Belgrade "for compromise" on Kosovo

B92, Belgrade, September 23, 2005 10:34

NEW YORK, BELGRADE -- Friday - Belgrade is for compromise on the issue of the final status of Kosovo, Vuk Draskovic said today.

The federal foreign minister told the UN General Assembly that Belgrade is absolutely for compromise on the province's future status and that the Serbian authorities have taken the maximum step forward in that direction, unlike the Kosovo Albanians who continue to demand only independence, and have not changed their position since before 1999.

"This compromise means that there is no unlimited autonomy or independence for Kosovo because it's not possible for one side to get everything and the other to lose everything. Serbia-Montenegro is demanding a European degree of protection of the rights of national minorities in Kosovo, protection of the churches and monasteries and European status of the existing state borders with Macedonia and Albania.

"Nothing more, but nothing less, neither according to the UN Charter, nor according to the Security Council's Resolution 1244," said Draskovic.