No conflict between Nikolic, Dacic over platform
Director of the Serbian government Office for Cooperation with the Media Milivoje Mihajlovic stated on Monday that there are no conflicts between Serbian President Tomislav Nikolic and Prime Minister Ivica Dacic over the platform for Kosovo.
(KosovoCompromiseStuff) Monday, December 24, 2012
During a programme broadcast by Radio and Television Serbia, Mihajlovic expressed the expectation that the platform would win greater support as time goes by and that it is not up to Belgrade to assess the degree to which it can be implemented because major power centres would decide on this, as well as Albanians and Serbs.
When asked about media reports that immediately after New Year, the parliament should discuss the Serbian government document containing guidelines for the negotiating team to follow in the dialogue on Kosovo, Mihajlovic said that this is a platform for resolving the Kosovo issue and not a platform for the talks.
Pointing out that the talks are an ongoing parallel process, Mihajlovic stated that certain progress has been made in the two meetings between Dacic and head of the Kosovo interim government Hasim Taci.
A false dilemma has been created in the public according to which the technical talks and the platform offering a lasting solution to the Kosovo issue are in conflict, Mihajlovic said.
He announced that the government and parliament will most likely discuss the documents which will in a way confirm the matters Prime Minister Dacic is discussing in Brussels.
The dialogue will lead to a political solution and the platform is an offer because world power centres and Kosovo Albanians and Serbs need to voice their opinion on it, Mihajlovic said.
Commenting on the reactions to the platform, one of which arrived from Pristina and another from analyst Daniel Server, Mihajlovic said that nobody seriously tackled the content of the platform.
He stated that there was no genuine serious reaction either from the EU or Washington, or Moscow or even from Albania.
There is no reaction to the most serious propositions such as demilitarisation of Kosovo which is envisaged in the platform, Miahjlovic said and added that this is the fundamental issue in terms of peace in the time to come.
Professor of international relations at the U.S. Johns Hopkins University and an expert in the situation in the Balkans Daniel Server believes that Serbia's platform for Kosovo will aggravate the Belgrade-Pristina talks considerably.
It seems that the platform is Belgrade's realistic position and it indicates what Serbia truly wants, Server said and added that the document will make the talks much harder, while the Serbian Constitution makes the negotiators' position almost impossible.
When asked about media reports that immediately after New Year, the parliament should discuss the Serbian government document containing guidelines for the negotiating team to follow in the dialogue on Kosovo, Mihajlovic said that this is a platform for resolving the Kosovo issue and not a platform for the talks.
Pointing out that the talks are an ongoing parallel process, Mihajlovic stated that certain progress has been made in the two meetings between Dacic and head of the Kosovo interim government Hasim Taci.
A false dilemma has been created in the public according to which the technical talks and the platform offering a lasting solution to the Kosovo issue are in conflict, Mihajlovic said.
He announced that the government and parliament will most likely discuss the documents which will in a way confirm the matters Prime Minister Dacic is discussing in Brussels.
The dialogue will lead to a political solution and the platform is an offer because world power centres and Kosovo Albanians and Serbs need to voice their opinion on it, Mihajlovic said.
Commenting on the reactions to the platform, one of which arrived from Pristina and another from analyst Daniel Server, Mihajlovic said that nobody seriously tackled the content of the platform.
He stated that there was no genuine serious reaction either from the EU or Washington, or Moscow or even from Albania.
There is no reaction to the most serious propositions such as demilitarisation of Kosovo which is envisaged in the platform, Miahjlovic said and added that this is the fundamental issue in terms of peace in the time to come.
Professor of international relations at the U.S. Johns Hopkins University and an expert in the situation in the Balkans Daniel Server believes that Serbia's platform for Kosovo will aggravate the Belgrade-Pristina talks considerably.
It seems that the platform is Belgrade's realistic position and it indicates what Serbia truly wants, Server said and added that the document will make the talks much harder, while the Serbian Constitution makes the negotiators' position almost impossible.
