Pristina seeks ways to coordinate talks with Belgrade

Officials of the (interim) Kosovo authority are still in two minds about the way in which possible talks with Belgrade should be coordinated, the Pristina daily Koha Ditore reported Thursday, adding, however, that the Kosovo president and government are making effort to include other factors in the process.

(KosovoCompromise Staff) Friday, June 18, 2010

The paper assesses that Kosovo Albanian institutions are still unceratin as to how things should be coordinated between the position, the opposision and the civil society before holding possible talks with Serbia, which are expected to take place after the advisory opinion of the International Court of Justice (ICJ) on Kosovo's unilateral declaration of independence. The role of the international factor is not excluded, the paper adds.

While the Kosovo Albanian government does not rule out the possibility that consensual atmosphere during the talks be created with the help of some special mechanism, Kosovo President Fatmir Sejdiu believes that it is the institutions that should manage this process, but does not exclude the possibility of engaging people outside of the ruling coalition.