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Failure of Ahtisaari’s plan in state and national interest

Belgrade, 28 March 2007

Serbian Prime Minister Vojislav Kostunica said today that it is of great importance for the state and national interest of Serbia that the plan presented by UN Special Envoy Marti Ahtisaari for breaking up Serbia meets with failure.

Vojislav Kostunica

We are informed that the US, EU and the NATO have given support to Ahtisaari’s proposal that 15% of Serbia’s territory is seized. At the present moment we will refrain from comment on their explanation that the territory is being taken in a friendly move towards Serbia, Kostunica said in a statement to the news agency Beta.

The Serbian Prime Minister added that NATO called itself “Merciful Angel” when it bombarded Serbia, and today, when it is trying to seize a significant part of our territory, it is calling itself Serbia’s friend.

According to Kostunica, Serbia answers with yet more determination and strength that Kosovo-Metohija is an integral and unalienable part of Serbia, that it is so according to law, and it will remain so according to law.

Today the world is not the way it used to be in 1999 when Serbia was bombarded. The UN Security Council does have instruments to stop the use of force and legal aggression against Serbia. Ahtisaari’s plan will fail despite the loud support it has received, and this failure will lead to new actual negotiations on the future regulation of the province, said Kostunica.