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Beta (Serbia) August 27, 2007 Jeremiæ leaves official reception BLED - Foreign Minister Vuk Jeremiæ walked out of an official dinner at the Bled Srategic Forum last night. Jeremiæ left the dinner in protest at not being allowed to respond to a speech given by UN Special Envoy Martti Ahtisaari, reports Slovenian state agency, STA. At the dinner attended by more than 100 guests, Ahtisaari gave a speech on Kosovo. According to the agency, despite having been informed otherwise, the Serbian minister was not allowed to give a response to the speech, and walked out of the dining hall. Addressing the other participants, the envoy said that the failure to resolve the Kosovo question was threatening stability in the western Balkans and that it was high time that a solution was found. He urged this to happen as soon as possible after December 10, when the Contact Group is due to announce the results of the additional talks between Belgrade and Priština. "Neither a return to Serbian rule, which the majority of citizens would not in any case accept, nor the continuation of political and legal uncertainty under the leadership of the international community are the right choices." "Rather, the international community has to close this chapter where history has been used to stir up hate and violence," Ahtisaari added. Future EU integration The Bled Strategic Forum, this year held under the title Enlarging and Integrating, opened yesterday. The conference was opened with speeches from the host, Slovenian Prime Minister, Janez Janše, and Foreign Minister, Dimitrij Rupel. The gathering also saw a series of bilateral meetings between numerous government representatives from the participating countries, which was followed by the official dinner, where the UN Special Envoy for Kosovo Martti Ahtisaari gave a speech. The opening ceremony was also attended by Kosovo Prime Minister Agim Ceku, who was not on the official guest list. Furthermore, one of today’s panels at the conference will be led by the Director of the Slovenian Institute for Strategic Studies, Borut Grgiè, who until recently was Rupel’s adviser, and now performs the same role for Ceku. The Serbian Delegation at the conference is led by Foreign Minister Vuk Jeremiæ who will have a working lunch with Rupel. Jeremiæ will take part in a discussion panel throughout the day on the theme of Further European Expansion, while Director of the Balkan Fund for Democracy Ivan Vejvoda will give a speech on the matter. Besides the panel on EU expansion, the conference participants will discuss energy and climate change, the future of EU expansion, as well as global governance. All the aforementioned themes are linked to Slovenia’s upcoming EU presidency in the first half of next year. One of the priorities of the Slovenian presidency will be EU expansion to the west Balkan states, the importance of which was underlined by the Slovenian prime minister and foreign minister, who added that the time had come to implement the commitments undertaken in the Thessalonika agenda. =============== Group Moderator: [Е-ПОШТА ЗАШТИЋЕНА] page at http://magazine.sorabia.net for more informations about current situation in Serbia http://www.sorabia.net Slusajte GLAS SORABIJE nas talk internet-radio (Serbian Only) http://radio.sorabia.net Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/sorabia/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/sorabia/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: mailto:[Е-ПОШТА ЗАШТИЋЕНА] mailto:[Е-ПОШТА ЗАШТИЋЕНА] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [Е-ПОШТА ЗАШТИЋЕНА] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
