Serbia urged the United States on Saturday to abandon its insistence on enforcing a UN special envoy 's plan on Kosovo ahead of the new talks set to start later this month.
"It is not good for the United States to insist on the plan by Martti Ahtisaari, nor is it good for any military organization like NATO to have such a role under this plan," news reaching here from Belgrade quoted Serbian Prime Minister Vojislav Kostunica as saying.
Kostunica said Serbia is going to show its responsibility and make appropriate compromise in finding a solution to the Kosovo issue, which can be reached only if the United States gives up the Ahtisaari plan.
UN special envoy Martti Ahtisaari presented his recommendations for Kosovo in last March, which granted supervised independence to the southern Serbian breakaway province.
The plan was backed by the United States and many other western countries, but was vehemently opposed by Serbia and its strong ally Russia which holds veto power in the UN Security Council.
Serbia claims that Kosovo is an inalienable part of its territory while ethnic Albanians who make up 90 percent of the province's 2 million population are demanding independence for the province which has been run by the United Nations and NATO for eight years since 1999.
A new round of talks aimed at defining Kosovo's final status would begin in Vienna, Austria, later this month under the auspices of envoys from the European Union, the United States and Russia, the so-called troika.
Source: Xinhua
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