"Unrealistic" Serb positions on Kosovo, charges UN envoy
Vienna - Deputy UN Kosovo envoy Albert Rohan charged Belgrade on Wednesday
with defending "unrealistic positions" in the current Kosovo status talks.
But the Albanian side should also be more willing to compromise in the talks
on the Serbian province of Kosovo which has been under UN administration
since 1999, Rohan said in the newspaper Die Presse.
His interview was in in advance of the latest negotiating round in Vienna on
Wednesday.
In the negotiations in Vienna up till now, there had in part been
considerable agreement on practical issues. But the two sides' concepts were
"totally different," said Rohan.
"The Serb side would like a Serb entity in Kosovo composed of majority Serb
communities and Serbian Orthodox churches and monastries."
The Kosovo-Albanians, on the contrary, were in favour of measures protecting
the Serb community, but only within the course of a normal decentralization
process, and of protection for churches and monastries.
Rohan also commented on a letter by Belgrade complaining about the Kosovo
negotiations so far to the foreign ministers of the United States, Russia,
Britain, Germany, France and Italy.
The letter demanded that the basic question of the status of Kosovo be
discussed immediately, and practical issues only afterwards.
Rohan said: "We regard this letter more as a tactical move by Belgrade to
divert attention from the fact that faster progress is foundering on lack of
willingness to compromise, above all on the Serb side."
He also pointed out that the schedule and issues of the negotiations were
the exclusive responsibility of UN chief envoy Martti Ahtisaari.
On Tuesday, Kosovo turned down Serbia's proposal that it remain under United
Nations auspices during a 20-year transition period. Pristina said it would
not back away from its bid for full independence.
Describing Belgrade's offer as an "unacceptable offer for tutorship,"
Pristina's deputy premier Lutfi Haziri said that Kosovo "will not make a
compromise over independence."
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