A meeting of Serbia's negotiating team, held on Thursday evening, was presided by Serbia's outgoing Prime Minister Vojislav Kostunica, who is also a co-chairman of the negotiating team, together with Serbia's President Boris Tadic. It was decided that Serbia's delegation at the meeting in Vienna on Saturday would be led by President Tadic, PM Kostunica and Foreign Minister Vuk Draskovic.
Blic daily wrote on Friday that the new version of Ahtisaari's proposal had not changed any of the regulations that give Kosovo elements of statehood and it did not include Belgrade's proposal on forming a Serb entity that would be financed directly from Belgrade. Under the amended proposal, Serb municipalities can cooperate with Belgrade through financial and technical assistance.
The amended proposal was dismissed by most of the parliamentary parties, whose representatives met with the negotiating team, with the exception of the president of Liberal and Democratic Party, Cedomir Jovanovic, who told Radio B92 that Serbia must have a policy towards Kosovo which would recognise reality and allow Kosovo citizens to assume the exercising of the rights which Belgrade lost back in 1999.