Vulin: We are not asking for RS in Kosovo

“This is not RS, we do not want foreign affairs, army and all that RS had according to the Dayton Agreement,” Vulin said in Prizren and added that Serbia wants Serbs in Kosovo to be able to live safely and in the way they want. U.S. Ambassador in Belgrade Michael Kirby stated on Tuesday that the U.S. does not want a new RS in Kosovo because the model did not turn out to be a good solution for the development of Bosnia-Herzegovina. “Do not blame us for RS, you made it yourselves. Do not be dissatisfied with your own work and do not prevent our attempts to help people living in Kosovo,” Vulin said on this occasion. On Wednesday, Vulin visited the Prizren Theological Seminary and Milica Djordjevic, the only Serb primary school pupil in the city. During the day, Vulin will visit the village of Vraniste in the Gora municipality, 25 kilometres from Prizren which is home to Goranis, and have talks with representatives of the local self-government. Vulin:Gorani with other Serb municipalities in Kosovo Director of the Serbian government Office for Kosovo-Metohija Aleksandar Vulin informed the municipal leadership of Gora on Wednesday that the Belgrade delegation requested in Brussels that the Gorani problem should be resolved together with other municipalities in Kosovo where Serbs constitute the majority population. “I won the support of Gora's representatives for this and the Goranis want to stay where they always were, with Serbia as the country they did not abandon even at the most difficult of times,” Vulin said. In the village of Vraniste in the Gora municipality, Vulin told the Goranis that the government will not stop caring for them and that it would stay with its people. “The Goranis were often exposed to attempts of assimilation and many are trying to deny them the right to the Gorani identity and existence as such,” Vulin said and added that Gora and the Goranis were mentioned in Brussels not as a problem but as the stand of the association of Serb municipalities. “We want Gora to be a part of the association of Serb municipalities and Gora wants this too,” the director of the Office for Kosovo said. He underscored that the association of Serb municipalities is open to all who want to become a part of it and underscored that every municipality in Kosovo can become a member of the association if it accepts the basic values and the structure of the association. “The Goranis demonstrated that they care for Serbia and the ties with Serbs,” he underscored and added that the association of Serb municipalities is an open proposition which has been accepted in Gora. Vulin noted that 880 students are attending classes in six high schools and one primary school in Gora according to the programme provided by the Serbian Ministry of Education. Serbia's institutions have always been here and they will stay in the area so as to provide assistance through the healthcare and education systems and social protection, Vulin said and added that Gora is home to over 300 beneficiaries of social assistance provided by they Republic of Serbia without which life in the municipality would not be possible.