ISCHINGER: UN SECURITY COUNCIL WON’T REACH AGREEMENT ON KOSOVO DECEMBER 19

PanARMENIAN.Net
19.12.2007 14:07 GMT+04:00

/PanARMENIAN.Net/ The UN Security Council will not reach agreement
on Kosovo December 19, said Wolfgang Ischinger, EU representative in
the Contact Group Troika for Kosovo.

"The situation hasn’t changed much since June or July, when Ahtisaari’s
plan was rejected. Taking into account Pristina’s intention to proclaim
independence in the near future, the EU was supposed to support the
decision and send correct signals to its neighbors, first of all to
Serbia," he said.

"The outlook of EU membership is one of the factors uniting Serbs
and Kosovars," he added.

Amb. Ischinger thinks Serbia will not use force against Kosovo even
if independence is proclaimed unilaterally. Belgrade will immediately
announce the decision illegal, according to him.

"Resolution of the Kosovo issue will become the index of Europeans’
legal capacity. It was clear that the troika attempts the impossible,"
the German diplomat said.

"As to Moscow’s position, it just wants to prevent NATO’s enlargement,"
he said, Deutsche Welle reports.