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PRESIDENTS AND PRIME MINISTERS TO HOLD FIRST KOSOVO SUMMIT
Published in Saudi Press Agency on 23 - 07 - 2006


THE PRESIDENTS AND PRIME MINISTERS FROM BELGRADE
AND PRISTINA PLAN TO CONGREGATE IN VIENNA ON MONDAY FOR THE FIRST
DIRECT TALKS ON THE FUTURE STATUS OF THE SERBIAN PROVINCE OF KOSOVO,
WHICH HAS BEEN UNDER UNITED NATIONS ADMINISTRATION SINCE 1999,DPA REPORTED.
BY INVITATION OF UN ENVOY MARTTI AHTISAARI, THOSE TAKING PART
INCLUDE SERBIAN PRESIDENT BORIS TADIC, PREMIER VOJISLAV KOSTUNICA AND
FOREIGN MINISTER VUK DRASKOVIC.
ON THE PRISTINA SIDE, PRESIDENT FATMIR SEJDIU, PRIME MINISTER AGIM
CEKU AND SPEAKER OF PARLIAMENT KOLE BERISHA PLAN TO ATTEND. EACH SIDE
IS EXPECTED TO HAVE A TOTAL OF ABOUT 15 DELEGATES.
ATTENDING ON PRISTINA'S SIDE ARE POLITICIANS WHO ALREADY TOOK PART
IN THE FAILED RAMBOUILLET KOSOVO PEACE NEGOTIATIONS MORE THAN SEVEN
YEARS AGO, INCLUDING THEN DELEGATION CHIEF AND PRESENT OPPOSITION
POLITICIAN HASHIM THACI AND LEADER OF THE ORA MOVEMENT VETON SURROI.
THE OPPOSING VIEWS ARE STILL FAR APART. ON SATURDAY, KOSTUNICA
SAID, "THE SOONER THE DANGEROUS IDEA IS FORGOTTEN OF SETTING UP A NEW
STATE ON THE TERRITORY OF SERBIA, THE BETTER FOR US ALL, AND
CERTAINLY ALSO FOR THE LASTING STABILITY OF THE REGION AS A WHOLE."
BUT THE PRISTINA SIDE CONTINUES TO SAY THAT FULL INDEPENDENCE IS
THE ONLY ACCEPTABLE SOLUTION.
A MAJOR BREAKTHROUGH IS NOT EXPECTED IN VIENNA. BELGRADE SOURCES
ALREADY TERM AHTISAARI'S TASK OF RECONCILING TWO DIAMETRICALLY
OPPOSED VIEWS AS "MISSION IMPOSSIBLE."
THE BELGRADE NEWSPAPER BLIC SAID ON FRIDAY THE US HAD DRAFTED A
PLAN FOR SERBIA'S FUTURE INTERNATIONAL STATUS. IT INCLUDED
"CONDITIONAL INDEPENDENCE" FOR KOSOVO BY AUTUMN 2007, AND SERBIA'S
EUROPEAN UNION ACCESSION BY 2014.
ON SATURDAY, FOREIGN MINISTER OF THE SUMMIT'S HOST-NATION AUSTRIA
URSULA PLASSNIK APPEALED TO THE TWO SIDES TO USE THE OPPORTUNITY.
"BELGRADE AND PRISTINA HAVE THE CHANCE NOW, WITH THE HELP OF THE
INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY, TO REACH A NEGOTIATED SOLUTION. THERE MUST
BE MORE REALISM AND COMMITMENT," SHE SAID.


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