Serbian analyst Dusan Janjic, in an interview with the public broadcaster, said that Serbia has de facto recognized Kosovo and that the attack in Banjska on September 24, 2023 has ruined everything.
Regarding the Association of Serb-majority Municipalities, Janjic told “RTK” that it was poorly presented.
Janjic assessed that the dialogue for normalization between Kosovo and Serbia has lost its political content and has been reduced to formal meetings without results. Although, according to him, the dialogue is fundamentally blocked, in Serbia’s relations with Kosovo many key issues have already been effectively resolved.
“In this process, Serbia has de facto recognized Kosovo. This is included in the agreements and documents. The narrative of ‘non-recognition’ serves only for internal use. Belgrade has nothing more to offer, with the attack on Banjska everything has been surrendered,” said Janjic.
However, according to Janjic, key political problems remain unresolved. He believes that the Association of Serb-majority Municipalities was wrongly established from the beginning and cannot offer a sustainable solution.
“The association of municipalities with a Serbian majority, in this form, is not feasible. Kosovo is already decentralized and the ethnic model represents a political failure. Without a clear institutional status and real protection of the rights of the Serbian community, Kosovo does not have a serious path towards the Council of Europe. There are models, and Kurti has even mentioned the Croatian model as acceptable for minority self-government,” Janjic stressed.
Janjic estimates that the dialogue, in its current format, cannot be revived without a fundamental change in approach, which is why the normalization process has remained blocked, without any real progress.
“The year 2025 was spent with coffee instead of dialogue. What the new facilitator is doing now is a bureaucratic attempt to revive something that cannot be revived, in this form,” Janjic underlined.