Posted on 07/10/2006 1:33:41 PM PDT by kronos77
BELGRADE, Serbia, July 10 (UPI) -- Serbia's premier flew to Washington Monday to tell U.S. and U.N. officials Belgrade will not accept an independent Kosovo province.
Premier Vojislav Kostunica is to address the U.N. Security Council Thursday to "warn that every imposed solution (about Kosovo's future) and snatching away 15 percent of its territory is absolutely unacceptable for Serbia," a Serbian government spokesman said.
Milos Aligrudic, a ranking official of Kostunica's ruling Serbian Democratic Party, said the prime minister will tell U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice that Serbia is "ready to negotiate about everything except about Kosovo's independence."
Aligrudic told reporters in Belgrade that Serbia advocates a compromise solution to U.N.-led talks between the Serbian government and the Kosovo ethnic-Albanian leadership.
However, Serbia will not accept a compromise which would swap independence of the mainly ethnic-Albanian Kosovo for human rights of the Kosovo Serb minority of 100,000. Kosovo's 1.8 million population is 90 percent ethnic-Albanian.
The Serbian-Albanian talks will decide who will govern Kosovo, once U.N. and NATO personnel leave the province.
Hope for the best...
No, PRAY for the Best -- and write Bush and your Congress reps ASAP!
Bump!
Well, it seems that something is moving........
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