Foreign Minister Vuk Jeremic travelled to London on Wednesday to meet Britain’s Foreign Secretary, David Miliband, and other officials.
On Thursday Jeremic will fly to the United States to meet the United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon and ambassadors of the countries in the UN Security Council, Serbia’s foreign ministry said in a statement.
In his address to parliament on Tuesday Jeremic warned that Serbia had prepared “a set of measures” as a response to Kosovo’s anticipated unilateral declaration of independence and its subsequent recognition by individual states.
Jeremic said that the so-called Action Plan, drafted by his ministry for consideration by the government, envisaged options ranging from “doing nothing” to “recalling ambassadors for consultations” and finally to “severing diplomatic ties with countries that would move to unilaterally recognize the province.”
“We hope that there will be no need for the adoption or the implementation of the measures,” as Belgrade still “wants a compromise solution in the Kosovo status dispute,” Jeremic told lawmakers.
Ethnic Albanian-dominated Kosovo, a UN protectorate since the end of the 1998-99 war, wants full independence from Serbia which is offering it only a broad autonomy.
A number of Kosovo Albanian leaders have said they are ready to unilaterally declare their homeland’s independence shortly after the Troika of international mediators from the United States, the European Union and Russia submits its report about the deadlocked Kosovo talks to the UN Secretary-General on December 10.
Meanwhile, Pavle Jevremovic, Serbia’s ambassador to the UN, has announced that Prime Minister Vojislav Kostunica will address the Security Council on December 19, at a session convened to review the Troika’s report on Kosovo talks.
He also urged Italy, which chairs the Security Council in December, to allow Kosovo Albanian leaders to attend the session, but not to let them deliver their speeches, said a statement from Serbia’s foreign ministry.
One of the options Belgrade has publicly ruled out is the use of force.
Dragan Sutanovac, Serbia’s Defence Minister, has repeatedly said that although the military are ready for all contingencies, they will not intervene in Kosovo.
Another top official, Deputy Prime Minister Bozidar Djelic, has said that “despite future developments, Serbia will not resort to violence [in Kosovo].”
Speaking at an international conference in Brussels on Tuesday, Delic said that “it would be pathetic to send a message to the world that the use of force is the only way of achieving goals.”
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