Moisiu disagrees with Tadic for Kosova

KARADJORDJEVO, Serbia -President Alfred Moisiu took part Monday in a summit of the heads of seven southeastern European states who at the end signed an agreement to work together to fight terrorism and organized crime in the region and beyond. The presidents of Serbia, Croatia, Macedonia, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Montenegro, Romania and Albania pledged a “concerted action to fight organized crime and terrorism” that threaten to undermine security and democracies in the ex-Communist countries.
During the meeting Moisiu took a diametrically opposed stand to Serbia’s counterpart Boris Tadic on Kosova’s future status. Moisiu said that fast solution of Kosova’s final status would “affect the strengthening of security, regional stability and, consequently, would assist that the whole region walks with the same step and development platform,” according to his office. “I have talked to many Serbian representatives and I told them that we should forget the past, be realistic and look to the future,” said Moisiu. “Albania doesn’t reject a compromise, but it is the only a way of solving the status question, not the solution itself,” he added.
Tadic retorted that Kosova has been a part of Serbia since 1912 and that it is dangerous to change state borders. “Destabilizing any state in the region would mean destabilizing the entire region,” Tadic said.