of the dialogue with the Albanian side in Prishtina is yet another "Serb regime publicity stunt" over what is

an urgent need for a serious negotiating process between Prishtina and Belgrade, Mr. Xhemail Mustafa,

President Ibrahim Rugova's press advisor, said Monday in a statement to the Kosova Information Center

(KIC).

"The Kosova leadership stands for meaningful and well-prepared Albanian-Serbian negotiations under an

effective mediation by American Ambassador Christopher Hill and his European colleague, Wolfgang

Petritsch", Mustafa said, adding that any serious offer for negotiations between Prishtina and Belgrade

should take this into account, and the initiative should be put in place in "cooperation and with the help of

the mediators".

The Serbian President invited Hill and Petritsch as guests, Rugova's aide notes, "and not as mediators

commissioned by the U.S. Administration, the European Union and the Contact Group." This fact shows

that Belgrade wants "to exclude them and the institutions they represent" from the negotiating process on

the resolution of the Kosova issue, and that "it (Belgrade) cherishes illusions that Kosova can be treated

as an alleged internal matter of Serbia and its leadership", Xhemail Mustafa said.

The aide to the President of the Republic of Kosova said "all efforts on negotiations on Kosova which do

not take into account the current political and military realities in Kosova and ignore the fact that the people

of Kosova have opted for independence in referendum are doomed to failure".

The Belgrade regime has found itself under stepped up international pressure to engage in serious

negotiations with Prishtina, President Rugova's aide said, adding that Sunday's offer seems to have been

designed to ease this pressure. "Belgrade has judged it wrong this time around, too, because the Albanian

side has been all along keen on engaging in a substantial negotiating process, and this is a well-known fact

to the international community", Mr. Xhemail Mustafa concluded.