BELGRADE-PRISTINA TALKS YET - SERBIAN PM BELGRADE, Aug 15 (Hina) - Serbian Prime Minister Zoran Zivkovic said on Friday that in the wake of the recent murder of two young Serbs and the wounding of another four, it was still not time
for talks between Belgrade and Pristina.
BELGRADE, Aug 15 (Hina) - Serbian Prime Minister Zoran Zivkovic
said on Friday that in the wake of the recent murder of two young
Serbs and the wounding of another four, it was still not time for
talks between Belgrade and Pristina. #L#
Zivkovic spoke in Gorazdevac near Pec in Kosovo where he and Nebojsa
Covic, Serbia's deputy PM and chief of a coordinating centre for
Kosovo, attended the funeral of the teenage boys killed in
Gorazdevac on Wednesday.
Zivkovic thanked Harri Holker, the new chief of the U.N. Mission to
Kosovo, for having enabled him and Covic to travel to Kosovo for the
funeral, which was the first visit to Kosovo by Serbia's top
officials since NATO's air raids on Yugoslavia in 1999.
Deputy PM Covic said Zivkovic would attend on Monday a United
Nations Security Council session on the Kosovo situation, when he
should convey the stance of Serbia's government and Serbia and
Montenegro bodies that international troops had done very little in
Kosovo to date of what was envisaged by Resolution 1244.
PM Zivkovic said the realisation of the above U.N. Resolution would
make Kosovo peaceful, "a territory in which everyone will live as
appropriate for 21st century Europe, regardless of nationality, of
origin, of what happened in the recent past".
Earlier today in Belgrade, Zivkovic said he informed Holker of the
"sad data" indicating that 1,136 people were abducted in Kosovo in
the past four years, of whom 167 were killed, while the fate of 861
is unknown.
In said period 1,167 persons were killed in "terrorist acts", of
whom 989 were Serbs and Montenegrins, while 1,303 were wounded,
Zivkovic said, adding that U.N. Mission bodies had filed only 16
charges in connection with said acts.
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