Petkovic: Community of Serb Municipalities (ZSO) will never be a non-governmental organization

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Director of the Office for Kosovo and Metohija Petar Petkovic said today that the Community of Serb Municipalities (ZSO) will never be a non-governmental organization, a framework where representatives of certain Western offices in Pristina would like to place it.

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According to him, what it is the most concrete framework and guarantor for the preservation of collective and individual rights, as well as the negotiated executive powers for Serbs in Kosovo and Metohija in the most important social, economic, political, cultural, developmental, economic and security issues, the Office said in a statement.

"The Community of Serb Municipalities represents the only mechanism for the survival of the Serb people in Kosovo and Metohija, and the refusal of Pristina to fulfill this obligation from the dialogue for a full 10 years directly enabled Albin Kurti to carry out terror, persecution and escalation against the Serb people," said Petkovic.

He added that as such, all agreements about the Statute of the ZSO and the already established powers of the Serb people in Kosovo and Metohija, according to the agreements from 2013 and 2015, must be in accordance with the Constitution of the Republic of Serbia, the Charter of the United Nations and Resolution 1244 of the UN Security Council, which President of Serbia Aleksandar Vucic clearly and unequivocally said to international officials to their faces several times, including the last meeting in Brussels with European leaders.

"For us, the Constitution of the Republic of Serbia is sacred, and Resolution 1244 of the UN Security Council is still in force in Kosovo and Metohija, and no media conferences, nor references to so-called Kosovo Constitutional Court, which has no credibility outside of individual cabinets or foreign embassies, can suspend or cancel it," he said.

Petkovic noted that the ZSO, with concrete and clearly defined powers for the Serb people, was negotiated more than 10 years ago in Brussels, and not a single statement, nor someone's wish list, can cancel what was guaranteed by the entire European Union and what representatives of Belgrade and Pristina put their signatures on.

He pointed out that those who do not want to respect agreements, but also international law, should not even consider unilaterally suspending all valid agreements from Brussels reached between 2013 and 2015, which clearly define the powers of the ZSO, and should not even think of canceling all the previous results of the dialogue.

"Unfortunately, we are witnessing that fact force does not care about international law, but we cannot and will never give up on facts and principles," he said.

He stressed that it should be clear to everyone that President Vucic has never reacted to pressure, no matter from which side it came and no matter how forceful they were, and that he will continue to fight strongly for the interests of the Serb people and for peace in Kosovo and Metohija.

(Telegraf.rs)