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Draskovic, Olmert, Livni discuss Kosovo issue

Belgrade/Jerusalem, 6 November 2006

Following a meeting with Serbian Foreign Affairs Minister Vuk Draskovic, Israeli Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni stated that Israel is in favour of a compromise solution to Kosovo's future status acceptable to both sides.

Tzipi Livni and Vuk Draskovic

Draskovic said it is necessary that the ethnic Albanian majority in Kosovo-Metohija acknowledges and respects the UN Charter.

If this is achieved, then a compromise is also feasible, stated Draskovic at a joint press conference.

He also said that if Albanian leaders in the southern Serbian province give up on their request to found another Albanian state on Serbia's territory, the doors to permanent peace and stability in the Balkans could be opened.

Draskovic said he thinks that peace and stability are attainable if the international community takes a firm stand that everyone, including the Albanians, must respect the UN Charter and its fundamental principle on territorial integrity of states.

Draskovic and Livni signed an agreement on abolishing visas for official and diplomatic passport holders and a protocol on cooperation between the Serbian and Israeli foreign ministries.

Livni said she is pleased that the two countries are becoming stronger this way.

The Serbian Foreign Minister also met with Israeli Prime Minister Ehmud Olmert in Jerusalem and talked with him about bilateral cooperation and the solution to the future Kosovo status.

Draskovic also met with head of the Likud party and leader of parliamentary opposition Benjamin Netaniyahu and then laid a wreath at the Yad Vashem memorial centre.

Draskovic will meet today with Israeli Deputy Prime Minister Shimon Peres and afterwards give an interview to the Israeli daily Jerusalem Post. He will also talk with Director of the Simon Wiesenthal Institute Efraim Zuroff.

The Serbian Foreign Minister is also to meet with Patriarch of the Greek Orthodox Church in Jerusalem Theopolis III and president of the Serbian-Israeli friendship group Avigdor Lieberman. He will afterwards hold a lecture themed "Serbs and Jews".