“Some need my legitimacy to be examined … . Let’s have a referendum,” says Aleksandar Vucic.
(AA Archive)
Serbia’s president signaled a potential referendum for the Ohrid Settlement for the normalisation of relations between Serbia and Kosovo.
Aleksandar Vucic’s remarks got here on Sunday after a number of opposition events requested {that a} referendum be held to ask residents whether or not the European Union-facilitated settlement must be used as a facilitator of the Belgrade-Pristina Dialogue.
Vucic mentioned that if the opposition is asking for his legitimacy to be examined in a referendum, he’s prepared for it.
”A few of them need my legitimacy to be examined. They need to agree on it. I’m prepared for something. They need a referendum. Do I’ve assist or not? Let’s have a referendum,” he mentioned.
The opposition has additionally requested {that a} session of parliament be held for a dialogue on the difficulty of Kosovo.
”Do they need me within the parliament? Not an issue. So long as they don’t foment violence once more. I’m all the time prepared for all the things. We simply have to discover a time slot,” mentioned Vucic.
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Normalisation proposal
Serbia and Kosovo reached an settlement on February 27 to signal a proposal to normalise ties after a gathering in Brussels.
The settlement got here after 12 hours of talks between Vucic, Albanian Prime Minister Albin Kurti and EU officers.
The events later agreed on find out how to implement the deal within the final spherical of talks on March 18 in North Macedonia.
The 11-point settlement calls for that the perimeters preserve good neighbourly relations and recognise one another’s paperwork akin to passports and license plates.
Launched in 2011, the EU-led Belgrade-Pristina Dialogue goals to discover a mutually agreeable resolution for disputes within the framework of a legally binding settlement.
The EU requires Kosovo and Serbia to achieve a ultimate settlement and resolve disputes to progress of their integration into the bloc.
Most UN member states, together with the US, UK, France, Germany and Türkiye, recognised Kosovo as a separate nation after it declared independence from Serbia 15 years in the past. Serbia, nevertheless, continues to treat it as its territory.
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