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Solana recognises there is no progress in Kosovo

Belgrade, 21 July 2005

Head of the Coordinating Centre for Kosovo-Metohija Nebojsa Covic has welcomed the assessment by EU High Representative for the Common Foreign and Security Policy Javier Solana that there is no progress in Kosovo because there is no security, decentralisation, or other steps towards achieving the standards.

Nebojsa Covic

Speaking at a press conference at the Coordinating Centre’s headquarters, Covic recalled that the country’s top officials held a meeting on Tuesday and decided that there are no conditions for Kosovo Serbs to enter the province’s provisional institutions.

The meeting was attended by Serbia-Montenegrin President Svetozar Marovic, Serbian President Boris Tadic, Prime Minister Vojislav Kostunica, Serbia-Montenegrin Minister of Foreign Affairs Vuk Draskovic.

Covic recalled that Kosovo Serb political leaders, after meeting Solana in Pristina, also decided not to take part in the institutions and to withdraw from the working groups.

According to Covic, it is clear at this moment that the ethnic-Albanian side is doing nothing. The proof of this is the fact that it has postponed the announced census of the population and the adoption of regulations concerning the restitutions of property of displaced persons.

Covic added that the postponement of the census until 2007, especially the announcement that a “pilot-census” will be held in October this year, is a “bad approach.”