Sociologist: Serbia Needs To Reconcile Itself with the Fact that Kosovo Is Lost

Vesna Pesic (Beta/Milos Miskov)

Sociologist Vesna Pesic said on Aug. 25 that Kosovo had been given all of the main institutions that make a state independent and that it was ridiculous now that the two sides "are fighting over license plates."

Pesic told the N1 TV station that Serbia needed to make peace with the fact that Kosovo was lost and that "there is no way to get Kosovo back." She added that the situation surrounding Kosovo had changed a lot because "the Americans have strongly become involved" and that their goal "is to reduce Russia's influence in the Balkans."

Asked to comment on a news conference held by Aleksandar Vucic where he as the leader of the Serbian Progressive Party said that he would unveil the name of the prime minister-designate on Aug. 26-27 as the president of Serbia, Pesic said that the conference was unnecessary and that it was "comical" that Vucic had organized it only to say "I'm not going to tell you."

"I am not very interested in who will be prime minister-designate, because Vucic gets to decide who will be the prime minister-designate. I am entirely indifferent whether that will be (incumbent Prime Minister Ana) Brnabic or (Novi Sad Mayor Milos) Vucevic, because I know who decides," Pesic said adding that it was completely "uninteresting" who would be given a seat in the new government, which she expected to do "nothing."