| Vojvodina politician "ready to pay price" |
| 27 October 2009 | 13:56
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PANČEVO --
LSV leader and MP Nenad Čanak says all the talk about the draft Vojvodina statute is just another way to divert attention from "the plundering" of the province.
Čanak spoke in a forum in Pančevo to add that Vojvodina "will be respected only as much as it's able to articulate its own demands".
“We must fight for what we want. For that you must pay the price and I am ready to pay any price but blood,” Čanak said.
He was also quoted as saying that "the Belgrade centralists" are continuing to "rob Vojvodina constantly imposing new excuses".
“And there is no man good enough to make as much money as an average thief can steal. And we're not dealing with run-of-the-mill thieves – these are experts,” Čanak continued.
Director of the Center for Regionalism Aleksandar Popov was also present at the forum where he was heard saying that centralism “never left the heads” of the political elite in Serbia.
“Why don’t they give Vojvodina essential autonomy so the Kosovo Albanians could see what they were missing?” Popov asked.
Sociologist Janja Beč said "there is evidence all over Vojvodina" of "incredible proportions of destruction and plundering" of this province.
Political expert Jovan Komšić said that ignoring Vojvodina is not in the best interest of the leader of the Democratic Party and Serbian president Boris Tadić, "who won the elections thanks to Vojvodina’s voters".
He said that the Serbian Constitution "should be changed" in order to create conditions for essential autonomy in Vojvodina, because the current Constitution "makes only a facade of autonomy possible”.
All these speakers were in attendance at the forum organized by the Independent Association of Journalists of Vojvodina, and supported by the American NED foundation.
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