British ambassador: Agreement, or Ahtisaari plan

Belgrade has still not come up with ideas to solve the Kosovo status question, ahead of the Troika meeting.

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Wednesday, 29.08.2007.

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Belgrade has still not come up with ideas to solve the Kosovo status question, ahead of the Troika meeting. For the international community in Vienna, the negotiating process - limited to 120 days - has already started, and will finish with the submission of a Contact Group report to the UN General Secretary on December 10. British ambassador: Agreement, or Ahtisaari plan British Ambassador to Serbia Stephen Wordsworth told B92 Tuesday that if the two sides are unable to reach an agreement, then UN Special Envoy to Kosovo Martti Ahtisaari’s plan of supervised independence will be applied. "Talks are taking place because of a feeling in some countries that more time is needed to find a solution. We’ll see how things go," Wordsworth said. The ambassador added that, "It’s up to both sides to propose new ideas, while the role of the three mediators is to facilitate talks between the two sides, to see what the alternatives could be." "So, in December we’ll see if a compromise is possible, and if no progress has been made, clearly we’ll be left with what’s already on the table – that is, the Ahtisaari plan," he went on to say. Wordsworth added that he could not understand statements in the last few days coming from certain members of Prime Minister Vojislav Kostunica’s Democratic Party of Serbia (DSS), suggesting that the West was supporting the Ahtisaari plan in order to turn Kosovo into a NATO-state. "In the Ahtisaari plan, NATO has only one role – security. The European Union has a much bigger role – to organize a political mission, and to appoint a civil administrator who will have the authority to directly intervene in the politics of an independent Kosovo, who will correct wrong decisions, and, if necessary, dismiss government members,” said the ambassador. "Thus, the EU, and not NATO, has the major role. It could, in actual fact, be an EU state, but that talk of a NATO-state I really don’t understand. It’s ridiculous," Wordsworth concluded. Stephen Wordsworth (FoNet, archive)

British ambassador: Agreement, or Ahtisaari plan

British Ambassador to Serbia Stephen Wordsworth told B92 Tuesday that if the two sides are unable to reach an agreement, then UN Special Envoy to Kosovo Martti Ahtisaari’s plan of supervised independence will be applied.

"Talks are taking place because of a feeling in some countries that more time is needed to find a solution. We’ll see how things go," Wordsworth said.

The ambassador added that, "It’s up to both sides to propose new ideas, while the role of the three mediators is to facilitate talks between the two sides, to see what the alternatives could be."

"So, in December we’ll see if a compromise is possible, and if no progress has been made, clearly we’ll be left with what’s already on the table – that is, the Ahtisaari plan," he went on to say.

Wordsworth added that he could not understand statements in the last few days coming from certain members of Prime Minister Vojislav Koštunica’s Democratic Party of Serbia (DSS), suggesting that the West was supporting the Ahtisaari plan in order to turn Kosovo into a NATO-state.

"In the Ahtisaari plan, NATO has only one role – security. The European Union has a much bigger role – to organize a political mission, and to appoint a civil administrator who will have the authority to directly intervene in the politics of an independent Kosovo, who will correct wrong decisions, and, if necessary, dismiss government members,” said the ambassador.

"Thus, the EU, and not NATO, has the major role. It could, in actual fact, be an EU state, but that talk of a NATO-state I really don’t understand. It’s ridiculous," Wordsworth concluded.

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