Contact Group meets in New York
The foreign ministers of the six-member Contact Group for Kosovo will meet in New York today.
Thursday, 27.09.2007.
09:33
The foreign ministers of the six-member Contact Group for Kosovo will meet in New York today. The meeting comes a one day before the direct talks between Belgrade and Pristina on the future status of the province, Beta news agency reported. Contact Group meets in New York The U.S., Russia, Great Britain, France, Germany, and Italy foreign policy chiefs - Condoleezza Rice, Sergei Lavrov, David Miliband, Bernard Kouchner, Frank-Walter Steinmeier, and Massimo D'Alema – will hold the meeting that will also be attended by the mediating Troika envoys, Wolfgang Ischinger, Frank Wisner and Aleksandr Botsan-Kharchenko. Apart from the Troika, the talks will be attended by EU High Representative for Foreign and Security Policy Javier Solana, EU Enlargement Commissioner Olli Rehn and NATO Secretary General Jaap de Hoop Scheffer. Wednesday, President Boris Tadic said that he had conveyed to U.S. President George W. Bush Serbia's position on Kosovo and the country's disagreement with certain statements by U.S. officials implying the independence of the province. "I very clearly said that we disagree with the manner in which certain statements are coming from the U.S. that concern the independence of Kosovo, which could happen unless a compromise solution is reached for the future status of Kosovo," Tadic told Serbian state television RTS. Tadic is attending the UN General Assembly in New York. The president added that he had informed Bush and other State Department officials about Serbia's stance in the Kosovo talks during a brief meeting at a reception. "In a meeting with EU High Representative Javier Solana I said that Serbia is ready to discuss any solution, but not its territorial integrity and sovereignty, just as no other normal state in the world would," Tadic added. Speaking about his meetings with the Russian and Chinese foreign ministers, the president said both meetings "confirmed the principled positions" of China, Russia and Serbia concerning the Kosovo talks. Tadic added he was "happy with the friendly and constructive" character of those meetings.
Contact Group meets in New York
The U.S., Russia, Great Britain, France, Germany, and Italy foreign policy chiefs - Condoleezza Rice, Sergei Lavrov, David Miliband, Bernard Kouchner, Frank-Walter Steinmeier, and Massimo D'Alema – will hold the meeting that will also be attended by the mediating Troika envoys, Wolfgang Ischinger, Frank Wisner and Aleksandr Botsan-Kharchenko.Apart from the Troika, the talks will be attended by EU High Representative for Foreign and Security Policy Javier Solana, EU Enlargement Commissioner Olli Rehn and NATO Secretary General Jaap de Hoop Scheffer.
Wednesday, President Boris Tadić said that he had conveyed to U.S. President George W. Bush Serbia's position on Kosovo and the country's disagreement with certain statements by U.S. officials implying the independence of the province.
"I very clearly said that we disagree with the manner in which certain statements are coming from the U.S. that concern the independence of Kosovo, which could happen unless a compromise solution is reached for the future status of Kosovo," Tadić told Serbian state television RTS.
Tadić is attending the UN General Assembly in New York.
The president added that he had informed Bush and other State Department officials about Serbia's stance in the Kosovo talks during a brief meeting at a reception.
"In a meeting with EU High Representative Javier Solana I said that Serbia is ready to discuss any solution, but not its territorial integrity and sovereignty, just as no other normal state in the world would," Tadić added.
Speaking about his meetings with the Russian and Chinese foreign ministers, the president said both meetings "confirmed the principled positions" of China, Russia and Serbia concerning the Kosovo talks.
Tadić added he was "happy with the friendly and constructive" character of those meetings.
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