Still no agreement on Slovenia conference

7 March 2010 | 10:37 | Source: B92

LJUBLJANA -- No agreement has been reached over a formula that would allow both Belgrade and Priština to take part in an informal conference in Slovenia on March 20. Tadić recently met with Slovenian and Croatian PMs (Beta) Slovenia's Foreign Minister Samuel Žbogar said on Saturday that the Kosovo Albanian representatives would be taking part under a formula already used in the EU format, namely, that "participating states take part without their names written", and that "UNMIK too would be invited to the gathering". The cabinet of Serbian President Boris Tadić reacted to this by stating that such an agreement was not reached, and that Serbia still insists that Kosovo must be represented in line with UNSC Resolution 1244, as Kosovo-UNMIK. At the same time, the Kosovo Albanian president and prime minister, Fatmir Sejdiu and Hashim Thaci, said that they would travel to Slovenia "only as representatives of the state of Kosovo". According to media reports in Ljubljana, Žbogar would not make any further comments on this, saying only that "things change and that many details won't be harmonized until the last day". But he did state once again that "both Tadić and Thaci confirmed their presence" at the forthcoming regional conference, "as did all other leaders of the Western Balkans countries that have been invited".