"Serbia remains committed to the negotiating process. In talks on (Kosovo's) future status, Serbia does not want to and will not use force. Serbia is a European country and wants Kosovo's status to be defined in a European fashion," Tadic said at a joint news conference after a Southeast European summit focusing on energy issues.
Speaking of Kosovo's role in the regional energy situation, Tadic said that great investments had been made in Kosovo and that Serbia would have to raise the issue of its investments in the province, as well as that it considered Kosovo, with large brown coal deposits, part of Serbia.
Asked why there were no representatives of Kosovo at the summit, Macedonian President Branko Crvenkovski said that Kosovo representatives had not attended last year's summits in Durres, Albania, and Karadjordjevo, Serbia, either because summits were attended by heads of sovereign states.
Crvenkovski said that UN special envoy Martti Ahtisaari's plan for Kosovo was a good plan for the demarcation of the border between Macedonia and Kosovo, and that Macedonia wanted to have good relations both with Pristina and Belgrade.
Croatian President Stjepan Mesic repeated Croatia's position about the need to reach an agreed solution for Kosovo. Croatia supports Ahtisaari's plan, and the status quo must not continue, he said.
In his plan recently presented to the UN Security Council, Ahtisaari proposed independence for Kosovo under international supervision for the initial period.
Montenegrin President Filip Vujanovic mentioned the example of his country, saying that not all possibilities of dialogue had been exhausted.
The chairman of the Bosnian three-man presidency, Nebojsa Radmanovic, said that the Kosovo issue should be "dealt with carefully because it concerns all of us". Prompted by another question, he added that Bosnia-Herzegovina did not fear the domino effect.
Albanian President Alfred Moisiu said that prolonging the final solution of the Kosovo issue did not benefit anyone.