NEW YORK — Martti Ahtisaari will present his Kosovo status plan to the UN Security Council in New York today.
The UN special Kosovo envoy will today attend the first Security Council session dedicated to the province to introduce his status plan envisaging supervised independence. Prime minister Vojislav Koštunica will also be present.
Koštunica is set to repeat that the plan was unacceptable for Serbia, his advisor Slobodan Samardžić told the state television. Samardžić also said the prime minister would propose “ways to solve the deadlocked talks” at the meeting today.
Koštunica will relay Belgrade’s message to UN secretary-general Ban Ki-moon first. According to Samardžić, Koštunica will emphasize there were Security Council members who did not support Ahtisaari’s plan, but instead favored continued talks for reaching a compromise solution for Kosovo.
Protest over Sejdiu
Serbian ambassador to the UN Pavle Jevremović has sent a protest letter to the Security Council over Kosovo president Fatmir Sejdiu’s announced participation in today’s session. Jevremović stressed Resolution 1244 stipulated that only UNMIK could represent the province.
Slobodan Samardžić said it would be unacceptable for Sejdiu to address the Council.
“That would be in breach of Resolution 1244 and Kosovo’s Constitutional framework. According to those documents, Kosovo can only be represented by the UN special representative in international communication, not by members of the interim institutions. They can attend, but not represent Kosovo,” he said.
“We will insist on this, the letter’s been sent, I expect a bad precedent of that kind will not take place and that Ahtisaari, and then Koštunica as well as Council member states’ ambassadors will address the meeting,” Samardžić said.
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