Kosovo Serbs condemn State Dept. views

A senior Kosovo Serb has dismissed U.S. calls for the international community to take control over northern Kosovo.

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Thursday, 24.07.2008.

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A senior Kosovo Serb has dismissed U.S. calls for the international community to take control over northern Kosovo. “I think this is a scandalous statement, the goal of which is to push the northern part of Kosovo into an independent Kosovo,” Deputy Speaker of the Kosovo Serb assembly Marko Jaksic told Beta in response to remarks from senior U.S. State Department official Daniel Fried yesterday. Kosovo Serbs condemn State Dept. views He added that “they don’t care about control by the international community, but that of the ‘Shiptars’ (Kosovo Albanians) in Pristina.” Jaksic pointed out that Serbian state institutions in the north of the province were functioning “much better than the institutions of the independent state of Kosovo that Fried has created”. The deputy speaker said that Russia and China were also members of the international community, and that they had completely opposing positions on Kosovo to that of Fried. The U.S. under secretary of state for European affairs said yesterday that Washington wanted the international community to reassume control in the north of the province, where Serbs make up the majority of the population. “Northern Kosovo is now beyond the law. Some sort of presence of the international community should exist in that region, and it cannot be exempt from control, or be outside Kosovo,” Fried said. Marko Jaksic (FoNet, archive)

Kosovo Serbs condemn State Dept. views

He added that “they don’t care about control by the international community, but that of the ‘Shiptars’ (Kosovo Albanians) in Priština.”

Jakšić pointed out that Serbian state institutions in the north of the province were functioning “much better than the institutions of the independent state of Kosovo that Fried has created”.

The deputy speaker said that Russia and China were also members of the international community, and that they had completely opposing positions on Kosovo to that of Fried.

The U.S. under secretary of state for European affairs said yesterday that Washington wanted the international community to reassume control in the north of the province, where Serbs make up the majority of the population.

“Northern Kosovo is now beyond the law. Some sort of presence of the international community should exist in that region, and it cannot be exempt from control, or be outside Kosovo,” Fried said.

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