Solution for Kosovo must be found, speaker says

BELGRADE Serbian parliament Speaker Nebojsa Stefanovic expects the Serbian negotiating team to get a more favorable offer than the last one. “The important thing is that we need to reach that solution, for the sake of our country’s future,” he told B92 and added that he believed a solution would be reached today, tomorrow or in the next several weeks. Solution for Kosovo must be found, speaker says He noted that it would be reached because “Serbia’s EU integration has no alternative”. The speaker said that First Deputy PM Aleksandar Vucic had hinted at a more favorable offer. When asked what had changed since the previous, failed round of the talks, Stefanovic said that everybody had realized that no strategic deal or a solution would be reached without an agreement with Serbia. “Serbian negotiators in Brussels are trying to find a compromise solution, according to which both sides would lose something and get something and a solution that can be implemented in the field because if it cannot be implemented it has no point,” the speaker explained. According to him, “Serbia needs to think about the future and the agreement needs to be reached but there are red lines we will not cross”. He stressed that those “red lines” were incorporation of three municipalities in Kosovska Mitrovica in order to get a single territory with a majority Serb population, police that would have a Serb chief for Serb-dominated areas and the judiciary that Serbs would be able to choose. “The Serbian government and president have a common stance on the issue of Kosovo and this is a matter of Serbia not any individual,” Stefanovic pointed out. When asked whether parliament would hold a session to discuss the Brussels agreement, he said that it would but “once there is something to discuss”. “It would be meaningless to schedule a session to discuss something on which an agreement has not been reached yet,” the speaker pointed out. “Once the agreement is reached, a session will be scheduled and MPs will voice their opinion on the agreement,” he said and added that he believed that the Serbian negotiating team and especially Vucic would make the right decision. Nebojsa Stefanovic (Tanjug, file) B92

Solution for Kosovo must be found, speaker says

He noted that it would be reached because “Serbia’s EU integration has no alternative”.

The speaker said that First Deputy PM Aleksandar Vučić had hinted at a more favorable offer.

When asked what had changed since the previous, failed round of the talks, Stefanović said that everybody had realized that no strategic deal or a solution would be reached without an agreement with Serbia.

“Serbian negotiators in Brussels are trying to find a compromise solution, according to which both sides would lose something and get something and a solution that can be implemented in the field because if it cannot be implemented it has no point,” the speaker explained.

According to him, “Serbia needs to think about the future and the agreement needs to be reached but there are red lines we will not cross”.

He stressed that those “red lines” were incorporation of three municipalities in Kosovska Mitrovica in order to get a single territory with a majority Serb population, police that would have a Serb chief for Serb-dominated areas and the judiciary that Serbs would be able to choose.

“The Serbian government and president have a common stance on the issue of Kosovo and this is a matter of Serbia not any individual,” Stefanović pointed out.

When asked whether parliament would hold a session to discuss the Brussels agreement, he said that it would but “once there is something to discuss”.

“It would be meaningless to schedule a session to discuss something on which an agreement has not been reached yet,” the speaker pointed out.

“Once the agreement is reached, a session will be scheduled and MPs will voice their opinion on the agreement,” he said and added that he believed that the Serbian negotiating team and especially Vučić would make the right decision.