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07-03-2007, 12:29 PM
France for new Kosovo talks without predetermined outcome
July 3rd, 2007
By Ioannis Michaletos
Diplomatic Advisor to the French President Jean David Levit said that he would advocate a compromise UN resolution that will pave the way for negotiations that will not have a predetermined outcome as in the recently expired initiative to grant independence to Kosovo led by Martti Ahtisaari.
Levit said that he sees an active participation of the Contact Group in the process stressing that new talks may not need to have an international mediator and suggested a possibility, in case of a mediator approach, that Ahtisaari may be replaced.
In his talks with the Serbian Deputy Prime Minister Bozidar Djelic, Levit reiterated that Serbia’s EU membership is a separate issue from the solution of the Kosovo status stressing that EU will not force Serbia to give up Kosovo in order to be a member.
Levit also reiterated the obligatory that Kosovo’s independence is “inevitable” while Djelic noted that Serbia will never accept independence.
France is part of the contact group and has its military contingent in Kosovo. Djelic rejected independence as unacceptable.
Commenting on the European commitment to solve the Kosovo status, Albanian separatist paper Koha Ditore says that “Many EU presidencies have come and gone that had Kosovo as ‘a priority’ but the status still remains unresolved”.
According to news service Beta, former Russian Prime Minister Yevgeniy Primakov suggested in the weekend’s editorial that Kosovo should be territorially split between Serbia and Albania.
“Serbia should get the parts of Kosovo populated by Serbs and where the monasteries are located. I believe that Belgrade would also agree with the decision,” Primakov was cited by Beta.
“If Serbs and Albanians do not find a compromise on the future status of Kosovo, then nothing else remains but to divide this territory. Such a division would be justified the more so, because security for the Serb population has not been created in Kosovo,” writes Primakov in the article entitled "The Exit out of the Kosovo Labyrinth".
The French policy in the Balkans is adopting in the emerging strategic landscape of the region. France will assert itself in the Balkans trying to take advantage of the mistakes made by the USA and the dynamics resulting from the Russian advance. Moreover there seems to be a coordination between Germany and France in relation to the Kosovo issue, which for the time being is postponed in infinitum, as far as indepedence is concerned.
The recent “Ahtisaari affair”, created the necessary framework by which the UN is discredited along with the ability of the USA to maintain an impartial role in the Balkans (Of course this was not the case anyway).
The EU and Russia are the ones for the time being able to influence Kosovo negotiations and reconstruct the political landscape of the region.
As far as Ahtisaari is involved:
He still hasn’t pressed charges to the news agency that accuses him (With serious documents) for bribery.
Also he hasn’t been able to defend himself against the concrete documents and reports that are daily published across the globe. Therefore he seems to abandon his intermediary role in the Balkans -And beyond- and heading for its retirement amid a wave of revelations that tarnish UN’s reputation and his own.
“I hope it was worth it, Marti”
My Comment: Perhaps the only solution to the problem is the territorial split of Kosovo.
Source: Serbianna, UNMIK
July 3rd, 2007
By Ioannis Michaletos
Diplomatic Advisor to the French President Jean David Levit said that he would advocate a compromise UN resolution that will pave the way for negotiations that will not have a predetermined outcome as in the recently expired initiative to grant independence to Kosovo led by Martti Ahtisaari.
Levit said that he sees an active participation of the Contact Group in the process stressing that new talks may not need to have an international mediator and suggested a possibility, in case of a mediator approach, that Ahtisaari may be replaced.
In his talks with the Serbian Deputy Prime Minister Bozidar Djelic, Levit reiterated that Serbia’s EU membership is a separate issue from the solution of the Kosovo status stressing that EU will not force Serbia to give up Kosovo in order to be a member.
Levit also reiterated the obligatory that Kosovo’s independence is “inevitable” while Djelic noted that Serbia will never accept independence.
France is part of the contact group and has its military contingent in Kosovo. Djelic rejected independence as unacceptable.
Commenting on the European commitment to solve the Kosovo status, Albanian separatist paper Koha Ditore says that “Many EU presidencies have come and gone that had Kosovo as ‘a priority’ but the status still remains unresolved”.
According to news service Beta, former Russian Prime Minister Yevgeniy Primakov suggested in the weekend’s editorial that Kosovo should be territorially split between Serbia and Albania.
“Serbia should get the parts of Kosovo populated by Serbs and where the monasteries are located. I believe that Belgrade would also agree with the decision,” Primakov was cited by Beta.
“If Serbs and Albanians do not find a compromise on the future status of Kosovo, then nothing else remains but to divide this territory. Such a division would be justified the more so, because security for the Serb population has not been created in Kosovo,” writes Primakov in the article entitled "The Exit out of the Kosovo Labyrinth".
The French policy in the Balkans is adopting in the emerging strategic landscape of the region. France will assert itself in the Balkans trying to take advantage of the mistakes made by the USA and the dynamics resulting from the Russian advance. Moreover there seems to be a coordination between Germany and France in relation to the Kosovo issue, which for the time being is postponed in infinitum, as far as indepedence is concerned.
The recent “Ahtisaari affair”, created the necessary framework by which the UN is discredited along with the ability of the USA to maintain an impartial role in the Balkans (Of course this was not the case anyway).
The EU and Russia are the ones for the time being able to influence Kosovo negotiations and reconstruct the political landscape of the region.
As far as Ahtisaari is involved:
He still hasn’t pressed charges to the news agency that accuses him (With serious documents) for bribery.
Also he hasn’t been able to defend himself against the concrete documents and reports that are daily published across the globe. Therefore he seems to abandon his intermediary role in the Balkans -And beyond- and heading for its retirement amid a wave of revelations that tarnish UN’s reputation and his own.
“I hope it was worth it, Marti”
My Comment: Perhaps the only solution to the problem is the territorial split of Kosovo.
Source: Serbianna, UNMIK