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Daily Media Monitoring Summary: Saturday 8 December, 2001 **RUGOVA DEMANDS THREE LEADING POSTS FOR LDK, OFFERS FIVE
MINISTRIES FOR PDK AND AAK (1)** COVIC RECOMMENDS KOSOVO SERBS NOT TO
ENTER KOSOVO INSTITUTIONS WITHOUT AGREEING FIRST WITH BELGRADE (2) ALBIN
KURTI, FORMER STUDENT LEADER RELEASED FROM PRISON (3)**YUGOSLAVIA DECLARES
18,000 PASSPORTS ISSUED IN KOSOVO INVALID
(4)** In its report titled "The meeting of three leaders ends without agreement and smiles," Koha Ditore said that all three leaders said "yes" to co-governance and that they understood that they must sit together and move toward a new political process called co-governance. However, the posts of the parties in the new government were not defined yet. On the other hand, quoting some sources, Zëri reports that Rugova had asked for the LDK to keep the three leading posts in the government. From an overall of seven ministries, Rugova offered four ministries to the PDK, and one ministry to the Alliance for the Future of Kosovo. Based on the same sources, Thaçi and Haradinaj didn't agree with Rugova's proposal, and asked first to allocate the three leading posts, and then open the debate on the ministries and other bodies. Zëri on page one carried a column by its editor-in-chief Blerim Shala, in which he wrote that there were two problems in the meeting between Rugova, Thaçi and Haradinaj. The first problem is linked to the fact that there are only two days left until the opening session of the Kosovo Assembly, and the second is related to the belief of each leader that the other person should make concessions first. The game should be played with open cards and there can be no successful bluff: everyone knows the cards of the other player. In fact, the main question is what needs to be achieved in the first session of the Kosovo Parliament? If there is a real goal to hold a solemn meeting, then there is no need to be hasty. If there are goals to start the genuine work of the assembly, then the three leaders, along with their expert groups should hold a 24-hour negotiations session in order to reach an agreement about the allocation of the powers. In this aspect, they should also have in mind that they are not in Rambouillet and that the role of western diplomats can hardly go beyond the "services of good will". There is also the third possibility: we could witness the session of
the Kosovo Parliament without an agreement, and with the idea that the
process of posts allocation would be launched that day. In that case, it
is not difficult to imagine what would happen in the relations between the
leaders of the three Kosovar main political parties. Commenting on the pressures of the international community on Kosovo Serbs to join the Kosovo institutions, Covic emphasized that no Serb can hastily enter the above- mentioned bodies, and appealed to the Serbs to wait for the joint rules established by Belgrade and UNMIK.
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