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The Government of the Republic of Serbia

In the service of citizens

Written statement by Bajram Kosumi

Belgrade, 19 May 2005

The Serbian government has received a written statement from the office of Kosovo-Metohija Prime Minister Bajram Kosumi. The Serbian government’s official web site brings the full text of the statement:

Bajram Kosumi

The statement by the Kosovo Prime Minister:

The office of the Prime Minister of Kosovo, Mr Bajram Kosumi, received yesterday a request for a meeting from the office of the Prime Minister of Serbia, Mr Vojislav Kostunica.

Regarding this invitation, the Prime Minister of Kosovo has made the following statement:

I welcome the wish and willingness of the Prime Minister of Serbia, Mr Kostunica, to meet and talk with the Prime Minister of Kosovo.

I want to stress once again that I am ready to meet with Mr Kostunica to talk about the existing problems between our two countries and the progress in the commenced technical dialogue.

My country, the new Kosovo, free and democratic, wishes to have good neighbourly relations with Serbia. We have now established good relations with all the neighbouring countries. All the countries in the region, as well as the European countries, have been expressing the growing understanding for the new processes in Kosovo.

Especially with Serbia, we must talk about unresolved problems inherited from the difficult past. Kosovo, but I believe Serbia as well, wish to be democratic countries, integrated into the European family. These are reasons enough to promote good neighbourly relations and to establish the policy of peace between the two countries.

Also, towards building good neighbourly relations between our two countries, I am looking forward to a clear signal from the Serbian Prime Minster to those Serb politicians who are boycotting the Kosovo institutions to take part in them.

Having in mind the deciding role of the international community in Kosovo, the assistance that this community is offering in arranging a meeting between me and Mr Kostunica is in everyone’s interest.

Welcoming once again the readiness of the Prime Minister of Serbia to meet with the Prime Minister of Kosovo, I wish to express my conviction and the conviction of my Government that such a meeting must be coordinated by both sides and that a suitable date, place, and topics for the talks should be found based on the protocol. The Government of Kosovo will take all necessary steps in this direction to see that the meeting is actually productive.