Bogdanovic: New negotiations are needed

Serbia keeps insisting on new negotiations with Kosovo because joint European future awaits all communities, Serbian minister for Kosovo Goran Bogdanovic was quoted as saying.

(KosovoCompromise Staff) Friday, February 26, 2010

"We wish to solve problems through talks, we want peace, because there cannot be happiness for anybody, not only in Kosovo, but also in Serbia, in the entire Balkans," the minister said.

"But talks are difficult when you have a party which got everything it asked for and Serbs on the other side who lost everything," KIM Radio reported, according to FoNet.

"We must find a compromise, we have to solve common problems, because joint European future awaits all communities," the minister said.

He pointed out that "European values and future" could not be fought for in a way the government in Pristina was doing.

"You cannot fight for the European values if there is no freedom of movement for all communities, if there is no legal protection, if not a single culprit for any ethnic crime which happened in the last ten years has been solved."

"It is up to authorities in Pristina to find those perpetrators," Bogdanovic said.

Regarding on possible meeting with Sejdiu, at next month's summit of Western Balkan leaders in Slovenia, Serbian president Boris Tadic stressed that he does not mind Kosovo's participation in regional meetings, as long as it is done in accordance with UN Resolution 1244 and if it is presented as UNMIK-Kosovo.

During his visit to Berlin, Tadic spoke with President of the Bundestag Norbert Lammert and said that Serbia will continue to fight its battle for the preservation of the country's territorial integrity in Kosovo in a peaceful manner, exclusively by diplomatic and legal means.