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Professor of the Faculty of Law in Novi Sad and former president of the provincial government of Vojvodina, Bojan Pajtić, said in Iza vesti that the first thing that must be sought is “the return of Serbian policemen to the north of Kosovo.”
According to him, “we are certainly not smarter, we are certainly more anxious, like after every conference of the president”.
“I don’t see that any new circumstances have occurred, but we will probably find out in the coming days what is the background of what happened in Kosovo and Metohija. It seems to me that this time the regime in Serbia was taken aback by what happened. This time it seems that the regime in Belgrade had no knowledge that this would happen, that the regime in Belgrade, specifically Aleksandar Vučić, no longer controls the criminogenic structures in the north of Kosovo and Metohija, as it did before, even though they were an integral part Serbian lists. When I talk about criminogenic structures, that structure obviously has nothing to do with the regime in Belgrade, but it has to do with those who until yesterday were the darlings of the regime in Belgrade, if he did not know that, and I believe he did not, it is not in the interest of the Serbian regime, the international communities, primarily the West,”Behind the news” .
Kurti, points out Pajtić, “has an interest, because Kurti has practically shown a complete inflexibility so far”.
“One populist line that went to the extreme, I’m talking about that segment that did not want to ensure the formation of the ZSO, and now he is becoming someone who is a victim of attacks from the Serbian side,” he says.
Only Russia, he adds, “suits another focal point in Europe.”
“As Nagorno-Karabakh suits them. I do not claim that Russia encouraged, but when you look at the situation from the outside, who is in the interest of international actors, at this moment it is in the interest of only Russia”, believes Pajtić.
He is of the opinion that they “increase the tension because at that moment it brings them some daily political points, and when that happens, then they run away”.
“Part of the responsibility lies with Aleksandar Vučić, because he withdrew the Serbian police from Kosovo. It’s no secret that Serbs from the north of Kosovo have been massively buying real estate in Belgrade and Novi Sad for months, people have a premonition that this situation with the withdrawal of Serbian police forces from the north of Kosovo, with barricades, smells like some kind of new armed conflict, the responsibility lies with the Serbian regime, which he withdraws the Serbian police, encourages the barricades, then appeals for them to withdraw, rattles his weapons, guarantees people’s safety, but nothing is done to ensure it for them. I’m afraid, even if it stays like this, people who heard the shootings, who witnessed that situation, many who have the opportunity will leave the north of Kosovo. This is in Kurti’s favor, because the north of Kosovo will be demographically emptied,” he says.
The first thing that must be sought, he emphasizes, is the return of Serbian policemen to the north of Kosovo.
“Those who were encouraged to take off their uniforms and leave the KPS. That’s why we got into this situation, because Mr. Aleksandar Vučić never listens to anyone, except for public opinion research, and he’s only interested in the symbolism that can be seen, without any thought about what happens the next day,” says Pajtić.
According to Pajtić, Kurti shows “less flexibility than Vučić”.
“The prerequisite for anything to move forward is that the Serbs return to the KPS in the north of Kosovo, that the Serbian policemen are the ones who will secure the Serbian communities. “This would not have happened if the Serbs had not been withdrawn from the KPS for no reason at all, on a whim,” he says.
Pajtić believes that “there is no doubt that today Serbia’s position in the negotiations on the future of Kosovo is certainly significantly worse than it was until yesterday”.
“There is no doubt that it will be very difficult for Vučić to convince international negotiators that the incident was caused by people or forces with which he has nothing to do. The fact that they got out of his control is another matter,” Pajtić thinks.
From this situation, he believes, “there is neither left nor right”.
“Because Vučić himself took all the potential instruments out of the hands of Serbia itself, he has no instruments to influence the situation there except to ask for the return of the policemen. “Knowing the behavior of Kurti, who has shown himself to be an extreme populist in relation to Serbian-Albanian relations, he will only now use this position to exacerbate the situation and avoid dialogue,” he says.
He does not think that there will be special elections by the end of the year because “the situation is unpredictable”.
“We have entered a dangerous zone where we will see in the coming days that the situation will calm down, because imagine the fear and the atmosphere in which the Serbs live in the north of Kosovo, it is terrible to think about it, the tensions are huge, while the Serbian side that is there, an extremely minority party, unprotected, accused of terrorism, and the Serbian List whistles, anything can be expected, especially now that we see that Vučić is not in control of everything,” he says.
He also referred to the opposition’s “Agreement for Victory” .
“It’s important to show unity, they showed unity, maturity, got rid of animosities, that’s important, it seems to me that positive signals have arrived even from the right-wing opposition,” he says.
He believes that “today the opposition has a much more difficult task and a much more difficult starting position than in 2000”.
“In order for Koštunica to win, around 600,000 votes from minority communities were needed, today there is no such thing, today their parties are in a coalition with SNS, and the presidents of their home states are practically strategic partners of Vučić, in that sense we can hardly count on that body of votes “, says Pajtić.
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