Bush-Putin meeting chance for compromise

One day ahead of the Bush-Putin meeting in Maine, hopes are high that world powers may agree over Kosovo.

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Saturday, 30.06.2007.

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Bush-Putin meeting chance for compromise

In his opinion, the fourth draft of a new Kosovo resolution submitted to the United Nations Security Council Thursday presented yet another exertion of pressure on Russia.

“An interesting fact is that in a Contact Group meeting in January 2006, Moscow accepted the position presented in a statement following the meeting, according to which Kosovo is a unique case due to repression the province suffered during Slobodan Milošević’s regime,” Reljić reminded.

“However, only a couple of weeks later Russia withdrew its signature from the document. From that moment on, the standpoints have begun to significantly differ,” he explained. 

Putin is said to be set to present new ideas he recently received from Prime Minister Vojislav Koštunica, during their meeting in St. Petersburg.

Minister for Kosovo Slobodan Samardžić said that the public in Serbia learn what these ideas are only after the Maine meeting.

Meanwhile, Belgian Foreign Minister Karel De Gucht hinted at possible new EU suggestion regarding Kosovo’s status settlement process. He proposed that a new round of the dialogue between Belgrade-Priština should last 120 days, but without a predetermined outcome.

Samardžić said that De Gucht’s idea was a positive improvement.

“We believe Russia can persuade the U.S. that the issue of Kosovo calls for a more sensitive approach, and launch a process which would not be predestined and predetermined like it was the case in 2005, when the UN Security Council arranged negotiations between Belgrade and Priština, appointing Ahtisaari as mediator,” Samardžić said Thursday in Gračanica.

Commenting on the document containing Belgrade’s ideas for Kosovo status settlement Putin was expected to show Bush, Samardžić said that "should the upcoming Bush-Putin meeting prove successful it would mean the document went well."

He said that partition of Kosovo was not one of Serbia’s option.

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