Implementation of deal is “most important job”

BELGRADE Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) leader Cedomir Jovanovic says that the implementation of the Brussels agreement is the most important job for the country. He added that it “exceeds the role of the ruling coalition and the authorities”. Implementation of deal is “most important job” Jovanovic told reporters in the Serbian parliament on Wednesday that the problem with the Brussels agreement was not the fact that Kosovo Serbs did not support it but the lack of alternative policy that would accompany it. “They made the agreement in Brussels so they would consolidate their power and all problems we are facing are consequences of the fact that they reached the agreement by using (former Yugoslav President Slobodan) Milosevic’s methodology and that they did know what to do a day after they verified the agreement in parliament because there is no vision,” he stressed. According to the LDP leader, the Brussels agreement gives Serbia a new chance that the government is downplaying by calling for a referendum and separating the south and north of Kosovo. Jovanovic assessed that Kosovo Serbs were hostages of the policy that Belgrade had led for 20 years. “People in Kosovo are hostages and they need help, not what is now being offered as a recipe for the implementation of the agreement,” he noted and said he was sure that northern Kosovo Serbs were not thinking about a conflict with Belgrade. “The last thing we need is mutual conflicts and to make the importance of the agreement, which is crucial for the future of our society and every person in the country, relative,” the LDP leader explained. Commenting on First Deputy PM Aleksandar Vucic’s visit to Kosovo, Jovanovic said that “he has no business visiting Kosovo as an individual or as a deputy prime minister”. “He played his role in Brussels and here, in parliament, this is no longer a one-man mission. This state needs to come out before those people and take responsibility for everything it has done to them, for lies it poisoned them with and face the fact that they cannot change their clothes as fast as people did here. To them, Zvonko Veselinovic was a hero and Milos Obilic (a medieval Serb knight) two years ago, to us he was a criminal even back then,” the LDP leader concluded. Cedomir Jovanovic (Tanjug, file) Beta

Implementation of deal is “most important job”

Jovanović told reporters in the Serbian parliament on Wednesday that the problem with the Brussels agreement was not the fact that Kosovo Serbs did not support it but the lack of alternative policy that would accompany it.

“They made the agreement in Brussels so they would consolidate their power and all problems we are facing are consequences of the fact that they reached the agreement by using (former Yugoslav President Slobodan) Milošević’s methodology and that they did know what to do a day after they verified the agreement in parliament because there is no vision,” he stressed.

According to the LDP leader, the Brussels agreement gives Serbia a new chance that the government is downplaying by calling for a referendum and separating the south and north of Kosovo.

Jovanović assessed that Kosovo Serbs were hostages of the policy that Belgrade had led for 20 years.

“People in Kosovo are hostages and they need help, not what is now being offered as a recipe for the implementation of the agreement,” he noted and said he was sure that northern Kosovo Serbs were not thinking about a conflict with Belgrade.

“The last thing we need is mutual conflicts and to make the importance of the agreement, which is crucial for the future of our society and every person in the country, relative,” the LDP leader explained.

Commenting on First Deputy PM Aleksandar Vučić’s visit to Kosovo, Jovanović said that “he has no business visiting Kosovo as an individual or as a deputy prime minister”.

“He played his role in Brussels and here, in parliament, this is no longer a one-man mission. This state needs to come out before those people and take responsibility for everything it has done to them, for lies it poisoned them with and face the fact that they cannot change their clothes as fast as people did here. To them, Zvonko Veselinović was a hero and Miloš Obilić (a medieval Serb knight) two years ago, to us he was a criminal even back then,” the LDP leader concluded.