As time is reducing before the UN deadline for a solution, Troika members will make concrete proposition for the future of Kosova based on previous models of autonomy despite doubts of success.
The troika supervising talks on Kosovo will make concrete proposals next week [21-26 November 2007] on the breakaway Serbian province's future status, European Union foreign policy chief Javier Solana's spokeswoman said Monday.
The troika - the E.U., Russia and the U.S. - will move from a role "where it played intermediary" to a "more proactive attitude" with Serbian and Kosovo negotiators, said spokeswoman Cristina Gallach.
The three are expected "to put ideas on the table" at the next round of Kosovo talks in Brussels on Nov. 20[2007], once the results of the province's elections this Saturday are known.
Kosovo's ethnic Albanian leaders are demanding independence from Serbia, which insists it will not part with its southern province and has offered a Hong Kong-style autonomy arrangement instead.
Multiple rounds of talks have failed to budge either side and time is running out on the U.N.-imposed deadline of Dec. 10 [2007] for a negotiated solution.
One idea circulating among the troika, diplomats have said, is to use a variation of an agreement reached between the two Germanys in 1972, known as the "Grundlagen Vertrag" or Basic Treaty.
Under the pact, West Germany recognized the existence of the German Democratic Republic in everything but law.
E.U. envoy Wolfgang Ischinger "is looking for models on which to draw inspiration", one diplomat said, on condition of anonymity.
"He has found a certain inspiration in this very particular case of the two Germanys," the diplomat said.
Senior E.U. officials concede that the Kosovo talks have little chance of succeeding, and Kosovo's leaders have already threatened to declare independence after Dec. 10 [2007]. (UNPO, easybourse)
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