PRISTINA, March 6 (Hina) - The proposal by UN special envoy Martti Ahtisaari concerning Kosovo's future status does not give any side everything they want but none of the sides should be left empty handed either, U.S. Assistant
Secretary for the Bureau of European and Eurasian Affairs Daniel Fried said on Tuesday after his one-day visit to Serbia.
PRISTINA, March 6 (Hina) - The proposal by UN special envoy Martti
Ahtisaari concerning Kosovo's future status does not give any side everything
they want but none of the sides should be left empty handed either, U.S.
Assistant Secretary for the Bureau of European and Eurasian Affairs Daniel
Fried said on Tuesday after his one-day visit to Serbia. After talks
with representatives of the predominantly Serb municipalities of Zvecan,
Leposavic and Zubni Potok, Fried said that the position of the US government
was that Serbs should have a future in Kosovo and that they should be able to
live peacefully in their homes and towns.
Fried said that the 10 March talks in Vienna would be very important
and that the Serb negotiating team should arrive with practical and serious
proposals.
Ahtisaari's proposal is not final and it is not up to me to talk about
it, he said. The best future for Serbia and Kosovo is that they jointly meet in
a united Europe as friends and that these dark times be only a memory, the US
diplomat said.