Sejdiu gave the statement after a meeting between Kosovo negotiators and the chief UN negotiator for Kosovo's status, Martti Ahtisaari, who arrived in Kosovo on Monday for a visit to last several days.
The Kosovo team sticks by its position to establish five new municipalities and expand the existing municipality of Novo Brdo, but it recently also decided that Gracanica municipality should be expanded with two cadastral units belonging to Lipljan municipality.
Explaining their position on the number of predominantly Serb municipalities, the authorities in Pristina said that the existing and future municipalities, a total of ten, would enable 82 percent of ethnic Serbs to live in municipalities they will govern on their own, and the remaining 18 percent to live in multiethnic municipalities. Such a structure of municipalities will make it possible for Serbs to have authority on 24 percent of Kosovo's territory, which the Kosovo negotiating team believes is much more than they are entitled to according to their share in Kosovo's population.
Ahtisaari today would not comment on his talks with Kosovo representatives. Earlier in the morning, the Finnish diplomat met Kosovo President Sejdiu and PM Agim Qeku. He is also scheduled to meet the leader of the Serb List for Kosovo, Oliver Ivanovic, later in the day.
Upon his arrival in Pristina on Tuesday, Ahtisaari met the newly appointed UN Civil Administrator, Joachim Ruecker, who will officially take up office on September 1, the chief deputy to the head of the UN Mission in Kosovo, Steven Schook, and members of his team of experts who arrived in Kosovo on Monday.
As Ahtisaari was holding talks with Kosovo officials, several dozen members of a movement called the Self-Determination rallied in front of the Kosovo parliament headquarters protesting against negotiations on Kosovo's status. The rally was held under the slogan "Decentralisation means division, Kosovo's division means war".
Local police used force to disperse the protesters.
The next round of talks on Kosovo's status between Pristina and Belgrade will be held in Vienna in early September.