Lutovac: Vucic Bought Time in Washington

Zoran Lutovac (BETAPHOTO/EMIL VAS)

Serbian Democratic Party leader Zoran Lutovac described on Sept. 14 the Washington agreement as unimportant for “peacebuilding and peacekeeping on a global scale, let alone regionally,” adding that the Nobel Peace Prize nomination of the U.S., Kosovo and Serbian governments, “is neither the first nor the last such absolutely unfounded nomination.”

“This agreement cannot, in any way, be treated as historical, except perhaps in terms of its originality, as the history of diplomacy has never seen a document such as this,” the Democrats’ leader said.

“The nomination is also original,” Lutovac added in response to a Swedish MP Magnus Jakobsson’s decision to nominate the U.S., Kosovo and Serbian governments for the Nobel Peace Prize following the meeting in the White House, “inasmuch the Serbian government has been nominated, along with a president who has no jurisdiction, nor had been authorized to sign any such a deal,” Lutovac told the Danas daily.

Lutovac believes that Serbia’s international credibility has been additionally undermined, “despite the feigning willingness to cooperate,” adding that on the home front with this sham Vucic had bought more time for his autocratic regime.