U.S. deputy assistant secretary to visit Belgrade

U.S. Deputy Assistant Secretary Philip Reeker will pay a visit to Belgrade from Thursday until January 21, U.S. Embassy in Belgrade confirmed to Tanjug.

Izvor: Tanjug

Thursday, 19.01.2012.

09:09

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U.S. Deputy Assistant Secretary Philip Reeker will pay a visit to Belgrade from Thursday until January 21, U.S. Embassy in Belgrade confirmed to Tanjug. Belgrade team chief Borislav Stefanovic expects that one of main topics of the talks will be Serbian President Boris Tadic's four-point plan for resolving the Kosovo issue. U.S. deputy assistant secretary to visit Belgrade Stefanovic told Tanjug that Serbia would have a chance to explain its position and present the plan to the U.S. partners, who have an important role in stabilizing the situation in the Balkans, but also a great influence on Pristina. Commenting a statement by British Ambassador to Kosovo Ian Cliff that Serbia should abolish the so-called parallel institutions in northern Kosovo before the talks on Tadic's plan, Stefanovic said that Serbia could not and would never agree to something like that. "Legally elected institutions and the only institutional framework that exists in the north cannot be abolished," he pointed out. He is convinced that the international community and Belgrade will start a process of negotiating Tadic's plan and that they will define through this process the following four points - special status for the north, protection of cultural and religious heritage, protection and safety of property of Serbs in Kosovo, and return of refugees - as being of essential importance for a sustainable solution. The team head added that among the topics of the talks with Reeker would be everything that is related to the Kosovo issue - continued negotiating process, possible improvements, implementation of agreements reached, and solution of regional representation of Pristina, which is one of the conditions for Serbia to finally receive the status of candidate for EU membership in March. Reeker is on a tour of the Western Balkans, where he will have a series of meetings with political leaders and representatives of civil society. He has already visited Pristina and Skopje, and will visit Turkey and Austria until January 26. Philip Reeker (Tanjug, file) Tanjug

U.S. deputy assistant secretary to visit Belgrade

Stefanović told Tanjug that Serbia would have a chance to explain its position and present the plan to the U.S. partners, who have an important role in stabilizing the situation in the Balkans, but also a great influence on Priština.

Commenting a statement by British Ambassador to Kosovo Ian Cliff that Serbia should abolish the so-called parallel institutions in northern Kosovo before the talks on Tadić's plan, Stefanović said that Serbia could not and would never agree to something like that.

"Legally elected institutions and the only institutional framework that exists in the north cannot be abolished," he pointed out.

He is convinced that the international community and Belgrade will start a process of negotiating Tadić's plan and that they will define through this process the following four points - special status for the north, protection of cultural and religious heritage, protection and safety of property of Serbs in Kosovo, and return of refugees - as being of essential importance for a sustainable solution.

The team head added that among the topics of the talks with Reeker would be everything that is related to the Kosovo issue - continued negotiating process, possible improvements, implementation of agreements reached, and solution of regional representation of Priština, which is one of the conditions for Serbia to finally receive the status of candidate for EU membership in March.

Reeker is on a tour of the Western Balkans, where he will have a series of meetings with political leaders and representatives of civil society.

He has already visited Priština and Skopje, and will visit Turkey and Austria until January 26.

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