Kosovo threatens to cause split in Czech government

The Czech Christian Democratic Party has reservations regarding the recognition of Kosovo.

Izvor: Beta

Tuesday, 25.03.2008.

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The Czech Christian Democratic Party has reservations regarding the recognition of Kosovo. The party has, as a result, called for consultations between the three parties that make up the ruling coalition, because it has problems with recognizing Kosovo’s unilateral independence declaration. Kosovo threatens to cause split in Czech government The leader of the Christian Democratic Party, Jiri Cunek, has called on urgent talks with the Civic Democratic Party and Green Party, according to a Czech radio station. Czech Foreign Minister Karel Schwarzenberg said that a proposal for the recognition of Kosovo independence had been prepared for the April 3 cabinet meeting, along with a report showing that the Kosovo government was fulfilling the conditions asked of it, according to the internationally-supervised plan of independence. “For now, we must say that the Kosovo government is behaving reasonably, I must admit that. It’s our Serbian friends who have caused more trouble, while the Albanians have behaved respectably,” Schwarzenberg told the weekend edition of daily Pravo. Cunek, however, said that his party’s stance on Kosovo was “more reserved than negative.” The smallest partner, the Green Party, are ready to vote for the foreign minister’s proposal, which his party drafted despite the fact that it believed Kosovo’s unilateral independence was a bad idea, but “the least harmful of the options that exist.” “Since independence has already been declared, we cannot do anything else,” said Education Minister Ondøej Liska. Czech President Vaclav Klaus, the founder of Prime Minister Mirek Topolanek’s Conservative Party, is against Kosovo independence, as is the opposition left of the Social Democrats and the unreformed Communists, who believe that such a move would flagrantly violate international law and open a Pandora’s Box.

Kosovo threatens to cause split in Czech government

The leader of the Christian Democratic Party, Jiri Cunek, has called on urgent talks with the Civic Democratic Party and Green Party, according to a Czech radio station.

Czech Foreign Minister Karel Schwarzenberg said that a proposal for the recognition of Kosovo independence had been prepared for the April 3 cabinet meeting, along with a report showing that the Kosovo government was fulfilling the conditions asked of it, according to the internationally-supervised plan of independence.

“For now, we must say that the Kosovo government is behaving reasonably, I must admit that. It’s our Serbian friends who have caused more trouble, while the Albanians have behaved respectably,” Schwarzenberg told the weekend edition of daily Pravo.

Cunek, however, said that his party’s stance on Kosovo was “more reserved than negative.”

The smallest partner, the Green Party, are ready to vote for the foreign minister’s proposal, which his party drafted despite the fact that it believed Kosovo’s unilateral independence was a bad idea, but “the least harmful of the options that exist.”

“Since independence has already been declared, we cannot do anything else,” said Education Minister Ondøej Liška.

Czech President Vaclav Klaus, the founder of Prime Minister Mirek Topolanek’s Conservative Party, is against Kosovo independence, as is the opposition left of the Social Democrats and the unreformed Communists, who believe that such a move would flagrantly violate international law and open a Pandora’s Box.

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