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Negotiations on six-point plan to start on February 17

Belgrade, 16 February 2009

Minister of Foreign Affairs Vuk Jeremic said that negotiations with the UN and UNMIK on the implementation of the UN Secretary General's six-point plan, will start on February 17.

Vuk Jeremic

Jeremic told daily Politika in an interview that Kosovo Albanians are still saying that this will not happen, but it will.

We insisted negotiations should begin on February 17 regarding the implementation of the plan that is not Martti Ahtisaari's plan, but UN Secretary General's, which is in collision with the Ahtisaari plan.

The Minister commented there is great resistance in the field as Kosovo Albanians are making great pressures, mostly outside the institutions, on the UN representatives, which is very worrying.

We will continue to insist before the UN that the decision of the Security Council is implemented, said Jeremic, noting that we have no other option except to use all diplomatic means to continue to fight for the preservation of the constitutional order.

This fight for the constitutional order must not collide with the carrying out of other foreign policy priorities, such as improved regional cooperation and accelerated EU integration, he stated.

The most important thing is that we transferred the issue of Kosovo status from political to legal arena, Jeremic said.

Jeremic said that UN Security Council's decision to support the Secretary General's six-point plan formally put Ahtisaari's document ad acta, which never gained the support of the Security Council.

He expressed optimism over the outcome of Serbia's request that the International Court of Justice (ICJ) give its opinion on the legality of the Kosovo's unilateral independence.

Jeremic stated that he is convinced that after the court rules that the proclamation was not in line with international law, the process of consolidation of the unilaterally declared independence will simply be stopped.

There will be no new recognitions and with such a ruling, Kosovo will not become a member of any international organisation, he said.

This will finally give us a chance to sit down and agree that, since we have demonstrated that unilateralism does not lead to a solution, having in front of us common, strategic goals, and above all EU integration, we should find a solution acceptable both to Belgrade and Pristina, and therefore confirmed at the UN Security Council, said Jeremic.

The ICJ's ruling will not just be a moral satisfaction, but a concrete result, after which next steps will follow, centred on the preservation of Serbia's sovereignty and territorial integrity, the Minister concluded.