Jeremić draws Balkans, Middle East parallels

Foreign Minister Vuk Jeremić has started his two-day visit to Israel Thursday.

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Thursday, 27.12.2007.

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Foreign Minister Vuk Jeremic has started his two-day visit to Israel Thursday. The peace process conducted in the Middle East and that in the Balkans bear many similarities, he told reporters in Jerusalem. Jeremic draws Balkans, Middle East parallels Jeremic, who has begun his visit by honoring the victims of the Holocaust as he laid a wreath at the Hall of Remembrance during a visit to the Yad Vashem Holocaust Memorial near the Israeli capital, said that this will be the subject of his conversations with top Israeli officials in Jerusalem. The Serbian diplomacy chief explained that the United States and EU play a major role in bids to settle both volatile regions, with different views on the respective crises. "When it comes to the Middle East, they believe that the negotiations must continue until a solution is found, while when it comes to Kosovo, they believe that further talks are pointless," Jeremic stressed, and added that if a negotiated solution is possible in the Middle East, then the same applies to Kosovo. "For this reason I believe we will find support from our [Israeli] interlocutors to continue Kosovo status talks until a compromise solution is found, based in international law," he said. Jeremic is set to meet with his Israeli counterpart Tzipi Livni, Prime Minister Ehud Olmert and President Shimon Peres. Vuk Jeremic at the Yad Vashem Memorial (Beta)

Jeremić draws Balkans, Middle East parallels

Jeremić, who has begun his visit by honoring the victims of the Holocaust as he laid a wreath at the Hall of Remembrance during a visit to the Yad Vashem Holocaust Memorial near the Israeli capital, said that this will be the subject of his conversations with top Israeli officials in Jerusalem.

The Serbian diplomacy chief explained that the United States and EU play a major role in bids to settle both volatile regions, with different views on the respective crises.

"When it comes to the Middle East, they believe that the negotiations must continue until a solution is found, while when it comes to Kosovo, they believe that further talks are pointless," Jeremić stressed, and added that if a negotiated solution is possible in the Middle East, then the same applies to Kosovo.

"For this reason I believe we will find support from our [Israeli] interlocutors to continue Kosovo status talks until a compromise solution is found, based in international law," he said.

Jeremić is set to meet with his Israeli counterpart Tzipi Livni, Prime Minister Ehud Olmert and President Shimon Peres.

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