EU ministers: No comments due to elections
Participants at an informal meeting in Brdo pri Kranju spoke last night of the situation in the Balkans.
Sunday, 20.01.2008.
11:28
Participants at an informal meeting in Brdo pri Kranju spoke last night of the situation in the Balkans. However, no statements were released to avoid having a bearing on the results of the elections in Serbia. EU ministers: No comments due to elections Slovenian Foreign Minister Dimitrij Rupel, whose country is currently chairing the EU, last night hosted an informal gathering of foreign ministers from the UK, France, Germany and Italy, which was also attended by EU Enlargement Commissioner Olli Rehn and EU High Representative Javier Solana. The meeting overran by half an hour, while German Foreign Minister Frank Walter Steinmeier arrived late. Although it had been announced that the subject of the meeting would be the EU’s proposed mission to Kosovo, B92 understands that the talks broached a number of themes and looked at the situation in the Balkans as a whole, including discussion of the latest developments in the Kosovo debate. The meeting was conducted behind “hermetically” sealed doors, so that the Congress Center in Brdo pri Kranju where the talks were held was shut, which meant that journalists, in spite of prior announcements to the contrary, were not able to enter the aforesaid complex. A photo session and press conference had even been canceled the previous day. The reason for this, according to Slovenian media, was the participants’ concern that their statements might have an influence on today’s presidential elections in Serbia. This was also the reason that a written public statement that was due to be issued after the discussion was also canceled. B92 understands from the Slovenian Foreign Ministry’s spokesman that the decision to withhold this statement was taken by the meeting’s participants only after the end of consultations. Although it had already been announced that no major decisions would be taken at the meeting, there had been considerable interest among the ministers for such an informal get-together to take place, given the current focus on the themes in question. Nonetheless, no sooner had the meeting ended than the guests were on their way back to Brussels, without making a single public comment on the course of proceedings.
EU ministers: No comments due to elections
Slovenian Foreign Minister Dimitrij Rupel, whose country is currently chairing the EU, last night hosted an informal gathering of foreign ministers from the UK, France, Germany and Italy, which was also attended by EU Enlargement Commissioner Olli Rehn and EU High Representative Javier Solana.The meeting overran by half an hour, while German Foreign Minister Frank Walter Steinmeier arrived late.
Although it had been announced that the subject of the meeting would be the EU’s proposed mission to Kosovo, B92 understands that the talks broached a number of themes and looked at the situation in the Balkans as a whole, including discussion of the latest developments in the Kosovo debate.
The meeting was conducted behind “hermetically” sealed doors, so that the Congress Center in Brdo pri Kranju where the talks were held was shut, which meant that journalists, in spite of prior announcements to the contrary, were not able to enter the aforesaid complex.
A photo session and press conference had even been canceled the previous day.
The reason for this, according to Slovenian media, was the participants’ concern that their statements might have an influence on today’s presidential elections in Serbia.
This was also the reason that a written public statement that was due to be issued after the discussion was also canceled.
B92 understands from the Slovenian Foreign Ministry’s spokesman that the decision to withhold this statement was taken by the meeting’s participants only after the end of consultations.
Although it had already been announced that no major decisions would be taken at the meeting, there had been considerable interest among the ministers for such an informal get-together to take place, given the current focus on the themes in question.
Nonetheless, no sooner had the meeting ended than the guests were on their way back to Brussels, without making a single public comment on the course of proceedings.
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