Official expects “sporadic incidents” in north

Serbia’s Ministry for Kosovo State Secretary Oliver Ivanović said Wednesday than nobody had ever demanded or expected from Serbia to open an office in Priština.

Izvor: Tanjug

Wednesday, 20.06.2012.

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Serbia’s Ministry for Kosovo State Secretary Oliver Ivanovic said Wednesday than nobody had ever demanded or expected from Serbia to open an office in Pristina. “I will not rule out the possibility that certain lower-ranked EU individuals or some representatives of Western Europe countries' FMs have expressed their subjective opinions sometimes and happen to mention something like that but the EU has never been unanimous about it and such demands have not been put forward before Serbia,” he stressed. Official expects “sporadic incidents” in north He told Radio Television of Serbia (RTS) that opening of a presidency office or holding “top level meetings” would be an indirect recognition of the unilaterally proclaimed independence of Kosovo, which, he said, is “a red line we must not cross.” “A meeting between two presidents would mean an official recognition and we will not fall for that,” Ivanovic stressed, adding that holding informal meeting was the only possible option. He said that it was in Serbia's interest to keep the situation under control through dialogue, as the situation was tense and could burst into an incident at any moment, which would not be good for anyone. “The Albanians should also realize that,” he added. Ivanovic said that all the issues that had been dealt with in the dialogue and that would be further debated were sensitive and could not be called only technical. Commenting on the issue of telecommunications, he said that the Albanians and UNMIK had pressed a demand for Kosovo to get its own telephone country code, but had failed in accomplishing the goal thanks to the efforts against that by the Serbian authorities and by Serbia's friends abroad. “Kosovo is not a state, and definitely not an independent one, and therefore it cannot have a special country code,” Ivanovic pointed out. The state secretary believes we are in for a “hot summer” with sporadic incidents of lesser proportions in the Kosovo north. Oliver Ivanovic (Beta, file) Tanjug

Official expects “sporadic incidents” in north

He told Radio Television of Serbia (RTS) that opening of a presidency office or holding “top level meetings” would be an indirect recognition of the unilaterally proclaimed independence of Kosovo, which, he said, is “a red line we must not cross.”

“A meeting between two presidents would mean an official recognition and we will not fall for that,” Ivanović stressed, adding that holding informal meeting was the only possible option.

He said that it was in Serbia's interest to keep the situation under control through dialogue, as the situation was tense and could burst into an incident at any moment, which would not be good for anyone.

“The Albanians should also realize that,” he added.

Ivanović said that all the issues that had been dealt with in the dialogue and that would be further debated were sensitive and could not be called only technical.

Commenting on the issue of telecommunications, he said that the Albanians and UNMIK had pressed a demand for Kosovo to get its own telephone country code, but had failed in accomplishing the goal thanks to the efforts against that by the Serbian authorities and by Serbia's friends abroad.

“Kosovo is not a state, and definitely not an independent one, and therefore it cannot have a special country code,” Ivanović pointed out.

The state secretary believes we are in for a “hot summer” with sporadic incidents of lesser proportions in the Kosovo north.

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