Tadic: Early to speculate about dialogue
Serbian President Boris Tadic has stated in New York that it is at the moment "early to speculate" about modality of Belgrade and Pristina's future dialogue. UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon the readiness of the United Nations to help.
(KosovoCompromise Staff) Wednesday, September 22, 2010
Tadic announced that this dialogue would be discussed at a meeting with EU High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy Catherine Ashton on September 23.
"My obligation is to clarify to citizens and political public that it is early to speculate about the modality of the dialogue between Belgrade and Priština: form and topics of the dialogue should be formulated first," Tadic stressed.
After opinion of the International Court of Justice (ICJ) all parties have kept elements of their own policies but they have also defined a process that should resolve, as he said, issues related to the people in Kosovo.
UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon also stressed the importance of dialogue between Belgrade and Pristina.
In bilateral meetings with European leaders on the margins of a three-day summit on the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) he expressed the readiness of the United Nations to contribute to this effort.
