7 Aug 2008
Kosovo goverment refuses cooperation with Serbia
Kosovo’s Prime Minister Hashim Thaci said in an interview with Kosovo Daily Koha Ditore that he opposed any direct talks with Serbia over six points of mutual interest proposed by U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon in June.
In June, the Secretary General instructed Lamberto Zannier, head of the UN mission in Kosovo, UNMIK, to start discussions with Belgrade on “several issues of mutual interest”. These issues include Serbian involvement in the Kosovo judiciary, police, customs, transportation and infrastructure, boundaries and Serbian patrimony. The idea was for the talks to help the world body wrap up its interim administration in Kosovo.
“The dialogue over the six points proposed by UN Secretary General, Ban Ki-Moon, is going to be difficult, delicate and complex,” Zannier predicted, a few days ago.