Fifty diplomats preventing new recognitions of Kosovo
After today's announcement of the opinion by the International Court of Justice in The Hague over Kosovo independence, Serbia shall have already prepared detailed plan of further activities on the international scale. The goal is to prevent any further recognitions of Pristina and that the UN General Assembly calls on for new negotiations, daily Blic writes.
(KosovoCompromise Staff) Thursday, July 22, 2010
Within the first measure, diplomatic envoys shall be sent to over 50 countries in order to explain the stance of Serbia and the necessity that a peaceful solution acceptable for both sides is reached through negotiations, ‘Blic' learns from high state sources.
Serbia President Boris Tadic said that ‘Serbia is ready for every decision by the ICJ' but that he ‘expects an opinion that shall mean that Kosovo Albanians do not have the right to ethnically motivated secession from Serbia'.
‘We would no longer live in the same world if the decision by the ICJ would legalized Pristina's attempt of secession', Serbia President warned.
‘As regards the EU offer to write a resolution for the UN General Assembly together with Serbia, our country has red lines that represent the integrity of our country in Kosovo. We are talking with the EU as a partner and as a country whose goal is to become the EU member, however, I have told our European friends about principles that Serbia shall not give up. Those are the principles concerning territorial integrity of our country', Tadic said.
Tadic also announced public discussion ‘through all institutions of the system, with opposition and non-government organizations' to be opened after announcement of the ICJ opinion.
‘The Government and me as the President shall act in line with the Constitution. We are optimistic, we have a plan', Tadic said.
As ‘Blic' learns at Serbian Government the reply to the EU offer for mutual resolution shall be sent to Brussels only after announcement of the decision by the ICJ. In the meantime there is ongoing activity through diplomatic channels trying to moderate the EU hard stance that negotiations over the status must
