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Proposal for Kosovo status based on agreement between two German states unacceptable
Belgrade,
30 October 2007
Serbian Minister for Kosovo-Metohija Slobodan Samardzic stated that Serbia will not accept the proposal of international mediator for Kosovo-Metohija’s future status Wolfgang Ischinger in case it is based on the German-German agreement from 1972.
In a statement to the Tanjug news agency, Samardzic said that if that information is correct, the Serbian side cannot accept any documents of such or similar contents, adding that Belgrade doubts the validity of such information, as well as the very fact that the Contact Group’s troika of envoys would propose something like that.
We do not expect that something of that kind will happen since that would mean recognition of Kosovo as an independent state, stressed the Minister for Kosovo-Metohija.
He recalled that two German states signed the agreement in 1972 and thus practically acknowledged one another, and added that it says in the document that these are two states with their own sovereignty and territorial integrity.
The case of Kosovo-Metohija is not like that. It is a province within Serbia and under the international administration of the UN. Its status will be determined in the course of the talks within UN Security Council Resolution 1244, emphasised Samardzic.
He also added that the framework of UN Security Resolution 1244 does not allow any agreements resembling the inter-state agreement signed in 1972 between two German states.
We would be very surprised if anyone from the negotiating troika, particularly the troika itself, offered us something like that, concluded Samardzic.
We do not expect that something of that kind will happen since that would mean recognition of Kosovo as an independent state, stressed the Minister for Kosovo-Metohija.
He recalled that two German states signed the agreement in 1972 and thus practically acknowledged one another, and added that it says in the document that these are two states with their own sovereignty and territorial integrity.
The case of Kosovo-Metohija is not like that. It is a province within Serbia and under the international administration of the UN. Its status will be determined in the course of the talks within UN Security Council Resolution 1244, emphasised Samardzic.
He also added that the framework of UN Security Resolution 1244 does not allow any agreements resembling the inter-state agreement signed in 1972 between two German states.
We would be very surprised if anyone from the negotiating troika, particularly the troika itself, offered us something like that, concluded Samardzic.
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