Serbia gets Kosovo team this weekend

The prime minister and the president are to decide on the line-up for Serbia’s negotiating team this weekend.

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Saturday, 25.08.2007.

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The prime minister and the president are to decide on the line-up for Serbia’s negotiating team this weekend. Several days ahead of the meeting with the Contact Group Troika in Vienna on August 30, it is not yet known who will travel to the Austrian capital to represent Belgrade in a meeting which is part of renewed negotiating process over Kosovo's future status. Serbia gets Kosovo team this weekend B92 has learned that Vojislav Kostunica and Boris Tadic will agree on the team’s structure over the weekend. Kosovo Minister Slobodan Samardzic confirmed Belgrade received an official invitation for the meeting Thursday, which, according to him, did not outline a precise agenda and talks format. “We will travel to Vienna for what we believe to be a consultative meeting. The genuine negotiations have not started yet,” he said, adding that Belgrade expects direct talks with the Kosovo Albanian side at one point, which is set as the negotiations’ goal. The minister stressed that the Contact Group Troika assured Belgrade direct meetings between the two sides would be arranged, but that the international mediators need to prepare grounds for such them to take place. “We are willing to partake in these preparations for direct talks on the province’s status, and will go to Vienna for that purpose,” he stressed. As for the Belgrade team make up, according to unofficial information, the Serbian delegation will be formed at the ministerial level and probably include Foreign Minister Vuk Jeremic and Kosovo Minister Slobodan Samardzic. Meanwhile, on Friday, Veton Surroi, head of the ORA Reformist Party and member of the Pristina negotiating team, said that beside him, Kosovo President Fatmir Sejdiu, Prime Minister Agim Ceku, assembly president Kol Berisha and Democratic Party of Kosovo (DPK) leader Hashim Thaci, will attend the meeting in Vienna. Prime Minister Vojislav Kostunica, President Boris Tadic (FoNet, archive)

Serbia gets Kosovo team this weekend

B92 has learned that Vojislav Koštunica and Boris Tadić will agree on the team’s structure over the weekend.

Kosovo Minister Slobodan Samardžić confirmed Belgrade received an official invitation for the meeting Thursday, which, according to him, did not outline a precise agenda and talks format.

“We will travel to Vienna for what we believe to be a consultative meeting. The genuine negotiations have not started yet,” he said, adding that Belgrade expects direct talks with the Kosovo Albanian side at one point, which is set as the negotiations’ goal.

The minister stressed that the Contact Group Troika assured Belgrade direct meetings between the two sides would be arranged, but that the international mediators need to prepare grounds for such them to take place.

“We are willing to partake in these preparations for direct talks on the province’s status, and will go to Vienna for that purpose,” he stressed.

As for the Belgrade team make up, according to unofficial information, the Serbian delegation will be formed at the ministerial level and probably include Foreign Minister Vuk Jeremić and Kosovo Minister Slobodan Samardžić.

Meanwhile, on Friday, Veton Surroi, head of the ORA Reformist Party and member of the Priština negotiating team, said that beside him, Kosovo President Fatmir Sejdiu, Prime Minister Agim Ceku, assembly president Kol Berisha and Democratic Party of Kosovo (DPK) leader Hashim Thaci, will attend the meeting in Vienna.

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