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SIPDIS 
 
E.O. 12958: DECL: 10/25/2017 
TAGS: PGOV PREL SR YI KO IT
SUBJECT: D'ALEMA WILL PRESS BELGRADE NOT TO BLOCK SERB 
PARTICIPATION IN KOSOVO ELECTIONS 
 
REF: STATE 146242 
 
Classified By: Classified by Jonathan R. Cohen, Acting Political Minist 
er Counselor, for reasons 1.4 (b) and (d). 
 
¶1. (C) On October 22, Poloff spoke with Raimondo De Cardona, 
Director of the MFA Balkans Office, to deliver reftel points. 
 De Cardona noted that FM D'Alema would travel to Belgrade on 
October 23 to press Serbian leaders to use the period before 
December 10 constructively to either find a mutually 
acceptable solution for Kosovo's status or narrow points of 
differences between the two sides.  He will also encourage 
Serbian leaders to move closer to the EU, but remind them of 
their need to fulfill international obligations to the ICTY. 
 D'Alema will not speculate publicly or privately on what the 
international community will do after December 10. 
 
¶2. (C) De Cardona agreed with reftel points and said D'Alema 
planned to encourage Serb participation in Kosovo's November 
17 elections.  D'Alema would also caution Belgrade's 
leadership against holding alternate or parallel elections. 
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