No Agreement with the EU will be Signed
Commenting the demand of freshly reelected Boris Tadic to schedule the government session “without delay” (where Yellow ministers, with the help of their G17 Plus supporters and Raska Muslims intended to outvote Kostunica’s and Ilic’s ministers and bully the “government approval” for signing the deal offered by the EU), Serbian Prime Minister Vojislav Kostunica today announced that there will be no government session until the parliament reaches necessary decisions in the name of Serbian state, regarding both the EU offer and its intention to send an illegal mission to Serbia’s territory without the UN Security Council approval.
Prime Minister Kostunica said that the European Union has directly jeopardized Serbia’s sovereignty and territorial integrity with its decision to illegally send a mission to Kosovo-Metohija province, with the aim of implementing Ahtisaari plan of supervised independence in the province.
Serbian Government Deeply Divided Between Tadic’s Yellows and Serbs
“At the same time, the EU offered Serbia to sign the political agreement, which means that, with one move, it wants to snatch away 15% of Serbia’s territory, and with the other offer it a political agreement. I believe that every citizen of Serbia sees that this is unscrupulous blackmail and that by signing the offered political agreement Serbia would actually sign Kosovo independence.
“Therefore, it is necessary that Serbian parliament convenes immediately so that parliament members can make a declaration concerning the EU’s decision to send a mission to Kosovo-Metohija. Considering the fact that the EU has put Serbia’s territorial integrity and sovereignty in jeopardy, it is the constitutional duty of parliament speaker Oliver Dulic to call an urgent parliament session, before Albanian separatists, with the support of the EU and the US make a unilateral declaration of independence.
“In order to schedule a parliament session it is not necessary to consult the Serbian government, which is deeply divided regarding this question,” reads the statement by the Serbian Prime Minister.
No Question About the Laws, Constitution and Proper Procedures
Serbian Government sessions can only be scheduled by the Premier Vojislav Kostunica, and he will not call for a session until the parliament decides the state’s course towards the agreement offered by the EU and its planned mission. Article 52 of the Act regulating the government work expressly states that government session is scheduled by its president, in written form, 24 hours ahead of a start. The regulations do not allow a possibility for the vice premier-Bozidar Djelic, Tadic’s man-to call the session. He can only preside the already scheduled session in case the premier himself is unable to do so.
On the other hand “every international agreement with other countries, organizations and institutions must be ratified by the Serbian parliament,” International Law Professor Milan Paunovic told Vecernje Novosti.
“There isn’t a single reason why this temporary political agreement with the EU should be permitted to sideline the parliament ratification,” Paunovic said.
Commenting the remark that the document offered by the EU is not final, so it shouldn’t have to go through the same procedure in the Serbian parliament, Professor Paunovic said:
“It makes no difference how the documents are titled and framed - according to the internal laws and our Constitution, they must be ratified by the Serbian parliament.”
Therefore, Premier Kostunica is entirely within the constitutional rights to request an urgent session of the Serbian parliament and to refuse to allow a deeply divided government to approve the signing of agreement by simply outvoting the ministers who are against accepting the EU’s rotten carrot, before the parliament convenes.
A Spoonful of Sugar Helps the Poison Go Down
In an interview given to Tanjug on January 27, Serbian Minister for Kosovo and Metohija Slobodan Samardzic commented the agreement EU has decided to offer to Serbia in the proper terms: “This should actually be a spoonful of sugar Belgrade should swallow together with the poisoned pill of independence.”
He said that there were wrong “perceptions of Serbia’s strategy and incredible diplomatic naivety” on the Serbian political scene, which is most obvious through the example of an attitude towards the European Union. Even then-existing and visible disagreements within the government, comprised of ministers from Tadic’s Yellow camp and his supporters from the marginal political parties such as G17 Plus and Raska Muslim party, and the ministers belonging to Premier Kostunica’s alliance of Democratic Party of Serbia (DSS) and New Serbia (NS), Samardzic explained as the result of ignoring the facts and the idealized, dogmatic approach to joining the EU.
“If someone treats the EU as an ideological goal, just as the communism and [Yugoslav socialist] self-management were at some point, then that someone doesn’t care for the facts. This is a manifestation of a dogmatic consciousness that exists today, especially within the so-called civil sector. This sector, in total contradiction to its function, has become a dogmatic nest. The reflexions from it are also visible in the government,” said Samardzic.
Tadic’s and G17 Plus Ministers Gone Mad
He explained that some government members-and knowing their Yellow party-loyalties, we can easily guess which ones-reacted emotionally at the announcement that the signing of the agreement will be delayed, “which clearly demonstrates the irrationality of their drive.”
“We are witnessing tremendous amounts of political immaturity at work. If someone thinks that, by renouncing Kosovo-Metohija province, we shall safely ride into that bright European future, he doesn’t know the first thing about politics. On the contrary, if we renounce Kosovo and quietly accept the independence, we shall be forced to deal with Balkans’ borders for the next decade,” Samardzic said.
Unlike the immature, greedy, ignorant political dilettantes surrounding Boris Gump, Minister Samardzic fully understands that if Serbia wants to protect its right to Europe, it must protect its southern province of Kosovo: “Those two issues are simply inseparable, through the cause-and-effect ties. People tend to view it superficially and then say that, instead of the Europe, we’ll turn to the East, to China… Unbelievable!”
Back then, Minister Samardzic who is also Chair of the Board for Serbia’s International Affairs, confirmed that “the government will not allow the EU mission to be deployed to Kosovo-Metohija territory without the legal basis” and the approval of the UN Security Council.
Boris Gump and Olli Rehn Should Cry Together
The main problem right now is that Tadic, his supporters and ministers from his Yellow party are so eager to sign anything and everything the EU offers, that they are bullying both the government and the parliament, without any regard for the future of the state they are expected to serve, and to the point of causing the break-down of both the government and other key political institutions in the country.
Thankfully, Serbia is an actual state, with established institutions, democratic procedures and checks and balances in place, and not a banana republic where a wanna-be dictator gets to sign whatever flatters his ego when the right mood strikes. So, a handful of hysterical ministers headed by the non-Serbian president of Serbia will have to calm down eventually and accept the legal limitations to their assumed omnipotence.
Or they can go and cry together with Olli Rehn and Javier Solana.
Cartoon by Petrovic (Serbia)
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