“EU doesn't want UN Kosovo debate”

Sonja Liht thinks that a compromise with the EU is possible, but that the EU wants Serbia to give up on a debate on Kosovo in the UN.

Izvor: Blic

Monday, 30.08.2010.

10:23

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Sonja Liht thinks that a compromise with the EU is possible, but that the EU wants Serbia to give up on a debate on Kosovo in the UN. “After German Foreign Minister Guido Westerwelle’s visit it is also clear that the EU does not want the debate to continue further under the UN roof,” she said. “EU doesn't want UN Kosovo debate” According to the head of the Foreign Ministry's Foreign Policy Council, the EU does not want a debate on Kosovo to “be additionally included as an item of the General Assembly’s agenda, which is requested with our resolution”. Considering that Kosovo will remain on the UN Security Council’s agenda in any case and that neither debates in the General Assembly nor resolutions are binding, Liht believes that it is one of the issues that compromise could be achieved. She pointed out that “even in the case it was accepted in its present version by the majority in the General Assembly, which is practically impossible to imagine, the resolution cannot annul the opinion of the International Court of Justice (ICJ)”. “It can only offer a political interpretation of the ruling, just like, after all, the Serbian parliament cannot annul a ruling of the Supreme Court of Serbia,” she xplained. According to her, "the most important thing is that the will for talks and compromise exists". “When we recall our recent past, in which inflexibility and intransigence for compromise made easier the biggest persecutions of Serbs from Croatia and from Kosovo, then it will be clearer, I hope also to those who are prone to quickly forget, that the policy of refusing talks and compromises is very dangerous,” Liht told Belgrade daily Blic.

“EU doesn't want UN Kosovo debate”

According to the head of the Foreign Ministry's Foreign Policy Council, the EU does not want a debate on Kosovo to “be additionally included as an item of the General Assembly’s agenda, which is requested with our resolution”.

Considering that Kosovo will remain on the UN Security Council’s agenda in any case and that neither debates in the General Assembly nor resolutions are binding, Liht believes that it is one of the issues that compromise could be achieved.

She pointed out that “even in the case it was accepted in its present version by the majority in the General Assembly, which is practically impossible to imagine, the resolution cannot annul the opinion of the International Court of Justice (ICJ)”.

“It can only offer a political interpretation of the ruling, just like, after all, the Serbian parliament cannot annul a ruling of the Supreme Court of Serbia,” she xplained.

According to her, "the most important thing is that the will for talks and compromise exists".

“When we recall our recent past, in which inflexibility and intransigence for compromise made easier the biggest persecutions of Serbs from Croatia and from Kosovo, then it will be clearer, I hope also to those who are prone to quickly forget, that the policy of refusing talks and compromises is very dangerous,” Liht told Belgrade daily Blic.

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