The head of the Party of Democratic Action (SDA) Sandzak Sulejman Ugljanin said on Wednesday said that his party representatives at the round table discussion between Serbia’s regime and opposition suggested that the Sandzak region was a separate political-territorial unit, the Beta news agency reported.

Ugljanin told reporters his party insisted on what was in the SDA Sandzak platform about the organisation of the elections for the regional institutions, and the definition of united media space in Sandzak.

The region, officially called Raska, is a historical geopolitical area in South-Western Serbia, divided by the border between Serbia and Montenegro, with a majority Bosniak population.

“If our suggestions are incorporated in Serbia’s electoral system, we will take part in the elections… In case they are not, we won’t allow the Serbian hawks to organise political and other kinds of violence in this area,” Ugljanin said.

He added he hoped that the European Union, UN, international community and ‘normal (political) forces’ in Serbia would have an understanding and that the Sandzak citizens would finally get power in the region “where they are native people.”

“Every statement that the Bosniaks are Serbia’s minority fits the context of a genocidal policy against the Bosniaks in the Balkans. We are native people in Sandzak,” Ugljanin said.

Earlier in the week, he wrote a letter to outgoing US ambassador to Serbia Kyle Scott, telling him that America was the backbone of the Sandzak Bosniaks and thanked him for what he did for the region during his mandate.