Boris Tadic, the Social Democrat Party's chairman and former Serbian president, stated that the current government bears a historical responsibility for the Kosovo issue and that he would not sign the Franco-German proposal. He said that the most absurd thing is that Vucic's power made peace in Kosovo.
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"If you take into account that the same options were in power in the nineties, of course, we can talk about historical responsibility," says Tadic, "the responsibility of this government for the position of Serbia today in the context of the solution to the Kosovo issue is great."
"Of course, I keep in mind that the people who were able to make a decision about this before the 1990s, and especially before the Constitution of 1974, bear the greatest historical responsibility. It is absurd that Kosovo has been lost in peace over the past decade. Serbia lost Kosovo in the war in the 1990s.
He asserts that "even though in our time the independence of Kosovo was officially declared, we managed to protect in peace what was not lost in the war only during our government." The fact that the so-called nationalist and patriotic forces were the least protective of patriotic interests while we, who were accused of treason, turned out to be the only truly patriotic option is either the historical paradox or the legality, depending on your point of view, Serbian media report.
Tadic responds that it would be irresponsible to answer this question "while we still do not know the final text that will be offered for signature" when "N1" asks him what he would do now that the European proposal is on the table, which Serbia must sign by the summer.
"I would not sign what I have seen thus far and what has been shown in public. And unlike other people, I don't say this in a derogatory manner; rather, I stand by my side because I refused to sign what this government later referred to as the Brussels Agreement.
He asserts that Serbia would have a much more difficult, if not impossible, time preventing Kosovo's membership in the United Nations if an agreement were to be signed within the framework that is being discussed in public and international circles.
"It is evident that this power has been aware of the demands that will be made of Serbia for at least a few months and has done nothing to stop them," I should remind you that Vucic did not once mention in his speech at the UN General Assembly in September that Serbia would not accept Kosovo's membership in the UN.
"And this was absolutely necessary because he knew right away that membership would be made a condition of the "five's" proposal. In historical circumstances in which it had the opportunity to make a turn through active politics, lobbying, and a strong diplomatic offensive, it is indisputable that this power accepted a passive attitude. The war in Ukraine is particularly connected to these circumstances. For Serbia, this meant the surrender of our legitimate national interests precisely on the issue of Kosovo, rather than a chance for a global revision of the Kosovo issue, which was also the root cause of this war. This power is more responsible for this than just signing the agreements in Washington and Brussels. And most importantly, "they will bear responsibility for the incomprehensible consequences of decades of propaganda, in which they brutally rewrote history in an attempt to blame our government," Tadic stated.