Pristina has usurped what Belgrade pays loans in the hundreds of millions of euros for

One of the most difficult issues in the negotiations between Belgrade and Pristina, the property issue, has come to the table in Brussels and both parties are demanding the right, but the material evidence is on the side of Serbia.

From what Pristina has usurped, Belgrade continues to regularly repay hundreds of millions of euros worth of loans, and the value of the private property of Serbs fighting for what was taken from them in front of Kosovo institutions is also measured in millions.

The lake on which most of Kosovo’s economy and population depend: Some 800,000 inhabitants of the province drink water from Gazivoda, and almost half of the north get electricity from the Gazivoda hydroelectric plant. Without that water, the Obilić thermal power plant could not function. Belgrade produces water and energy, and Pristina only delivers it to consumers and collects revenue.

Ljubisa Mijacic, an expert on environmental resources, says the only real solution is to split production and distribution, where Belgrade would absolutely control production and Pristina would distribute distribution.

“Even in such market conditions where one party buys and the other sells, both parties lose if there is no common interest, not even a financial one. This would provide a market mechanism for reconciliation and the creation of economic cooperation between Pristina and Belgrade in the long term and thus would create conditions for normalization in other fields, “says Mijačić for RTS.

The normalization of relations is also the objective of the negotiations in Brussels, where the issue of property in the province entered the agenda after seven years. About 60 percent, according to the Office for Kosovo and Metohija, belong to the Republic of Serbia, its citizens and the Serbian Orthodox Church.

Marko Đurić, Director of the Office for Kosovo and Metohija, says the concept of property talks is still being considered.

And when the concept is adopted, negotiations will take place on Brezovica, the Sharr Mountains National Park, the airport, owned by EPS, Correos, Srbijasuma, Railways, everything that Pristina has unilaterally confiscated since 2008 and declared the so-called ownership. . Kosovo.

Dusko Celic, an assistant professor at the Kosovska Mitrovica-based Pristina Law School, believes that Serbia should insist on the restitution of state, public and social property.

He says that the introduction of an international mechanism should be insisted upon to let the Pristina authorities judge and execute these issues.

The exact value of Serbian properties in Kosovo and Metohija is unknown, but is measured in billions of euros. EMS and EPS assets in the province alone are worth nearly three billion.

(Kurir.rs/Tanjug/ RTS)

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