DSS to back resolution if amendments are adopted
The Democratic Party of Serbia (DSS) will support the resolution on Kosovo if its amendments meant to fix contradictions and harmonize the document with the Constitution are accepted, head of the DSS group in the parliament Slobodan Samardzic said on Thursday.
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"The resolution has to be amended to be clear and without contradiction," Samardzic noted, adding that the DSS would be constructive, but follow its years-long political agenda.
URS: Serbia's proactive stand on KiM
Vladimir Ilic, head of the parliamentary group of the United Regions of Serbia (URS) which is a party of the ruling coalition, voiced hope that the parliament would demonstrate a high degree of national unity and adopt the draft resolution on principles for further talks with Pristina on Saturday.
He qualified Serbia's proactive stand as a good thing in this resolution in comparison to the previous documents on Kosovo-Metohija.
"I think that we have so far been on the defensive to a great extent," Ilic told reporters at the parliament, underscoring that Serbia is now entering the talks ready for certain concessions, but not the ones that bring its national interests into question.
"Serbia is entering the negotiations with representatives of the interim self-government institutions in Pristina with a view to strengthening the position of Serbs and other non-Albanians in Kosovo, creating prerequisites for the return of the displaced and ensuring further EU integration," Ilic underlined.
LDP will not back resolution on Kosovo
MP of the opposition Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) Ivan Andric has said on Thursday that the party will not back the draft resolution on Kosovo-Metohija, as to which the Serbian parliament should deliver its opinion on Saturday.
The draft resolution is too general, and the exposition that is equally important differs from the content of the resolution to a great extent, Andric told reporters in the Serbian parliament.
"An effort has been made to achieve a clumsy technical compromise, in which the government's stand will be in the part referring to the resolution, and the stand of the president and his office in the part that is called exposition," he explained.
That illustrates that the ruling majority failed to find a common stand on Kosovo-Metohija, Andric noted.
