Therefore, the Serbian negotiating team proposes decentralisation and the establishment of a Serb entity in Kosovo.
According to the platform, whose excerpts were published in the Serbian press on Tuesday, Belgrade proposes the establishment of Serb municipalities around the northern town of Kosovska Mitrovica, in the central part of Kosovo, in the valley of the River Morava and in the western part of the province called Metohija.
The current and the newly-established Serb-populated municipalities would not be an undivided whole in territorial terms, but they should be connected through functions which would serve as an institutionalised framework for a normal life and the safe existence of the Serb province, the platform reads.
Negotiators from Belgrade also propose the protection of the most important shrines of the Serb Orthodox Church, including the Pec monastery and the other four important monasteries with 'safe zones' encircling the religious sites.
Serbs in Kosovo must enjoy all individual rights and freedoms which European Union member-states as well as Serbia and the state union of Serbia-Montenegro offer to their citizens, according to the platform.
The document also envisages a cultural autonomy as well as autonomy in public health, finance and the economy for Kosovo Serbs who should also have their police and the judicial system.
Later in the day, Kosovo Serbs expressed dissatisfaction with the platform, saying that the document did not contain a sufficient number of safeguards for the protection of their rights and interests.
Milan Ivanovic was quoted by the local Serb media as saying that they wanted to remain within Serbia's legal, security and public health systems.
Negotiations on Kosovo's final status will start in Vienna later this month.