"No platform details before Priština confirms interest"

Belgrade won't reveal any details of its platform for political talks with Priština "as long as the other side was silent about whether it wanted the talks".

Izvor: Tanjug

Monday, 08.10.2012.

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BELGRADE Belgrade won't reveal any details of its platform for political talks with Pristina "as long as the other side was silent about whether it wanted the talks". “Do not expect from us - and it is not a diplomatic practice to go public with a finished document and adopted standpoint, while the other party did not even say whether it wants political negotiations,” the government's Office for Kosovo and Metohija Director Aleksandar Vulin told reporters in Belgrade on Monday. "No platform details before Pristina confirms interest" He said that so far, Pristina had only shown willingness for technical negotiations, i.e. for the implementation of what had been reached through technical agreements. Vulin said that Belgrade had proposed the negotiations to be raised to the highest level, adding that the only response coming from Pristina was silence. “I fear that Pristina is not ready for dialogue, and if it is, then it is very clever in hiding that,” said Vulin. He pointed out that the other party would have to say whether it was in favor of negotiations and what format they wanted them to be in, so that Belgrade could base its position on that. “Serbia is ready, but I am not sure about Pristina,” Vulin said, adding that Pristina often makes statements after which spates of violence break out in Kosovo, and calling these moves attempts “to thwart or hamper the announced dialogue.” He added that an advisor to the Kosovo president had recently expressed the view that Pristina should negotiate with the Serbs from Kosovo without intermediaries, as if the Serbian government did not exist, which was an attempt to depict the issue as "Kosovo's internal matter". Representatives of the four Serb municipalities in northern Kosovo have, however, made it clear that negotiations may be conducted only in cooperation with Belgrade and the Serbian government, Vulin said, expressing satisfaction about the attitude of the Serbs in the province. Aleksandar Vulin (Tanjug, file) Tanjug

"No platform details before Priština confirms interest"

He said that so far, Priština had only shown willingness for technical negotiations, i.e. for the implementation of what had been reached through technical agreements.

Vulin said that Belgrade had proposed the negotiations to be raised to the highest level, adding that the only response coming from Priština was silence. “I fear that Priština is not ready for dialogue, and if it is, then it is very clever in hiding that,” said Vulin.

He pointed out that the other party would have to say whether it was in favor of negotiations and what format they wanted them to be in, so that Belgrade could base its position on that.

“Serbia is ready, but I am not sure about Priština,” Vulin said, adding that Priština often makes statements after which spates of violence break out in Kosovo, and calling these moves attempts “to thwart or hamper the announced dialogue.”

He added that an advisor to the Kosovo president had recently expressed the view that Priština should negotiate with the Serbs from Kosovo without intermediaries, as if the Serbian government did not exist, which was an attempt to depict the issue as "Kosovo's internal matter".

Representatives of the four Serb municipalities in northern Kosovo have, however, made it clear that negotiations may be conducted only in cooperation with Belgrade and the Serbian government, Vulin said, expressing satisfaction about the attitude of the Serbs in the province.

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