“Last chance for compromise”

The upcoming status talks are the last chance for Belgrade and Priština to reach a compromise, Ursula Plassnik says.

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Monday, 20.08.2007.

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The upcoming status talks are the last chance for Belgrade and Pristina to reach a compromise, Ursula Plassnik says. “The time has come to settle the issue of Kosovo,” the Austrian foreign minister told a Vienna daily newspaper on Monday. “Last chance for compromise” “The international mediating Troika has been put together for that purpose, and the Contact Group are due to submit a report to UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon by December 10,” she said. “We have already wasted too much time, and what we need now is clarity,” Plassnik stressed. Plassnik said she hoped Moscow would realize that the policy of obstruction at the UN Security Council weakened the institution’s decision-making power. “We have found ourselves in a situation where Russia is blocking the Council. It only calls for a solution reached outside the UN. The status issue is bound to be settled,” she said. Meanwhile, on Sunday, Veton Surroi, head of the ORA Reformist Party and member of the Pristina negotiating team, rejected any possibility of partitioning Kosovo or swapping land with Serbia proper. “Not one Kosovo Albanian representative can mention the partition or the swap, not even hypothetically,” he said. Surroi warned that the Albanian side would leave the negotiating table should either of these alternatives be presented during the status talks. Austrian foreign minister Ursula Plassnik (FoNet, archive)

“Last chance for compromise”

“The international mediating Troika has been put together for that purpose, and the Contact Group are due to submit a report to UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon by December 10,” she said.

“We have already wasted too much time, and what we need now is clarity,” Plassnik stressed.

Plassnik said she hoped Moscow would realize that the policy of obstruction at the UN Security Council weakened the institution’s decision-making power.

“We have found ourselves in a situation where Russia is blocking the Council. It only calls for a solution reached outside the UN. The status issue is bound to be settled,” she said.

Meanwhile, on Sunday, Veton Surroi, head of the ORA Reformist Party and member of the Priština negotiating team, rejected any possibility of partitioning Kosovo or swapping land with Serbia proper.

“Not one Kosovo Albanian representative can mention the partition or the swap, not even hypothetically,” he said.

Surroi warned that the Albanian side would leave the negotiating table should either of these alternatives be presented during the status talks.

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