Radomir Dimic, founder of the Initiative for the European, Democratic and Multiethnic Kosovo has stated for Radio Free Europe that the elite in Belgrade can’t say it is not responsible and that Milosevic is guilty.

Dimic says that EULEX will bring stability to Kosovo and the region. "In my opinion, EULEX is a necessity, because UNMIK has become obsolete. I have been among the first to support EULEX and its expansion in the whole territory of Kosovo," says Dimic. On the Serb leaders in northern Kosovo that are resisting EULEX implementation, Dimic says that Serbia “should be liberated from people of the strong line that would want violence in Kosovo.”

He is hopeful that Serbs will integrate in the Kosovo institutions vertically and horizontally and convinced that the Ahtisaari Plan is a good guarantee for Serbs to live along their Albanian neighbors.

On what Kosovo institutions can do to integrate the Serb minority, Radic says that it should not be just declarative work or just the Ministry for the Returns. Integration should be the job of the whole government and Kosovo institutions. He says, “Kosovo has been de facto and now de jure independent and Kosovo Serbs need to understand this.”

On the influence of Belgrade on Kosovo Serbs, he says: "Belgrade elite can't say that we are not guilty, guilty is Milosevic. No.

 

In Kosovo extraordinary things happened. However, the Serb people that lived in Kosovo are responsible for a part of what happened to Kosovo Albanians.

Therefore, this is necessary, and not just a formal apology. Belgrade must offer Prishtina the apology in order to continue further. The state president should do this. The sooner this happens, the sooner the road will open for Serbia towards Europe, and to Kosovo Serbs towards Europe.”

Dimic further explains that his organization is working on a declaration of reconciliation, which it will very soon present to the parliamentary groups, the parliament, EULEX, and the most important foreign missions in Kosovo.