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Wednesday, April 25, 2007

SERBIA SAYS THAT KOSOVO INDEPENDENCE PLAN HAS FAILED,BUT WASHINGTON GOES AHEAD

The major Western powers, including the European Union and NATO, agree with Ahtisaari that independence is the only viable option and there is no point in further talks. Washington, Paris and Vienna have all said so clearly in the past month.

'We are leaving Ahtisaari's abortive proposal behind us,' Tanjug quoted Kostunica as saying.

He added the Russian initiative to send a Security Council mission would begin a re-assessment of Kosovo's progress on meeting democratic standards, and thus 'becomes a realistic basis for a new negotiation process'.

The mission will visit the territory on April 25-28. There is no certainty that it will end up opposing the Ahtisaari plan, as Kostunica asserted. Western diplomats say they are confident a majority of the 15 Security Council members will back the plan, already endorsed by U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-moon.

Serbia says the Kosovo Albanians have failed to meet benchmarks set by the United Nations. But in any case it rules out independence, offering substantial autonomy under Serbian sovereignty.

Tanjug quoted Kostunica as saying Serbia was shifting the focus to 'the issue of the massive and urgent return of 200,000 expelled Serbs' who fled Kosovo to escape revenge attacks after June 1999, when NATO bombing drove Serb forces out.

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