Kosovo status before the UN Security Council
EU official says the UN Security Council will have to decide on the Kosovo status if there is no agreement.
Saturday, 08.07.2006.
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Kosovo status before the UN Security Council
Simić told the Danas daily that Koštunica should present the Serbian platform for Kosovo autonomy and Serbia’s position regarding Vienna talks. The prime minister should also give a detailed explanation of the joint proposal authored by him and the Serbian president Boris Tadić submitted to the Contact Group member states, UN Secretary General and his Special Envoy to Kosovo, Marti Ahtisaari, Simić said. ‘President and prime minister’s new idea is that the talks in their present form, started with considering daily issues, defined as ‘talks on status neutral questions’, have so far not yielded results’, Simić said.Simić added that, beside the status talks that are scheduled to start in July, Vienna talks questions will not be disregarded. ‘Those are the vital questions when it comes to human rights, above all pertaining to Serbs, but also the province’s other non-Albanians. These are also vitally important questions for the State of Serbia, bearing in mind our desire that all our citizens, especially those who see Serbia as their country, feel safe’, Simić was quoted.
Simić also said that it is at present impossible to say that Belgrade proposals have been accepted in their entirety or that ‘our diplomatic activity yields complete results’, and that all this will be clearer in the near future. ‘But, what is clear now, is that there is no longer the confidence, above all that of Ahtisaari himself and his team, that all the issues depend on them, including the methodology and the deadlines, and if you will, the talks’ outcome’. ‘That initial and very flawed idea that Ahtisaari and his team had during talks themselves, has been, I daresay, mostly altered’, Simić said.
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He told the Voice of America service that the role of international factors will be very clear even after the determining of the final status, and that the international community, lead by the EU, will continue to oversee the process of transfer of power to local institutions.
EU’s most important strategy in that phase will be to help Kosovo move towards the integration processes, in two ways. The first will be enhancement of the economic build-up similar to that of Macedonia, Bosnia and Serbia, and the second, more complicated issue, will be the implementation of the status decision, the position of the minorities in that process, the rule of law and improvement in the functioning of police and legal bodies, Solstrom stressed. ‘We are constantly working to encourage minorities to become an integral part of the Kosovo society; unfortunately, their leaders are not taking part in the temporary institutions, which is a shame.’
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