Kosovo team convenes tomorrow

Kosovo team convenes tomorrow

Belgrade team member and President’s advisor Dušan Bataković said that Serbian President Boris Tadić already confirmed his presence at the concluding meeting in Vienna due to take place on Saturday, March 10.

Srđan Đurić, chief spokesman for the Serbian government, said that the delegation might be composed of government’s ministers or headed by the president and prime minister.

The meeting between the state negotiating team and the caucus chiefs announced for today has been rescheduled for a later date, probably after the Belgrade negotiating team thoroughly considered the revised proposal.

"Following the meeting of caucus chiefs and Serbia's negotiators, the National Parliament should convene to adopt its position and policy towards the revised proposal as Serbia’s platform for the upcoming meeting in Vienna scheduled for Saturday, March 10", the DS representatives said.

The Democratic Party caucus chief Dušan petrović announced that the Belgrade team members would submit the report on the final round of talks in Vienna. He also said that the caucus chiefs should agree on the proceedings for the next parliamentary session convened to discuss the revised proposal of the UN Envoy’s plan for the future status of Kosovo.

The Serb Radical Party may pose a problem, as they demanded that the Parliament elect its bodies first, so that the speaker could schedule and preside over the next parliamentary session.

SRS deputy president Tomislav Nikolić said that the inaugural session was not yet completed, as the Constitution unequivocally implies that the second parliamentary session must be assembled by a speaker elected in the inaugural session, adding that any further debate in Parliament was thereby impossible.

Miloš Aligrudić, the Democratic Party of Serbia's caucus chief, agreed with his SRS counterpart on the interpretation of the Constitution dictating the necessity of creating parliamentary bodies.

However, he explained that it was hardly possible to form the bodies over the next two or three days, as the process draws heavily upon the arrangement of the future government. Aligrudić nonetheless believes that the problem could be solved by renewing a mutual understanding of the urgency of the Kosovo issue.