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Same agenda should be applied both for Belgrade and Pristina at Vienna meeting

Belgrade, 29 August 2007

Advisor to the Serbian Prime Minister Aleksandar Simic said today that Serbia will be optimistic about the continuation of negotiations on the future status of Kosovo-Metohija if the same agenda is applied both for Belgrade and Pristina at tomorrow’s meeting with the Contact Group’s mediation team.

Aleksandar Simic

Author: Tanjug

Simic, a part of Belgrade’s eight-member delegation, told Beta news agency that if the agenda is identical and if the next meeting takes place in September, that will mean that things are going in the right direction and optimism is to be expected. He announced that the Serbian delegation will present its position tomorrow in Vienna and explain the solution to the Kosovo problem and how to reconcile the two opposite requests of Pristina and Belgrade.

We will first request that the mediation team sets the date of the next meeting and the start of direct negotiations, Simic said and added that Belgrade will insist that a date is set.

Commenting on Kosovo’s interim Prime Minister Agim Ceku that Slovenian Prime Minister Janez Jansa promised him that during Slovenian EU presidency Slovenia will lobby for Kosovo’s independence, Simic said that such news causes unrest and is a warning.

If someone wants to encourage Albanian separatists in Kosovo-Metohija one-sidedly and is doing that on behalf of the EU, they neither wish good to the EU nor the region, Simic warned.