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Serbia ready to make concessions to Kosovo Albanians at upcoming talks in New York
New York,
27 September 2007
Serbian Foreign Minister Vuk Jeremic said late yesterday that Serbia is ready to make significant concessions to Kosovo Albanians at upcoming talks on the future status of Kosovo-Metohija.
File photo of Vuk Jeremic
Author:
Fonet
In an interview to Associated Press, Jeremic underlined that Serbia cannot negotiate about Kosovo's independence, but that everything else can be subject of negotiations.
Serbia is offering a comprehensive plan for substantial autonomy which entails free administration of Pristina institutions, said Jeremic who is taking part in the work of the UN Assembly General in New York.
He implied that Belgrade might remove the main obstacle in the negotiations, and that is its request to control the border with Kosovo-Metohija, since so far Belgrade has insisted to be in charge of customs and immigration issues as a sign of continuity of Serbia's sovereignty in Kosovo.
Asked whether authorities in Belgrade will hold their ground concerning the border between Kosovo-Metohija and Montenegro, Macedonia and Albania, Jeremic replied that the Serbian side proposes that the international community remains in the province.
Our platform implies quite wide self-government for the province. What we propose is that Belgrade remains in possession of several reserved rights, just some prerogatives defining the state’s sovereignty, explained Minister Jeremic.
He stressed that if the US or any other country should acknowledge the independence without the UN’s consent, Serbia will have no choice but to reconsider its relations with those entities.
Serbia is offering a comprehensive plan for substantial autonomy which entails free administration of Pristina institutions, said Jeremic who is taking part in the work of the UN Assembly General in New York.
He implied that Belgrade might remove the main obstacle in the negotiations, and that is its request to control the border with Kosovo-Metohija, since so far Belgrade has insisted to be in charge of customs and immigration issues as a sign of continuity of Serbia's sovereignty in Kosovo.
Asked whether authorities in Belgrade will hold their ground concerning the border between Kosovo-Metohija and Montenegro, Macedonia and Albania, Jeremic replied that the Serbian side proposes that the international community remains in the province.
Our platform implies quite wide self-government for the province. What we propose is that Belgrade remains in possession of several reserved rights, just some prerogatives defining the state’s sovereignty, explained Minister Jeremic.
He stressed that if the US or any other country should acknowledge the independence without the UN’s consent, Serbia will have no choice but to reconsider its relations with those entities.
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