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Compromise solution for Kosovo should be reached through dialogue

Belgrade, 19 January 2008

Serbian Minister of Defence Dragan Sutanovac met with a delegation of the Foreign Affairs Office of the Chinese Ministry of Defence and both sides expressed readiness for expanding military cooperation, which has a long tradition.

China, as a permanent member of the UN Security Council, is against imposing solutions and setting deadlines for negotiations on the future status of Kosovo-Metohija, and it supports Serbia’s principled position that a compromise solution should be found through dialogue.

During Sutanovac’s meeting with the delegation of the Chinese Ministry of Defence, led by Major General Qian Lihua, Director of the Foreign Affairs Office, it was agreed that the military cooperation has been considerably improved in the recent years.

China gives significant contribution to the stability of international relations, and one of the ways for doing that is taking part in the peacekeeping missions in the world, including Kosovo, where China has 19 police officers within UNMIK.

The cooperation is especially good in the fields of military-economic and scientific-technical cooperation, as well as in the fields of military education and health care.

Serbian Minister of Defence Dragan Sutanovac will give contribution to that cooperation with his visit to China this year, when a defence agreement will be signed.

The delegation of the Foreign Affairs Office of the Chinese Ministry of Defence arrived to a several-day visit to the Serbian Ministry of Defence on January 17.