Kosova: Early Serbian Elections Could Delay Status Proposal
A proposal on the future status of Kosovo could be delayed if
Albert Rohan, attending a conference in Lower Austria that was closed to the media, said if
Serbian parliamentary elections could be held as early as December but no date has been set.
The government also plans to hold a referendum on Oct. 28-29 on a new constitution that declares the independence-seeking
Chief U.N. envoy Martti Ahtisaari is expected to present his proposal to the U.N. Security Council in the coming months. Earlier this week, he said he sees no solution in the talks on the status of Kosovo because the two sides are too divided.
Rohan echoed those comments Friday saying in remarks quoted by APA that "further negotiations don't make sense unless we get signals from one side that it is ready to make concessions."
In an interview with The Associated Press in
Kosovo, formally a Serbian province, has been run by the United Nations and NATO since a 1999 war. The
But the negotiations, which started early this year, have produced no result, with both sides entrenched in their positions — the ethnic Albanians demanding independence from