Fried: Serbia should leave past behind

Daniel Fried voiced hope Thursday that the Troika will encourage Belgrade and Priština to reach a compromise.

Izvor: Tanjug

Thursday, 27.09.2007.

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Daniel Fried voiced hope Thursday that the Troika will encourage Belgrade and Pristina to reach a compromise. However, the U.S. Assistant Secretary of State added that "things should be viewed realistically," and that "Serbia should leave the past behind." Fried: Serbia should leave past behind Fried said that he is "unhappy because Yugoslavia fell apart," but that it is "now gone, and Serbia has to find its own path and leave the past behind." "We need to move forward, and Russia might play its part in that," Fried said in an interview to Itar-Tass in New York. In a separate interview with the Slovenian Press Agency STA, Fried said that there is "no alternative to the supervised independence of Kosovo." "Serbia, however, does not have to choose between Europe and Kosovo, but decide whether it would accept a European future," Fried concluded. Yesterday. the U.S. State Department said that Belgrade and Pristina had made "some progress in the Kosovo process." State Department spokesman Tom Casey told a news conference that "a promising start had been made and that it would be good if this pattern were to continue." Two days before the start of direct negotiations between Belgrade and Pristina, he added that Washington supported the resumption of negotiations between Serbian government and the Kosovo Albanians, emphasizing however, that the U.S. advocated supervised independence of the province as "the best outcome to the process." "For the U.S., it is clear that the final outcome will be an independent Kosovo, supervised initially, but again in line with UN Envoy Martti Ahtisaari's plan," he said. "However, the U.S. is involved in the negotiations and wishes to see how they develop and whether a mutually acceptable solution is possible, after which the international community will be able to decide how to move forward," Casey said.

Fried: Serbia should leave past behind

Fried said that he is "unhappy because Yugoslavia fell apart," but that it is "now gone, and Serbia has to find its own path and leave the past behind."

"We need to move forward, and Russia might play its part in that," Fried said in an interview to Itar-Tass in New York.

In a separate interview with the Slovenian Press Agency STA, Fried said that there is "no alternative to the supervised independence of Kosovo."

"Serbia, however, does not have to choose between Europe and Kosovo, but decide whether it would accept a European future," Fried concluded.

Yesterday. the U.S. State Department said that Belgrade and Priština had made "some progress in the Kosovo process."

State Department spokesman Tom Casey told a news conference that "a promising start had been made and that it would be good if this pattern were to continue."

Two days before the start of direct negotiations between Belgrade and Priština, he added that Washington supported the resumption of negotiations between Serbian government and the Kosovo Albanians, emphasizing however, that the U.S. advocated supervised independence of the province as "the best outcome to the process."

"For the U.S., it is clear that the final outcome will be an independent Kosovo, supervised initially, but again in line with UN Envoy Martti Ahtisaari's plan," he said.

"However, the U.S. is involved in the negotiations and wishes to see how they develop and whether a mutually acceptable solution is possible, after which the international community will be able to decide how to move forward," Casey said.

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