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There will be no imposed or one-sided solution to Kosovo-Metohija
Belgrade,
3 November 2005
Advisor to the Serbian Prime Minister Slobodan Samardzic said in a statement for today’s issue of the weekly Evropa that when it comes to talks on the future status of Kosovo-Metohija “we should expect all kinds of proposals and even some pressure” but that “there will be no imposed or one-sided solution”.
Slobodan Samardzic
It is essential that the Serbian side is unanimous and steadfast, Samardzic said adding that the Serbian platform has been passed to the parliament for adoption. It will most probably be adopted in the form of a resolution, and the Serbian viewpoint of the future Kosovo status is represented in a document that top government officials adopted last summer after several meetings, added Samardzic.
“I would freely say this document could be the institutional and legal framework of Kosovo’s essential autonomy, and we will soon find out what kind of guidelines for negotiation the Contact Group will set”, said Samardzic.
The Contact Group has up until now operated on three principles, namely that “there will be no going back to the 1990s’ state of affairs, no division of Kosovo-Metohija and no accession of the province to one of the neighbouring countries”, he said.
Special guarantees for national minorities are being added to these principles of late, he added and pointed out that Serbia has no objection to these principles, but it has to be underlined that to prevent the separation of Kosovo means to prevent the separation of Serbia as well.
Otherwise, the basic international principles of state sovereignty and territorial integrity would be threatened, which the Contact Group certainly has in mind, he concluded.
“I would freely say this document could be the institutional and legal framework of Kosovo’s essential autonomy, and we will soon find out what kind of guidelines for negotiation the Contact Group will set”, said Samardzic.
The Contact Group has up until now operated on three principles, namely that “there will be no going back to the 1990s’ state of affairs, no division of Kosovo-Metohija and no accession of the province to one of the neighbouring countries”, he said.
Special guarantees for national minorities are being added to these principles of late, he added and pointed out that Serbia has no objection to these principles, but it has to be underlined that to prevent the separation of Kosovo means to prevent the separation of Serbia as well.
Otherwise, the basic international principles of state sovereignty and territorial integrity would be threatened, which the Contact Group certainly has in mind, he concluded.
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