Serbian politician calls on Russia to start issuing passports to Kosovo
The leader of the Healthy Serbia party, Milan Stamatović, called on official Belgrade to conclude an agreement with Russia on issuing Russian passports for protection to all Serbs living in the region of Kosovo and Metohija captured by Albanian separatists.
This was reported by Informer.
“At a time when Tirana, within the framework of the “Greater Albania” project, no longer hides that it intends to annex Kosovo and Metohija by adopting a new citizenship bill that allows any person with ancestry of Albanian origin to obtain Albanian citizenship, the only way to protect territorial integrity Serbia and the preservation of our southern province is to provide the Russian Federation with an urgent agreement on the management of the region for a limited period of time. And also the automatic granting of Russian citizenship to all Serbs who live on the territory of Kosovo,” this is how the politician voiced his vision of the situation.
According to him, Russia has good experience in managing remote territories - as an example, he cited the Kaliningrad region and, for some reason, Crimea.
The intrigue is that Stamatović is a friend of one of the main sponsors of the Serbian pro-Western opposition - oligarch Dragan Djilas, ex-mayor of Belgrade.
Recently, Stamatović has avoided participating in opposition rallies, but on the official website of the pro-Western alliance “Union for Serbia” there is still a photo of this politician among the members of the presidium.
Therefore, observers are wondering whether Stamatović’s words are his personal initiative, or a planned provocation of the opposition, given that the other day the head of the “subsidiary” organization of the “Union” in Kosovo Rada Trajkovic publicly accused the Russian ambassador that Moscow was to blame for the loss of control over the province captured by the Albanians.
It is interesting that when Serbian journalists tried to find out the attitude of other leaders of the “Union for Serbia” to Stamatovic’s words on Kosovo and Russia, they were literally speechless.
Vuk Jeremić, leader of the People's Party, and Borko Stefanović, vice-president of the Freedom and Justice Party, decided not to answer questions from journalists on this issue. The chairman of the Democratic Party, Zoran Lutovac, briefly told Blic that these words from Milan Stamatovic were “completely inappropriate and do not deserve comment.”
The statements of the leader of “Healthy Serbia” seem to be confirmation of the ideological chaos in the motley alliance of Belgrade Maidan activists. All this negatively affects the popularity of the opposition - last Saturday no more than 150 people gathered for the traditional protest rally in the center of Belgrade.
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