Envoy dispatched, Slovenia conference in jeopardy
Slovenian Prime Minister Borut Pahor said that he had sent an envoy to Zagreb and Belgrade to solve a dispute about Kosovo's participation in a conference.
(KosovoCompromise Staff) Wednesday, March 10, 2010
Slovenia plans to host the gathering on March 20, but it is now under a question mark, since Belgrade is objecting to Pristina being represented as an "independent state".
Pahor said that it was now impossible to say that the conference will be held at all, primarily because of that dispute, and added that even if it were to be held, he "could not say that it would be successful".
Previously, Serbia explained to Slovenia, which is organizing the meeting together with Croatia, the Council of Europe and the EC, that it would not attend if Kosovo was not represented in accordance with UN Resolution 1244, in other words, as Kosovo-UNMIK.
However, ethnic Albanian authorities in Pristina are insisting that Kosovo be treated as a "sovereign country".
Adding that there were other differences between potential participants in the meeting, Pahor concluded that the newly created situation meant "biting off more than Slovenia and Croatia could chew as co-organizers", and that they could not say that the conference would be held at all.
