Serbia-EU top officials to discuss Kosovo in Brussels
Top Serbian and EU officials will meet in Brussels on Wednesday to discuss the Kosovo status process after last weekend’s Gymnich meeting of EU foreign ministers in Portugal and amid a controversy provoked by a US pledge to support a possible unilateral declaration of independence by the Kosovo Albanian leadership in Pristina.
(KosovoCompromise Staff) Tuesday, September 11, 2007
Serbia's Prime minister Vojislav Kostunica and Minister for Kosovo Slobodan Samardzic are due to meet the president of the European Commission Jose Manuel Barroso, EU's High Representative for Security and Foreign Affairs Javier Solana and the president of the European Parliament, Hans-Gert Potering.
Kostunica and Samardzic are arriving in Brussels upon Barroso's invitation, with whom they will discuss over lunch, in the company of EU enlargement commissioner Olli Rehn.
Rehn called yesterday on all international actors and the two parties in the status talks to adopt a "constructive and creative" attitude towards the Kosovo talks led by the EU-Russia-US troika, which has received a strong support by the EU foreign ministers at last weekend's meeting.
The topic of European integration is likely to be another high-profile theme at the Wednesday meeting.
Serbia's Deputy Prime Minister Bozidar Djelic, who met Rehn on Monday, repeated the common EU and Serbian stand that the issues of Kosovo status and European integrations were not linked.
