President wants "historic Kosovo solution"

18 March 2011 | 10:27 | Source: Tanjug

BELGRADE -- A solution for the Serbian-Albanian conflict cannot be a scenario in which Serbia will recognize Kosovo's independence, said Serbian President Boris Tadić. He believes that the solution must not be such that one side wins everything while the other loses everything. The Serbian president told Priština-based TV station Klan Kosova that he hoped the introductory phase of the ongoing talks between Serbia and Kosovo would be followed by a search for that essential solution to the underlying conflict. “Any agreement between Serbs and Albanians has to be legitimized by acceptance from both sides. Representatives of the people cannot accept an agreement rejected by the people themselves. However, those representatives are allowed to bravely step forward with ideas that might not be appealing to the whole people, but which could be accepted in the end through a referendum,“ he argued. Tadić refused to give any actual suggestions, explaining that it would not be wise at the moment. “There are models that have already been implemented, as well as the possibility of the two sides coming up with a new type of solution,“ he added. "It is not wise or purposeful right now to give actual proposals for a political solution, because we would not reach that solution then, and I think that it is wiser now to address technical issues and avoid politics," he noted, claiming he was prepared to take responsibility and offer possible solutions, but only once the time was right. The president stressed that he could not give up on protecting the interest of the Serbs in Kosovo who did not wish to be integrated into the unilaterally declared state of Kosovo. “I cannot search for a practical solution without taking into account the existing reality. Because if I denied the opinion of Serbs in Kosovo I would be acting like Milošević who, before the conflict broke out, denied the opinion of Albanians, who didn't want to live under Serbia's sovereign roof even before the conflict,“ he pointed out. .............................. more see: http://www.b92.net/eng/news/politics-article.php?yyyy=2011&mm=03&dd=18&nav_id=73301