Brnabic: We're not waiting for European Parliament resolution to constitute Serbian National Assembly

Photo: Tanjug/Jadranka Ilic

Prime Minister of Serbia Ana Brnabic said today that a European Parliament resolution is not being awaited in order to constitute the new Serbian National Assembly and added that the elections held on December 17 were democratic and transparent.

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"The elections in Serbia are finished, they were democratic, transparent, fair. A little under 5,700 observers participated in those elections, of which 475 were foreign. As far as I could see, none of those foreign observers, not even those most critical of Serbia, said they saw something that represents an irregularity," said Brnabic, in response to a journalist who today in Belgrade asked her whether a European Parliament's resolution on the electoral conditions and process in Serbia is awaited before the constitution of the Assembly.

The prime minister specified that the biggest critics among foreign election observers said that they "heard that there were some irregularities" - but that they visited all the polling stations they wished to visit, and did not note or see any irregularities with their own eyes.

"As for the resolution of the European Parliament, I do not expect that it will be anything positive for Serbia, our people or our citizens. In this convocation, the European Parliament has adopted various resolutions about Serbia and in relation to Serbia, which were more than disastrous and spoke a lot to what this European Parliament represented," said Brnabic.

She assessed that the European Parliament did not respect international law, the principles of international law, the United Nations Charter, and even those agreements that were agreed on within the dialogue between Belgrade and Pristina, because they in every resolution  referrred to Serbia's autonomous province of Kosovo and Metohija as "the republic of Kosovo".

"Therefore, they did not respect the Brussels Agreement or any other agreements. When they talked about Kosovo, they did not use an asterisk, or a footnote, or anything that the European institutions are under obligation to do. Instead they were talking about blaming Serbia for belittling 'the constitutional order of the republic of Kosovo' and called on the five European Union member countries that did not recognize Pristina's unilaterally declared independence to do so immediately," said Brnabic.

Defense Minister Milos Vucevic, who together with Brnabic answered journalists' questions at the Serbian Army barracks in Topcider, Belgrade today, said that as far as he was concerned the elections are over.

"As far as I, as the leader of the SNS am concerned, the elections ended on December 17, that is, on December 30 and January 2, when they were repeated in some places. The elections have long been over. On January 12, the Election Commission declared the elections officially over, so the deadline for the verification of the mandates, i.e. the constitution of the National Assembly, is running," said Vucevic.

He assessed that it is neither legally nor politically relevant what others have to say about it.

"That may be interesting to someone, but it is not relevant. It's neither legally, nor, above all, politically relevant when it comes to the constitution of the new convocation of the National Assembly of the Republic of Serbia," concluded Vucevic.

(Telegraf.rs/Tanjug)