Govt. official: Merkel said nothing new

Head of the government media office Milivoje Mihajlović says German Chancellor Angela Merkel "has repeated her old conditions for Belgrade".

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Tuesday, 20.12.2011.

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Head of the government media office Milivoje Mihajlovic says German Chancellor Angela Merkel "has repeated her old conditions for Belgrade". She also "presented Pristina with new ones", while visiting Kosovo on Monday, according to Mihajlovic. Govt. official: Merkel said nothing new Merkel said that "Kosovo should contribute to a peaceful solution of the conflict in the north", and that a solution meant also an "open border with Serbia". "The only new thing that Merkel said during yesterday's visit were demands related to Pristina. As far as Belgrade is concerned, the demands are the same as last summer when she was in Belgrade, " Mihajlovic told state broadcaster RTS. He stressed that Belgrade "understood those messages correctly back in the summer", and that it was behaving in line with its "political coordinates" - the Constitution and UN Security Council Resolution 1244. Commenting on Merkel's statements that Serbia should "find a way to achieve freedom of movement, border cooperation and engage so there are no parallel structures in Kosovo", Mihajlovic said that Belgrade will implement agreements it reached with Pristina, "because that is an instrument to reach a just solution and stability". "The policy of both the EU and Kosovo is not a two-track policy. It's one and the same road, because the policy that leads to the EU helps to solve the problem of Kosovo," this official asserted. However, he said that removing Serbia's institutions from the Serb-majority north "would help the ethnic cleansing of Serbs from the area", and stressed that those institutions were elected legally. "The institutions there are above all meant to secure better lives for Serbs," concluded Mihajlovic. Milivoje Mihajlovic (Tanjug, file)

Govt. official: Merkel said nothing new

Merkel said that "Kosovo should contribute to a peaceful solution of the conflict in the north", and that a solution meant also an "open border with Serbia".

"The only new thing that Merkel said during yesterday's visit were demands related to Priština. As far as Belgrade is concerned, the demands are the same as last summer when she was in Belgrade, " Mihajlović told state broadcaster RTS.

He stressed that Belgrade "understood those messages correctly back in the summer", and that it was behaving in line with its "political coordinates" - the Constitution and UN Security Council Resolution 1244.

Commenting on Merkel's statements that Serbia should "find a way to achieve freedom of movement, border cooperation and engage so there are no parallel structures in Kosovo", Mihajlović said that Belgrade will implement agreements it reached with Priština, "because that is an instrument to reach a just solution and stability".

"The policy of both the EU and Kosovo is not a two-track policy. It's one and the same road, because the policy that leads to the EU helps to solve the problem of Kosovo," this official asserted.

However, he said that removing Serbia's institutions from the Serb-majority north "would help the ethnic cleansing of Serbs from the area", and stressed that those institutions were elected legally.

"The institutions there are above all meant to secure better lives for Serbs," concluded Mihajlović.

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