Belgrade, 17/01/2000 (Agence Europe) - A three-way meeting between the Serb opposition, the EU and the United States will be held on 19 January in Budva, Montenegro, states the Beta Agency, taken over by AFP in Belgrade. According to Beta, Zarko Korac, leader of the Social Democrat Union, said discussion would not be on political issues but would focus on humanitarian matters, and that the EU will be represented by the Portuguese Presidency, and future French Presidency of the European Commission.
The trilateral commission had been set in place on 17 December 1999 during a meeting in Berlin between a delegation of the EU, US Secretary of State Madeleine Albright and representatives of the Serb opposition and government of Montenegro.