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Talks on Kosovo status, decentralisation should be simultaneous
Belgrade/Brussels,
12 April 2006
Head of the Coordinating Centre for Kosovo-Metohija Sanda Raskovic-Ivic said yesterday in Brussels that she met with EU and NATO officials and acquainted them with Belgrade's position that the talks on Kosovo status should begin as soon as possible and go parallel with talks on decentralisation.
Sanda Raskovic-Ivic
Author:
Tanjug
Raskovic-Ivic pointed out that the officials in Brussels welcomed the position of Belgrade authorities. The EU's viewpoint is that all solutions should result from dialogue and agreement between Belgrade and Pristina, she added.
According to Raskovic-Ivic, NATO representatives are primarily concerned with security issues and further engagement of their troops in the province and do not think about Kosovo independence.
Until the talks on the province's status begin, decentralisation issues as well as church, cultural and economic ones cannot be resolved, stressed Raskovic-Ivic.
Raskovic-Ivic said that it was agreed that decentralisation talks should finish as soon as possible in order to start that process and added that not only that it would allow Serbs to return to the province but would also make conditions for Serb involvement in municipal and provincial institutions.
The head of the Coordinating Centre for Kosovo-Metohija met in NATO’s headquarters with Alliance’s member in the Contact Group for Kosovo-Metohija James Perdue and in the EU Council with advisor of EU’s High Representative for Common Foreign and Security Policy Fernando Gentilini.
Raskovic-Ivic met in the European Commission with head of the Directorate General for Enlargement Michael Leigh, director of the Directorate for the Western Balkans Reinhard Priebe and foreign policy advisor to the EU Enlargement Commissioner Heather Grabbe.
According to Raskovic-Ivic, NATO representatives are primarily concerned with security issues and further engagement of their troops in the province and do not think about Kosovo independence.
Until the talks on the province's status begin, decentralisation issues as well as church, cultural and economic ones cannot be resolved, stressed Raskovic-Ivic.
Raskovic-Ivic said that it was agreed that decentralisation talks should finish as soon as possible in order to start that process and added that not only that it would allow Serbs to return to the province but would also make conditions for Serb involvement in municipal and provincial institutions.
The head of the Coordinating Centre for Kosovo-Metohija met in NATO’s headquarters with Alliance’s member in the Contact Group for Kosovo-Metohija James Perdue and in the EU Council with advisor of EU’s High Representative for Common Foreign and Security Policy Fernando Gentilini.
Raskovic-Ivic met in the European Commission with head of the Directorate General for Enlargement Michael Leigh, director of the Directorate for the Western Balkans Reinhard Priebe and foreign policy advisor to the EU Enlargement Commissioner Heather Grabbe.
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