A senior Serbian official accused the United States on Wednesday of being "destructive and obstructive" in the talks over the future status of Kosovo, news from Belgrade reported.
"Regardless of the fact that we agreed to restrain from making any prejudiced statements over the Kosovo issue, U.S. officials persistently obstruct the talks by proposing independence for Kosovo," Slobodan Samardzic, Serbia's minister for Kosovo said.
He said that the recent statements by Rosemary DiCarlo, Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for European and Eurasian affairs, and Zalmay Khalilzad, U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, favored independence for Kosovo, Serbia's news agency Tanjug said.
"In such a context, we wonder what is the use of keeping on talking when the outcome is already known?" Samardzic asked. "I think their activities are destructive and obstructive in the process to get a compromise solution."
Kosovo is Serbia's southern breakaway province which has been run by the United Nations since mid-1999, when NATO troops drove out Serbian forces fighting ethnic Albanian separatists.
Serbia has insisted that Kosovo in an integral part of its territory while the ethnic Albanians, who account for 90 percent of the province's 2 million people, have said they will accept nothing but complete independence.
In London on Tuesday, Kosovo Prime Minister Agim Ceku said that Kosovo would proclaim independence immediately after Dec. 10, when the Kosovo troika mediators are due to submit their report on the negotiations to the United Nations.
Source: Xinhua
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