Final solution for Kosovo "to be discussed in 2013”

Source: Tanjug

BRUSSELS -- Serbia’s Prime Minister Ivica Dačić has stated that political topics would be opened in the Belgrade-Priština talks in 2013.

Ivica Dačić (Tanjug, file)

He added that Serbia was ready to discuss a final solution for Kosovo.
“These talks contribute to visible progress in the Belgrade-Priština relations and we will open some political topics next year,” Dačić announced at a forum dubbed "Balkans progress: Battling to overcome the impact of the crisis," which is organized by Friends of Europe and the Konrad Adenauer Foundation in Brussels.

He said that relations in the region had deteriorated, especially between Serbia and Croatia after the acquittal of Croat Generals Ante Gotovina and Mladen Markač and former commander of the so-called Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA) Ramush Haradinaj.

“The Tribunal’s decision does not contribute to survival of a principle that all criminals should be punished,” Dačić said and stressed that Serbs had been sentenced to more years in prison by the Hague Tribunal than Germans in the Nuremberg trials.

“How can we have reconciliation if we are not ready to convict criminals,” the Serbian PM asked.

He said that better relations should be built regardless of the Hague Tribunal’s decisions.

“Let us not make ice for ourselves and build our identity on the humiliation of other identities,” Dačić underscored.

“The Western Balkan countries have different interests and views of the past, maybe of the future as well, but we should find what is common for everybody,” he said.

According to him, interference of great powers has also contributed to disagreements in the Balkans.

“Which great power has the biggest influence in the Balkans? None, it seems, and everybody has a little bit because all powers have ‘their own people’ in the Balkans. All of us are doing things or others instead of doing things for ourselves,” Dačić pointed out.

The Serbian PM will today take part in a ministerial conference dubbed “Global Alliance against Child Sexual Abuse Online”.

He will also meet with European Parliament (EP) Rapporteur for Serbia Jelko Kacin.

Dačić met with EU High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy Catherine Ashton and Kosovo PM Hashim Thaci on Tuesday night in Brussels.

They agreed that four administrative crossings with Kosovo would be opened by the end of the year and that a trial implementation of the integrated crossings management would begin on December 10.

Dačić stressed after the meeting that the crossings would not be border crossings and that Kosovo Serbs would not need Kosovo documents and license plates.

Northern Kosovo Serbs have been protesting against the construction of facilities at the administrative line and they see it as an attempt to set up a border between Kosovo and central Serbia.