Vuk Drašković expects Vučić to say a historic “NO” to Putin

The leader of the Serbian renewal movement and writer Vuk Drašković estimated that the year 1948, when Yugoslavia said a historic “no” to the Soviet Union, will repeat itself, and that the outcome will be the same.

“The risk that the current government would face if it decided to turn away from Russia and turn to the West is significantly smaller than the one that existed in 1948, when Tito said a historic ‘no’ to Stalin, and when all around Yugoslavia there was Stalin’s army, said Drašković, in the show “Half an hour of Demostat” (Pola sata Demostata).

In the show in which he spoke about Serbia’s foreign policy, Serbia’s relationship with Russia and the EU, the solution to the Kosovo issue, as well as his new book “Scars of Life”, Drašković, in response to the statement that Aleksandar Vučić said in 2019 “never again in 1948”, said that “1948 will repeat and the outcome will be the same.”

“If (Aleksandar Vucic) decides to do this historically no, there will be no risk. Those who are beating under the church banners, it would wear off quickly, because after all, this nation is not a nation that has no sense, that has no historical experience and memory, it just needs to be reminded a little,“ Draskovic said.

Draskovic said it was only necessary to open the media and tell the people the truth about what is happening in Ukraine, about the crimes that Putin’s government is committing in Russia, and to remind of the crimes in the region that took place in the ’90s.

“No March 27 would ever happen again,” said Drašković, when asked whether, if Vučić radically turned Serbia towards the West, March 27 would repeat itself or the level of demonstrations as after the signing of the Brussels Agreement, with several thousand people.

He said that the German and French document for the solution of the Kosovo problem that is currently “on the table” is a new package of Ahtisaari’s plan for Kosovo.

He reminded that Ahtisaari, at the negotiations on the final status of Kosovo, which were held in Vienna in 2006 and 2007, and which he himself attended as head of diplomacy, imposed a final status solution, which did not foresee the formal recognition received from Serbia, and which were accepted by everyone until the very end.

However, when the vote was due, Russia tried to trade and requested that Abkhazia, Ossetia, and Transnistria receive the same status as Kosovo, which the West refused, after which the Russians said that Ahtisaari’s document could not be presented to the United Nations Security Council. because they will veto it.

“Since then, the public in Serbia has been misled by the story that the UN Security Council rejected Ahtisaari’s plan, but it didn’t, it was Russia that did it. We need to call things by their real names. Because Russia wanted to trade and to pursue some of its geostrategic interests on the Kosovo case, which was declared a unique case, he said.

Draskovic recalled that since 2006. he claims that Ahtisaari’s plan is a 98% outstanding solution for Serbia, and that Belgrade could have achieved improvement.

According to him, 95% of the citizens of Serbia are convinced due to false propaganda that the UNSC Resolution 1244 states that Kosovo is the heart of Serbia, and that NATO bombing is actually legalized by that resolution.

“Because of false propaganda, people think that the resolution protects and guarantees territorial integrity and sovereignty over Kosovo, but no, it took away Serbia’s integrity and sovereignty.” With that resolution, which was voted for by everyone in the SB, except for China, which abstained, the state of Serbia was declared a bandit state. The resolution was adopted according to the 7th chapter of the UN charter, according to which the international use of force is allowed against such states that threaten regional and world peace and commit crimes against their citizens,” said Drašković.

Draskovic said that the Brussels agreement represents, as he says, a milder variant of accepting Ahtisaari’s document, without mentioning Ahtisaari.

“The Brussels agreement does not recognise the sovereignty of Kosovo or declare Kosovo a state, but it does recognise the sovereignty of the Kosovo Constitution, Kosovo institutions and Kosovo authorities,” Draskovic said.

Speaking about the Association of Serbian municipalities (ZSO), Drašković said that the association of Serbian municipalities was foreseen in Ahtisaari’s plan, but that there was a lot of room for negotiations at that time because the foreseen powers, although already significant, could have been expanded.

“Unfortunately, I think by the Kremlin’s suggestion, the then President Tomislav Nikolic then undermined the Brussels agreement, that is, the Association of Serbian municipalities, by saying that the ZSO must be the new Republika Srpska (RS) and that was throwing salt in the eyes of Albanians and since then Albanians have been running from the ZSO in fear of getting RS,” Draskovic said.

Asked about the declaration on reintegration of Kosovo, adopted by right-wing parties and right-wing intellectuals and ideologists, Drašković said that he was convinced that the document was “rejuvenated by new forces of the old Kosovo Serb intellectual elite from the nineties”, conceived in the Kremlin these days.

He said the declaration was a dishonorable proclamation inviting Serbia to a new war.

“It is clear that the West is trying in every way not to get to conflict, war in the Balkans, and Russia is eager to come to a war, given how talented we are to go ignite quickly, and thus facilitate the destruction of the state of Ukraine,” he said.

Regarding the statement that in the 1990s, when he was the leader of the opposition, the opposition parties were mostly right-wing, but that it was mostly pro-Western right, while today it is pro-Russian, Drašković says that this happened because of the “lobotomy over the Serbian people” that was carried out after the fall of Milosevic, when anti-Western propaganda began, which peaked in the last seven or eight years.

Draskovic also said that he had good relations with Sergei Lavrov and that he believed that he was the greatest diplomat and foreign minister in the world.

“He is a wonderful, educated man, smart, but he is now brought into the function of serving a project for which, I am convinced, he has no understanding, but he is now in the position of the devil’s advocate,” said Draskovic.

Speaking about his new book, the autobiography “The Scars of Life”, Drašković said, among other things, that, that after King Aleksandar and General Mihailovic, he is the most slandered man in Serbia because of the truth./Nova.rs/