Still no official paper from Brussels, media say

Serbia should decide on the EU’s offer by Tuesday but the Belgrade negotiating team still has not received an official paper from Brussels, media have reported.

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Friday, 05.04.2013.

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BELGRADE Serbia should decide on the EU’s offer by Tuesday but the Belgrade negotiating team still has not received an official paper from Brussels, media have reported. Daily Politika writes that the Serbian negotiating team still has not stated what the latest offer envisages. Still no official paper from Brussels, media say The daily adds that the paper offered to the Belgrade negotiating team in Brussels contained a text that was partially typed and partially handwritten. “We did not have time to look through it properly and we were interpreting it differently afterward,” a member of the Serbian team who wished to remain anonymous told Politika. According to the daily, EU High Representative Catherine Ashton has promised to send an official offer to Belgrade but that it has not arrived yet. Daily Vecernje novosti has reported that Belgrade will not bother to send a formal response to an oral offer which was rejected at the last round of the talks if the EU fails to send an offer that will include concrete powers for the community of Serb municipalities. The daily also claims that an official offer has not been sent to Belgrade and that Serbia is requested to accept the proposal that was only partially read to Prime Minister Ivica Dacic and First Deputy PM Aleksandar Vucic during the last round of the talks in Brussels. According to Vecernje novosti, Vucic is expected to make the final decision. Daily Blic writes, on the other hand, that the offer for northern Kosovo was even worse and that it envisages even less powers for the community of Serb municipalities than the previous eight-point solution. According to Blic, the offer envisages certain requests made by Belgrade but only if the southern part of Kosovska Mitrovica joined the region. This would practically mean that northern Kosovo would have a majority Albanian population. Blic’s sources say that the latest round of the negotiations was more about finding a way of abolishing Serbian institutions in the north than a constructive proposal for organization of institutions in the north. “It is unacceptable for us that southern Mitrovica is a part of the region because 70,000 Albanians live there and around 43,000 Serbs live in the north. Albanians would practically have the majority and they would decide on everything,” the daily’s source concluded. Hashim Thaci, Catherine Ashton and Ivica Dacic (Tanjug, file) Blic Politika Tanjug Vecernje novosti

Still no official paper from Brussels, media say

The daily adds that the paper offered to the Belgrade negotiating team in Brussels contained a text that was partially typed and partially handwritten.

“We did not have time to look through it properly and we were interpreting it differently afterward,” a member of the Serbian team who wished to remain anonymous told Politika.

According to the daily, EU High Representative Catherine Ashton has promised to send an official offer to Belgrade but that it has not arrived yet.

Daily Večernje novosti has reported that Belgrade will not bother to send a formal response to an oral offer which was rejected at the last round of the talks if the EU fails to send an offer that will include concrete powers for the community of Serb municipalities.

The daily also claims that an official offer has not been sent to Belgrade and that Serbia is requested to accept the proposal that was only partially read to Prime Minister Ivica Dačić and First Deputy PM Aleksandar Vučić during the last round of the talks in Brussels.

According to Večernje novosti, Vučić is expected to make the final decision.

Daily Blic writes, on the other hand, that the offer for northern Kosovo was even worse and that it envisages even less powers for the community of Serb municipalities than the previous eight-point solution. According to Blic, the offer envisages certain requests made by Belgrade but only if the southern part of Kosovska Mitrovica joined the region. This would practically mean that northern Kosovo would have a majority Albanian population.

Blic’s sources say that the latest round of the negotiations was more about finding a way of abolishing Serbian institutions in the north than a constructive proposal for organization of institutions in the north.

“It is unacceptable for us that southern Mitrovica is a part of the region because 70,000 Albanians live there and around 43,000 Serbs live in the north. Albanians would practically have the majority and they would decide on everything,” the daily’s source concluded.

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