"EULEX only with Belgrade's agreement"

BELGRADE -- President Boris Tadić today in Belgrade met with Cyprus Foreign minister Marcos Kyprianou. Reports after the meeting said that the two officials reaffirmed their countries' common stand that the work of the EULEX mission in Kosovo had to be agreed on with Belgrade, "with full observation of territorial integrity and sovereignty of Serbia, and confirmed at the UN Security Council". "The European Union can have its mission in Kosovo-Metohija, which has gone through the UN Security Council procedure, but this mission cannot implement the Ahtisaari plan," the Serbian president said, and urged a dialogue with the United Nations on the reconfiguration of the international presence in Kosovo, the presidential press service said in a statement. Tadić told Kyprianou that Serbia's strategy was to request through the UN... [read full story]