Djuric: Dialogue with Pristina continues
The dialogue with Pristina continues, a point in the platform on Kosovo was reworded and there will be no more agreements inconsistent with the platform, Adviser to the Serbian president Marko Djuric has said.
(KosovoCompromiseStuff) Monday, December 24, 2012
Djuric said that there were no essential differences of opinion among senior government officials concerning the KiM platform and that Prime Minister Ivica Dacic supported the views expressed in the "in- progress material" of the document, adding that some of the original wording was revised in the process of the political shaping of the text.
Djuric pointed out that a paragraph about suspending the technical talks with Pristina was replaced by a paragraph guaranteeing that all agreements from the technical dialogue had to be in conformity with the platform.
"We want all further agreements in the technical dialogue to be arrived at solely based on this platform. There will be no more signing any agreements the goals of which are not quite clear," Djuric has said in a talk show broadcast by Belgrade-based TV B92.
While explaining, as he put it, the dualism of the platform that enables both sides to preserve their dignity, Djuric said that the institutions in Pristina can be regarded as institutions of the Republic of Kosovo only viewing from an internal political perspective in Kosovo, but when it came to Serbia, the institutions were institutions of an autonomous province that could be delegated certain powers by the constitutional law.
In the future, he stressed, Serbia will not be making any more concessions on the ground without strong, positive guarantees about the position of the Serb community in Kosovo.
Former head of Belgrade's negotiating team and member of the Democratic Party (DS) Borko Stefanovic does not agree with Djuric, saying that Serbia's policy on Kosovo was "ripped apart" and that more than 90 percent of the proposals in the platform were impossible to realize.
Stefanovic believes there are profound differences when it comes to the policy towards Kosovo between President Tomislav Nikolic and Prime Minister Ivica Dacic.
"Neither the Serbian government nor the parliament will adopt this paper," said Stevanovic, who believes that the platform conforms to the policy of the Democratic Party of Serbia, aimed at preserving the frozen conflict and passing on the Kosovo problem to future generations.
Leon Kojen, former advisor to the Serbian president and former coordinator of Serbia's state team in the talks on Kosovo that took place in Vienna, believes that the solutions presented in the platform should be seriously analyzed so that the public could say if they really contribute to the preservation of the state and national interests.
"I am not surprised by the controversy that has managed to reach the public. Politically speaking, this is the first attempt by the new government to move away from the policies of the Democratic Party government and Boris Tadic (former DS leader and Serbian president). Until the adoption of the platform, the new government was pursuing the same policy as the previous government," said Kojen.
Djuric pointed out that a paragraph about suspending the technical talks with Pristina was replaced by a paragraph guaranteeing that all agreements from the technical dialogue had to be in conformity with the platform.
"We want all further agreements in the technical dialogue to be arrived at solely based on this platform. There will be no more signing any agreements the goals of which are not quite clear," Djuric has said in a talk show broadcast by Belgrade-based TV B92.
While explaining, as he put it, the dualism of the platform that enables both sides to preserve their dignity, Djuric said that the institutions in Pristina can be regarded as institutions of the Republic of Kosovo only viewing from an internal political perspective in Kosovo, but when it came to Serbia, the institutions were institutions of an autonomous province that could be delegated certain powers by the constitutional law.
In the future, he stressed, Serbia will not be making any more concessions on the ground without strong, positive guarantees about the position of the Serb community in Kosovo.
Former head of Belgrade's negotiating team and member of the Democratic Party (DS) Borko Stefanovic does not agree with Djuric, saying that Serbia's policy on Kosovo was "ripped apart" and that more than 90 percent of the proposals in the platform were impossible to realize.
Stefanovic believes there are profound differences when it comes to the policy towards Kosovo between President Tomislav Nikolic and Prime Minister Ivica Dacic.
"Neither the Serbian government nor the parliament will adopt this paper," said Stevanovic, who believes that the platform conforms to the policy of the Democratic Party of Serbia, aimed at preserving the frozen conflict and passing on the Kosovo problem to future generations.
Leon Kojen, former advisor to the Serbian president and former coordinator of Serbia's state team in the talks on Kosovo that took place in Vienna, believes that the solutions presented in the platform should be seriously analyzed so that the public could say if they really contribute to the preservation of the state and national interests.
"I am not surprised by the controversy that has managed to reach the public. Politically speaking, this is the first attempt by the new government to move away from the policies of the Democratic Party government and Boris Tadic (former DS leader and Serbian president). Until the adoption of the platform, the new government was pursuing the same policy as the previous government," said Kojen.
