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G8 failed to agree on Kosovo problem
09.06.2007 13:55 GMT+04:00

/PanARMENIAN.Net/ Despite all expectation, the Kosovo problem was not
resolved at the G8 summit in Heiligendamm. French President Nicolas
Sarkozy offered to postpone its solution for 6 months. `It will be
very difficult to propose a draft resolution in the UN Security
Council and to oppose the Russian veto… It would be better if we do
not conflict on that issue right now,’ Sarkozy said at the press
conference. In his opinion, Russia must recognize the perspective of
Kosovo’s independence.

`Then, after the expiration of the 6-month period either Belgrade and
Prishtina will agree on the best status of Kosovo, or the Ahtisaari
plan will come into force,’ the French President underscored.

In her part German Chancellor Angela Merkel, whose country holds the
chairmanship of the G8 club in 2007, underlined that during the
session participants of discussion proposed various approaches to the
Kosovo problem solution. However, world leaders simply could not come
to a variant acceptable for all parties, DPA information agency
reports.

The United States forces the realization of a plan on the settlement
of the Kosovo problem proposed by UN Special Representative in that
Serbian province Marti Ahtisaari. Finnish former president’s plan
offers to grant Kosovo, which currently is under the UN
administration, a `controllable independence’. Russia, who has a veto
power in the UN Security Council, opposes perspectives of granting
Kosovo sovereignty, at the same time supporting official Belgrade in
this issue.

On Friday June 8 head of Kosovo’s provincial government Agim Çeku
called on the UN Security Council to settle the problem of granting
the province the status of an independent state as soon as possible.
Reuters cites Çeku’s words, who said, `If this does not happen, the
world community must grant the south Serbian province a right to
determine its future independently,’ Deutsche Welle reports.