Ljajić: Initiative’s chances improving

Rasim Ljajić says that the members of the OIC and the Arab League will not vote against Serbia’s ICJ initiative.

Izvor: Tanjug

Friday, 19.09.2008.

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Rasim Ljajic says that the members of the OIC and the Arab League will not vote against Serbia’s ICJ initiative. The labor minister has spent the last few days in New York talking to representatives of the Organization of the Islamic Conference (OIC) and Arab League member-states about the initiative to seek the International Court of Justice’s (ICJ) advisory opinion on the legality of Kosovo’s unilaterally declared independence. Ljajic: Initiative’s chances improving "Some of the states will abstain, because, as is well-known, they are under a lot of pressure, but, on the other hand, a great many of them will support our resolution,” Ljajic told Belgrade daily Vecernje Novosti. The minister was in New York ahead of the UN Committee’s session, to lead a Serbian delegation at a session of UNICEF’s executive board. Ljajic said that he believed that Serbia’s chances were increasing. "The essential thing is that the political climate has changed since we began lobbying for our motion, and we have one more month that we need to fully capitalize on, to contact and visit many countries. There will be a great deal of countries abstaining during the vote, but certain states that have already recognized Kosovo will support the resolution. Therefore, I believe that we have a chance,” the labor minister stressed. He said that he had talked to the chief of the OIC Office—where 57 countries are represented, of which only six have recognized Kosovo— as well as to the Qatari, Ugandan (OIC presiding country) Saudi Arabian, United Arab Emirates and Kuwaiti mission chiefs. "I told them that our motion is not confrontational, but that it only sought the court’s advisory opinion on the issue, which could help us return to the negotiating table and reach a compromise solution for Kosovo,” Ljajic said. Rasim Ljajic (FoNet, archive)

Ljajić: Initiative’s chances improving

"Some of the states will abstain, because, as is well-known, they are under a lot of pressure, but, on the other hand, a great many of them will support our resolution,” Ljajić told Belgrade daily Večernje Novosti.

The minister was in New York ahead of the UN Committee’s session, to lead a Serbian delegation at a session of UNICEF’s executive board.

Ljajić said that he believed that Serbia’s chances were increasing.

"The essential thing is that the political climate has changed since we began lobbying for our motion, and we have one more month that we need to fully capitalize on, to contact and visit many countries. There will be a great deal of countries abstaining during the vote, but certain states that have already recognized Kosovo will support the resolution. Therefore, I believe that we have a chance,” the labor minister stressed.

He said that he had talked to the chief of the OIC Office—where 57 countries are represented, of which only six have recognized Kosovo— as well as to the Qatari, Ugandan (OIC presiding country) Saudi Arabian, United Arab Emirates and Kuwaiti mission chiefs.

"I told them that our motion is not confrontational, but that it only sought the court’s advisory opinion on the issue, which could help us return to the negotiating table and reach a compromise solution for Kosovo,” Ljajić said.

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