Tadić says his plan for Kosovo is “realistic”

Serbia’s President Boris Tadic says that his job is to convince the great powers that his plan for Kosovo is realistic and that Kosovo partition is impossible. “Anything that Albanians in Kosovo and Serbs in Belgrade agree can only be implemented if great powers agree to it,” he told Al Jazeera. Tadic says his plan for Kosovo is “realistic” The Serbian president explained that his plan called for a solution “because the partition of Kosovo is impossible since the great powers do not want that”. “The plan has been presented in more or less every capital in which policy is created. The answer is not positive but it’s not negative either, and we will see whether it will be positive,” he added. Tadic said that there were many interesting solutions for Kosovo, such as Northern Ireland, South Tyrol, the Aland Islands, and that things that could be implemented in northern Kosovo should be taken from all those solutions. “We cannot live in a frozen conflict because this frozen conflict will escalate sooner or later and people will lose lives again at some barricades or who knows where, just like we cannot live in the moment where there is a low intensity conflict and we need to find a solution instead,” the president stressed. He said that “we need to look at the reality in order to find practical solutions” and that the citizens needed to understand that problems “could not be solved over night”. Commenting on relations in the region, Tadic said that things had improved since the last trilateral meeting. He added that withdrawal of mutual genocide lawsuits between Serbia and Croatia was only possible through an agreement. The Serbian president pointed out that his presence at the celebration of the Republic of Srpska (RS) 20th anniversary was “logical, useful and normal” and in accordance with special and parallel ties between the RS and Serbia. He added that establishment of special ties with the Federation of Bosnia-Herzegovina did not depend on Serbia because it was ready for it, and that the decision depended on the Federation. Boris Tadic (Beta) Tanjug

Tadić says his plan for Kosovo is “realistic”

The Serbian president explained that his plan called for a solution “because the partition of Kosovo is impossible since the great powers do not want that”.

“The plan has been presented in more or less every capital in which policy is created. The answer is not positive but it’s not negative either, and we will see whether it will be positive,” he added.

Tadić said that there were many interesting solutions for Kosovo, such as Northern Ireland, South Tyrol, the Aland Islands, and that things that could be implemented in northern Kosovo should be taken from all those solutions.

“We cannot live in a frozen conflict because this frozen conflict will escalate sooner or later and people will lose lives again at some barricades or who knows where, just like we cannot live in the moment where there is a low intensity conflict and we need to find a solution instead,” the president stressed.

He said that “we need to look at the reality in order to find practical solutions” and that the citizens needed to understand that problems “could not be solved over night”.

Commenting on relations in the region, Tadić said that things had improved since the last trilateral meeting.

He added that withdrawal of mutual genocide lawsuits between Serbia and Croatia was only possible through an agreement.

The Serbian president pointed out that his presence at the celebration of the Republic of Srpska (RS) 20th anniversary was “logical, useful and normal” and in accordance with special and parallel ties between the RS and Serbia.

He added that establishment of special ties with the Federation of Bosnia-Herzegovina did not depend on Serbia because it was ready for it, and that the decision depended on the Federation.