Trajković pushes for accepting EULEX

Radmila Trajković says she expects Boris Tadić and official Belgrade to change their position on the EU mission in Kosovo.

Source: B92, Blic
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The Serb representative from the central parts of the province told Belgrade's Blic daily that "the authorities in Belgrade have clearly chosen a European future and I cannot see anything contentious in the EU to, via EULEX, take on the most responsibility for the stability of Kosovo".

She added that after the UN General Assembly in September, official Belgrade will change their position of rejecting the EU mission, and make a deal with Ollie Rehn and Javier Solana to accept EULEX, and have Serbia progress faster toward the EU.

"The UN Security Council is no longer a place where decisions are made, but a place where they are blocked, and therefore we need to turn toward the EU. The reality is that we have military presence of NATO in Kosovo, therefore primarily the EU and U.S., and the countries that have military presence always dictate a political solution," Trajković was quoted as saying by the newspaper.

"In such a situation, we must not stick to the Russian position, whose services are only leading us toward deterioration of relations with the European countries and America. Instead, we must turn to our natural partners, and that's the EU," she said.

Official Belgrade earlier rejected the deployment of the EU mission without a UN SC approval as illegal, and said it aimed to implement the Ahtisaari plan of Kosovo's supervised independence.

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