Tadić ends Slovakia visit

Tadić ends Slovakia visit

Tadić stressed that independence for Kosovo is unacceptable to Serbia, that this would be a precedent, and that Serbia advocates a peaceful solution to the Kosovo question, not a solution reached by force.

In talks with the Slovak parliamentary speaker, Tadić also said that he expected the UN Security Council mission to visit the enclaves in Kosovo "in order to find out the real situation, the conditions in which the Serbs are living and the level of their security."

Pasek told the Serbian president that the solution to the Kosovo question "has to proceed from Serbia's legitimate demands and the UN Charter."

The Serbian president's press service on April 25 denied a report by the Slovak news agency SITA, which said that Serbian President Boris Tadić had stated in Bratislava that "ultimately, he would agree to Kosovo's autonomy, but not its independence."

"The quote, that President Tadić said that he would ultimately agree to Kosovo's autonomy but not independence, is incorrect," Beta was told at the press office, which added that Tadić had specified that "Serbia was offering broad autonomy to Albanians, and that Serbia does not want to manage the political and economic life of Albanians in the province."

The Serbian president placed a wreath at Vuk Karadžić's memorial plaque in Bratislava on April 25, thereby ending a two-day visit to Slovakia, during which he also talked with Slovak President Ivan Gasparovic and Prime Minister Robert Fico.