EU facilitator: Talks will continue in January

EU facilitator Robert Cooper expects that a date for the continuation of the Belgrade-Pristina talks will be set next week. He added he expected Belgrade and Pristina team chiefs Borislav Stefanovic and Edita Tahiri to determine the date. EU facilitator: Talks will continue in January Pristina-based Albanian language daily Koha Ditore writes that Cooper has been in constant contact with Stefanovic and Tahiri and that he has requested that they bring their positions regarding regional cooperation a little closer. International sources say however that neither Stefanovic nor Tahiri have changed their positions but that Cooper is determined to hold the new round of the negotiations this month, the daily writes. Quoting the international sources from Brussels and Pristina, Koha Ditore writes that Kosovo has given up on the request to be represented as the “Republic of Kosovo” at the international meetings and that it would accept a footnote under its name. According to the daily, there is a disagreement about the content of the footnote since Belgrade wants the UN Security Council Resolution 1244 mentioned in it. Robert Cooper (Tanjug, file) Tanjug

EU facilitator: Talks will continue in January

Priština-based Albanian language daily Koha Ditore writes that Cooper has been in constant contact with Stefanović and Tahiri and that he has requested that they bring their positions regarding regional cooperation a little closer.

International sources say however that neither Stefanović nor Tahiri have changed their positions but that Cooper is determined to hold the new round of the negotiations this month, the daily writes.

Quoting the international sources from Brussels and Priština, Koha Ditore writes that Kosovo has given up on the request to be represented as the “Republic of Kosovo” at the international meetings and that it would accept a footnote under its name.

According to the daily, there is a disagreement about the content of the footnote since Belgrade wants the UN Security Council Resolution 1244 mentioned in it.