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Ahtisaari should wait for formation of new government
Belgrade,
29 January 2007
Serbian Minister of Public Administration and Local Self-Government Zoran Loncar said that UN Special Envoy for talks on the future status of Kosovo-Metohija Marti Ahtisaari should wait for formation of the new government of Serbia, to present his draft solution for the future status of Kosovo-Metohija.
Zoran Loncar
In a statement to the news agency Tanjug, Loncar said that the request for a European country to discuss crucial issues of key importance, at a time when the government is not yet formed, is unprecedented.
Ahtisaari’s strategy of wishing to engage in talks only a few days following parliamentary elections, while the government has still not been formed, casts a shadow on the intentions and role played by the international mediator, said Loncar, commenting on Ahtisaari’s visit to Belgrade planned for February 2.
Expressing his conviction that Ahtisaari would most certainly have waited if it were any other European country in question, Loncar stressed that this rule and standard must be applied also to Serbia.
The Minister stressed that Ahtisaari did not consider it suitable to talk to Belgrade for more than six months on the future status of Kosovo-Metohija, adding that Ahtisaari seems to think that the right moment for holding talks is a few days after parliamentary elections while the government is yet to be formed.
Loncar added that the essential point here is that Ahtisaari’s document is not the result of talks with Belgrade, rather it is exclusively unilateral, and Belgrade has not participated in drafting it in any way.
Ahtisaari’s strategy of wishing to engage in talks only a few days following parliamentary elections, while the government has still not been formed, casts a shadow on the intentions and role played by the international mediator, said Loncar, commenting on Ahtisaari’s visit to Belgrade planned for February 2.
Expressing his conviction that Ahtisaari would most certainly have waited if it were any other European country in question, Loncar stressed that this rule and standard must be applied also to Serbia.
The Minister stressed that Ahtisaari did not consider it suitable to talk to Belgrade for more than six months on the future status of Kosovo-Metohija, adding that Ahtisaari seems to think that the right moment for holding talks is a few days after parliamentary elections while the government is yet to be formed.
Loncar added that the essential point here is that Ahtisaari’s document is not the result of talks with Belgrade, rather it is exclusively unilateral, and Belgrade has not participated in drafting it in any way.
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