Further Attempts to get Serbia’s Consent on its Dismemberment Fail
Srdjan Djuric at a press briefing on behalf of Serbian government.
Serbia Rejects Ischinger’s Proposal to Consent to Voluntary Dismemberment
Serbian government rejects proposal of the EU representative in the mediating troika, German Wolfgang Ischinger, on the “neutral status” of Serbia's southern province, Serbian prime minister's media advisor Srdjan Djuric told Tanjug on Saturday.
"This proposal actually means that Serbia itself would create an independent Albanian state on its territory. The other important feature of Ischinger's proposal is that it is essentially the same as the Albanian platform on ‘good neighborly relations between the two independent states’," Djuric said.
He added that "Ischinger's proposal on the neutral status of Kosovo-Metohija is based on the example of the agreement between two independent German states of 1972."
"For more than obvious reasons, Serbia rejects this proposal in advance. We believe it is especially important that (Russian representative in the mediating troika) Alexander Botsan-Kharchenko clearly said that this was not the troika's proposal, Djuric said.
Ischinger said on Wednesday that the mediating troika would present to Belgrade and Pristina a new proposal for the so-called neutral status.