Jeremic: Serbia wants Kosovo compromise
Serbian Foreign Minister Vuk Jeremic stated in an interview for Austrian state radio that Serbia is in favor of a compromise solution regarding Kosovo.
(KosovoCompromise Staff) Tuesday, June 22, 2010
The minister, who was in Vienna on Monday attending an OSCE session, added that Belgrade would keep insisting on negotiations on the status of the province.
"As far as Kosovo is concerned, Serbia will not change its policy by one iota," Jeremic said.
Serbia wants to create an international situation in which it will be obvious that a certain kind of compromise is necessary. However, the unilaterally declared independence of Kosovo is no compromise, so it must be something else," Jeremic was quoted as saying.
"The International Court of Justice shall inform the UN over its opinion in the near future. We do not expect that debate at the UN General Assembly to follow after the ICJ report causes splitting", Serbian Foreign Minister said at the session of the OSCE Permanent Council.
According to his words the only logical outcome of the debate should be a call on the parties involved to search for a solution over opened issues through dialog. He pointed out that "the OSCE have been for two years already divided over Kosovo issue".
"We want an outcome acceptable for all sides because that is the only possible way to have a permanent and sustainable peace, to secure regional progress and finalize European transformation of the Balkans", Jeremic explained.
He requested the principle of European consensus to be applied in settlement of Kosovo problem, too.
"If that principle is being used in settlement of all challenges in Europe, why then Kosovo should be an exception?", Jeremic asked.
