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Serbian leaders reject UN enoy's plan for Kosovo
Published in Saudi Press Agency on 08 - 03 - 2007


Serbian President Boris Tadic and
caretaker Prime Minister Vojislav Kostunica will go to Vienna
Saturday to tell a UN envoy that they reject his plan envisaging
independence for Kosovo. it was stated late Thursday, according to dpa.
After meeting to discuss the UN envoy Martti Ahtisaaari's revised
plan for Kosovo, the Belgrade leaders said that they were rejecting
the draft plan as "unacceptable" because it violated Serbia's
sovereignty by paving the way for Kosovo's independence.
"The document ... was unacceptable for Serbia because not a single
amendment (proposed) by Belgrade pertaining to sovereignty and
territorial integrity of Serbia was accepted," the Serbian leaders
said in a statement.
The plan envisaged Kosovo's internationally supervised slide
toward full statehood. It was welcomed by the majority Albanians in
the province for the same reason which enraged Serbia.
The two sides led futile negotations, mediated by the special UN
envoy Martti Ahtisaari, over the past year. While the Albanians want
nothing short of independence, Belgrade said it would "never allow
dismemberment" of its territory and offered Kosovo only an autonomy.
The final round of the talks, with little talks actually expected
to take place, was scheduled for Saturday in Vienna, the venue of the
negotiations held since early 2006.
The Finnish diplomat has hammered out a draft proposal in early
February and has revised it for Saturday's final, high-level meeting
after which he plans to send the document to the UN Security Council.
Kosovo's entire political leadership, awaiting Saturday with
optimism as opposed to Belgrade's bitterness, was to travel to Vienna
to formally receive Ahitsaari's plan.
"What we can say about the package is that it creates the essence
of the future state of Kosovo," President Fatmir Sejdiu said after
Pristina negotiators met Thursday.
Antisaari's plan was backed by the EU and NATO, as well as the big
western powers individually. But Russia, which Belgrade hopes would
block the plan in the Security Council, has expressed its
reservations about it.


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