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March violence against Serbs in Kosovo-Metohija condemned in Lucerne

Belgrade, 22 May 2004

Advisor to the Serbian Prime Minister Aleksandar Simic, who is attending the Lucerne meeting dedicated to Albanians and their neighbours, said that the Serbian government's Plan for Kosovo-Metohija was accepted as one of necessary conditions for further stabilisation of the situation in the Balkans, but in the first place as one of prerequisites for creating a true multiethnic and multicultural Kosovo, as mandated by the Resolution 1244 of the United Nations Security Council.

Lucerne

Simic said that all participants in the roundtable meeting, organised by the US non-governmental organisation Project on Ethnic Relations, listened very carefully to the presentation of the Serbian government's Plan for Kosovo-Metohija, which envisages autonomy for Serbs in the province.

He said that the delegation of Kosovo Albanians had to reformulate their positions and accept the fact that the issue of Kosovo's decentralisation is legitimate. He added that Kosovo Albanians will soon starting working on the issue of decentralisation.

Simic said that the meeting in Lucerne, Switzerland, especially focused on problems caused by the March ethnic violence against Serbs in the province, adding that all participants in the meeting condemned in the harshest terms the pogrom of Serbs in Kosovo-Metohija.