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Kostunica calls for better protection of Kosovo Serbs
Belgrade,
12 March 2004
Serbian Prime Minister Vojislav Kostunica met with UN Department of Peacekeeping Operations Head Jean-Marie Guehnno, to present the Serbian government's stands concerning the situation in Kosovo-Metohija and to point to the difficult position of the Serb community as well as to disrespect for human rights in the province.
Harri Holkeri, Jean-Marie Guehnno and Vojislav Kostunica
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FoNet
Kostunica said it was necessary to ensure a better and more efficient institutional protection of Serbs living in Kosovo-Metohija and added that a new concept of decentralisation of power in the province would help achieve that goal. He stressed that the process would not insinuate Kosovo's future status but would rather help preserve the province as a multiethnic environment.
Responding to Guehnno's expressed fear that a fresh administrative partition would lead to ethnic division in the province, Kostunica said that this was already the case in Kosovo and reiterated that the protection of the minority population was the most important task at the moment.
Kostunica and Guehnno agreed that it was feasible to establish a much better cooperation between Serbia, UNMIK, and Kosovo interim institutions on an array of practical economic and other issues. They also welcomed the launching of talks between Belgrade and Pristina.
At Kostunica's objections to the process of privatisation in Kosovo as well as the ongoing air-photography surveying for a new land register, Guehnno gave assurances that in the future, privatisation in the province would be transparent and in line with regulations.
UN Special Representative in Kosovo-Metohija Harri Holkeri, who also attended the meeting, suggested that privatisation in Kosovo should be added to the agenda of Belgrade - Pristina talks.
Responding to Guehnno's expressed fear that a fresh administrative partition would lead to ethnic division in the province, Kostunica said that this was already the case in Kosovo and reiterated that the protection of the minority population was the most important task at the moment.
Kostunica and Guehnno agreed that it was feasible to establish a much better cooperation between Serbia, UNMIK, and Kosovo interim institutions on an array of practical economic and other issues. They also welcomed the launching of talks between Belgrade and Pristina.
At Kostunica's objections to the process of privatisation in Kosovo as well as the ongoing air-photography surveying for a new land register, Guehnno gave assurances that in the future, privatisation in the province would be transparent and in line with regulations.
UN Special Representative in Kosovo-Metohija Harri Holkeri, who also attended the meeting, suggested that privatisation in Kosovo should be added to the agenda of Belgrade - Pristina talks.
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