WASHINGTON AGREEMENT 2020.

Abstract

The President of the Republic of Serbia, Aleksandar Vučić, concluded with Avdullah Hoti, the Prime Minister of the so-called Kosovo, in the presence of the American President Donald Trump, on September 4, 2020, in Washington, an agreement called Economic Normalization (Washington Agreement). The contract was concluded in the usual form that was used in the 17th, 18th and 19th centuries and which academician Kosta Čavoški links to the Peace of Westphalia from 1648 and the intention of the contracting parties to avoid signing a joint document due to political, religious and practical reasons. The Washington Agreement is not an economic agreement, but a legally binding international agreement that enables the so-called Kosovo to submit an application for admission to the United Nations with a deferral period of one year, without opposition from Serbia. The Washington Agreement is not a political agreement because, according to academician Milan Barotsch, political agreements are agreements of cooperation, friendship and assistance that bind governments, not states. The Washington Agreement is contrary to international and domestic law. In the Washington Agreement, there is no reference to the legally binding UN Security Council Resolution 1244 from 1999, which stipulates several times that Kosovo and Metohija are part of the FRY (Serbia). The Washington Agreement contradicts the Constitution of the Republic of Serbia from 2006. The Washington Agreement has continuity with the unconstitutional and illegal First Agreement on Principles Governing the Normalization of Relations (Brussels Agreement). The Washington agreement is, in essence, a modified Ischinger plan from 2007. In a legal-historical sense, it is similar to the Secret Convention of 1881.