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Serbia ready to solve Kosovo issue

Belgrade/Bratislava, 9 November 2006

Serbian Minister of Education and Sport Slobodan Vuksanovic stated today in Bratislava that Serbia is ready to solve Kosovo issue in line with international law, the UN Charter, international conventions and the Serbian Constitution.

Vuksanovic is taking part in a two-day conference in Bratislava themed "A Dialogue between the Orthodox Church and the European Peoples' Party and European Democrats". On the first conference day he addressed guests from Europe and spoke about creating a new European space through solidarity between religion and politics.

According to the Minister's statement to the Tanjug news agency, in his speech he said that Serbia's new Constitution and the Law on churches and religious communities have brought churches back on the public scene and have given them the status of completely free and autonomous public communities of special importance to citizens and the state.

The Minister also said Serbia is ready to conclude an historic agreement with ethnic-Albanians regarding their joint life in a democratic state, as well as agree on making joint efforts towards EU accession.

This agreement is only possible if it is adopted freely and if both sides accept it. It also must be useful both for Serbs and ethnic-Albanians in Kosovo, as well as for other people living in the province, stressed Vuksanovic who is taking part in the international conference as the Serbian Prime Minister's envoy.

This is the only way to ensure peace and stability in the entire region because otherwise we would face a long period of insecurity, instability and opportunities to extend problems and incidents to the whole of Southeast Europe and the surrounding region, stressed Vuksanovic.

Participants in the two-day conference are also the Greek and Croatian Prime Ministers, Romanian Deputy Prime Minister, Macedonian foreign affairs minister, Belgrade Archbishop Stanislav Hocevar and bishops of Backa, Lipljan and Branicevo, Irinej, Teodosije and Ignatije respectively.