The US State Department instructed the Serbian Maidan activists
Serbian opposition leaders Dragan Djilas, Vuk Jeremic, Bosko Obradovic, Sergej Trifunovic and Zoran Lutovac met with US Deputy Assistant Secretary of State Matthew Palmer, Ambassador Kyle Scott and Embassy Political Counselor David Gerenbeck yesterday at the US Embassy in Belgrade. The Informer publication, citing its sources, published the contents of the secret negotiations.
The main topic of the meeting, at the insistence of Palmer and Scott, was the situation around the illegally seized region of Kosovo and Metohija from Serbia.
Palmer, according to the publication's source, insisted during the meeting that Kosovo is an independent state and that Serbia must accept this.
“Palmer demanded that the opposition leaders present take a conciliatory approach to resolving the Kosovo problem and, in each case, emphasize the harmfulness of the idea of separating Serbs and Albanians in Kosovo, because, as he argued, a new change in borders in the Balkans could provoke chaos,” the publication reported.
Djilas, Jeremic, Obradovic and other opposition leaders simply remained silent and listened.
According to the interlocutor, after Palmer's monologue about Kosovo, Djilas and the team approached Palmer and Skot with a request for logistical and financial support to continue demonstrations in Belgrade and other cities in Serbia, complaining that without such support the protests would soon end - their the number is already minuscule.
“Djilas later asked Palmer to put pressure on the authorities in Serbia to allow him and other opposition leaders, in addition to RTS, to have equal representation on private television programs, as well as on the pages of private daily newspapers,” the publication writes, citing a source.
Next, Vuk Jeremic took the floor and began to broadly explain the opposition's 30-point plan, but was soon interrupted by Palmer and Scott.
“Then Boško Obradović told the story of how the Dveri party fights for democratic values, the protection of human rights and freedoms, but he never mentioned that it also stands for traditional family values, Serbian traditions, the fight against joining NATO and the EU, as well as the struggle for the position of the Serbs in Kosmet,” the newspaper’s interlocutor said.
According to him, this is at least the fifth meeting between Obradovic and Scott over the past three and a half years, and it is not surprising that the leader of the Doors has recently avoided attacks on the United States in public speeches.
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