"We expect proper civilizational reaction from international community regarding Visoki Decani"

Photo: TV Hram, Tanjug/Serbian government/Slobodan Miljevic

Prime Minister Ana Brnabic says that primarily economic issues would be on the agenda in Washington at the meeting scheduled for September 2.

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Ana Brnabic added that the meeting to which Belgrade and Pristina have been invited is a continuation of talks on economic topics that got interrupted. She recalled that previously there was talk of re-establishing the Belgrade-Pristina air route, but also of railway traffic.

"These are mostly economic topics that we have always called for and that President Aleksandar Vucic has always insisted on, not only in the talks with Pristina, but also within the little Schengen initiative. That is in the interest not only of Serbia and its citizens, but of the entire region," Brnabic remarked.

We expect proper civilizational reaction

The prime minister of Serbia said that she expects the international community to be clear not only in condemning the events around the Serbian Orthodox monastery of Visoki Decani (in Kosovo and Metohija), but also in preventing our cultural-historical-religious heritage from being put in jeopardy.

Photo: TV Hram

"I hope that all international actors, starting with UNESCO through the EU, will be clear not only in condemning, but also in preventing the undermining and endangering of our cultural-historical-religious heritage, and preserving it instead," the prime minister said

Brnabic stressed that this heritage is important not only to us, but to the whole world.

"I expect that there will be no debate about that and that it will be worked on in a way that is civilizationally correct," she said.

She added that this is an extremely difficult topic for us, because, after the destruction, burning and demolition of monasteries in the territory of Kosovo and Metohija in 2004, which are not only our cultural heritage, but heritage under the protection of UNESCO, this unfortunately continues 16 years later.

The new government will be the best possible

Prime Minister Ana Brnabic reiterated today that the question of the prime minister-designate is not one for her, but for the president of the Republic, who decides about it. However, she expressed confidence that the future government will be the best possible and even stronger and more efficient than the current one.

Asked when the composition of the new government will be known and whether she will be at its helm, Brnabic said that this is not a question for her, because she doesn't make that decision; instead, President of Serbia Aleksandar Vucic does because this is his constitutional power.

Photo: Tanjug/Tara Radovanovic

Brnabic pointed out that Serbia is facing extremely challenging days, in terms of the economy, since economic decline is evident in Europe and around the world, but also politically, because Vucic is facing difficult conversations regarding Kosovo and Metohija, as well as European integration and amendments to the Constitution that await the new assembly.

"It's very important that this decision is not made hastily, which the president doesn't want to do anyway. When you have the support of citizens the way President Vucic does, which was expressed in the elections, then it's not about being able to form a government in five minutes because you have so many MPs. It's an additional responsibility for the further path of the country, for the efficiency of the government, how the government will work, in a coalition or not," Brnabic told reporters in Senta during her visit to the Biospringer factory.

She added that everything that happens within constitutional deadlines is fine, since the current government is working hard every day and Serbia is not losing anything.

(Telegraf.rs)