"Đinđić cabinet planned Kosovo's partition"

Former high-ranking member of the Democratic Party (DS) and former Serbian PM Zoran Živković says there were plans in the early 2000s to partition Kosovo.

Izvor: Vreme

Thursday, 20.01.2011.

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Former high-ranking member of the Democratic Party (DS) and former Serbian PM Zoran Zivkovic says there were plans in the early 2000s to partition Kosovo. In an interview for Belgrade's Vreme weekly, Zivkovic said the first post-Milosevic era government "would've fallen anyway, even if Zoran Djindjic had not been killed". "Djindjic cabinet planned Kosovo's partition" The government sworn in in early 2001 was made up of a large coalition of parties, known as DOS (the Democratic Opposition of Serbia). Zivkovic, who took over as the country's prime minister in the wake of the Djindjic assassination in March 2003, says that opponents of the DOS government were "impatient citizens, the opposition, hoodlums from within DOS, and the foreign factor that was looking for a new ally". He also told the weekly that "a plan was drawn up during the time of the Djindjic cabinet", which some of the deputy PMs opposed. "The plan was this: to let Montenegro go peacefully; to insist on a partition of Kosovo. Later, in December 2002, to start implementing all that, to deal with crime, with (Milorad Ulemek) Legija, and all that; to bring order into the Army, and for me to become defense minister in 2003." "This plan met with the resistance of two or three deputy premiers, some ministers and the (then Yugoslav president Vojislav) Kostunica cabinet. Some media also joined in," claims Zivkovic. He went on to say that DOS at the time received an offer from the Socialist Party of Serbia (SPS) - which joined the opposition after the fall of its founder and leader Slobodan Milosevic in 2000 - to secure a parliamentary quorum for the ruling coalition "in exchange for a monthly fee of EUR 50,000". "The money was not a problem," said the former PM. "But already webs were being woven in the Democratic Party and elsewhere, from the Army to tycoons. The final outcome was what it was."

"Đinđić cabinet planned Kosovo's partition"

The government sworn in in early 2001 was made up of a large coalition of parties, known as DOS (the Democratic Opposition of Serbia).

Živković, who took over as the country's prime minister in the wake of the Đinđić assassination in March 2003, says that opponents of the DOS government were "impatient citizens, the opposition, hoodlums from within DOS, and the foreign factor that was looking for a new ally".

He also told the weekly that "a plan was drawn up during the time of the Đinđić cabinet", which some of the deputy PMs opposed.

"The plan was this: to let Montenegro go peacefully; to insist on a partition of Kosovo. Later, in December 2002, to start implementing all that, to deal with crime, with (Milorad Ulemek) Legija, and all that; to bring order into the Army, and for me to become defense minister in 2003."

"This plan met with the resistance of two or three deputy premiers, some ministers and the (then Yugoslav president Vojislav) Koštunica cabinet. Some media also joined in," claims Živković.

He went on to say that DOS at the time received an offer from the Socialist Party of Serbia (SPS) - which joined the opposition after the fall of its founder and leader Slobodan Milošević in 2000 - to secure a parliamentary quorum for the ruling coalition "in exchange for a monthly fee of EUR 50,000".

"The money was not a problem," said the former PM. "But already webs were being woven in the Democratic Party and elsewhere, from the Army to tycoons. The final outcome was what it was."

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