Government’s strategy for settlement of Kosovo issue
Diplomatic war for negotiations in 2010 Tamara Spaic | 11. 01. 2010. - 07:54h | Foto: AFP | Komentara: <http://english.blic.rs/In-Focus/5821/Diplomatic-war-for-negotiations-in-2010/komentari> 0 The year of 2010 shall be marked by search for solution to Kosovo problem and that shall be the most difficult problem that the authorities in Serbia intend to solve, ‘Blic’ learns from a high source at Serbia Government. The steps have been already taken that ‘literally a day after the International Court of Justice announces its opinion over legality of proclamation of Kosovo independence a session of the UN SC is scheduled’ and that ‘a dynamic progress is made in initiating negotiations for finding of solution between Belgrade and Pristina’ because ‘the strategic goal of Serbia – the EU membership shall not be possible without this issue solved’, our source adds. Although experts in foreign policy relations such as Ivan Vejvoda (Director of the Balkan fund for democracy) and Ivan Vujacic (former Serbian ambassador to the USA) say for ‘Blic’ that ‘solution to Kosovo cannot be found either easily or quickly’, the authorities in Belgrade are determined to make ‘a rapid breakthrough’ in settlement of the chief Serbian problem. ‘From the point of view of the global policy, the region of the West Balkans has three huge problems, all three depending on Serbia: Kosovo, BiH (status of the Republic of Srpska) and the NATO (military neutrality of Serbia). We cannot solve all of these problems simultaneously but we can start solving the most important one, Kosovo. Because of global problems, internal problems and tiredness with the EU enlargement, the EU would probably to put the issue of the West Balkans aside and it is our task to animate the EU and made it deal with our problems and help us reach a sustainable solution for Kosovo through dialog and negotiations’, our high source says. The plan for Kosovo does not envisage any solution being offered by Belgrade, but that the EU is animated to participate via the UN SC. The plan has been already supported by many of the EU members. ‘It is hard to imagine that Serbia can solve its main problem without support and help by the USA and the EU’, Ivan Vejvoda says. http://english.blic.rs/In-Focus/5821/Diplomatic-war-for-negotiations-in-2010
