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Idea of forming confederation with Kosovo-Metohija unacceptable for Serbia
Belgrade,
2 August 2007
Serbian Minister for Kosovo-Metohija Slobodan Samardzic said today that during the recent period Serbia received semi-official and not very public offers from Europe and official circles in Brussels of forming a federation with Kosovo-Metohija, which is completely unacceptable for Serbia.
In an interview for the daily Vecernje Novosti, Samardzic stressed that Serbian Prime Minister Vojislav Kostunica has clearly presented the position of all Serbian state organs on the matter by rejecting the idea of forming a confederation of Serbia and Kosovo-Metohija.
He stressed that a confederation of Serbia and Kosovo-Metohija, according to definition, is impossible since a state and its province cannot form a confederation, and added that a confederation can be formed only by two or more states, while according to international and internal law Kosovo-Metohija is an autonomous province within Serbia.
According to Samardzic, a country and its province may best regulate relations through a high degree of territorial autonomy, and Serbia is clearly offering its province, Kosovo-Metohija, maximum autonomy in relation to the state, under supervision and guarantees by the UN.
Samardzic said that negotiations should be led on the form, degree and jurisdictions of that territorial autonomy and stressed that Kosovo-Metohija, since it does not have the status of a state, cannot make an internal confederation with the state, so that later it may develop into an independent state through a referendum.
Kosovo-Metohija cannot get the status of being a state, and cannot be independent of Serbia now, later or ever. Our country offers full self governance and maximum autonomy but all elements of sovereignty and statehood belong to Serbia, concluded the Minister for Kosovo-Metohija.
He stressed that a confederation of Serbia and Kosovo-Metohija, according to definition, is impossible since a state and its province cannot form a confederation, and added that a confederation can be formed only by two or more states, while according to international and internal law Kosovo-Metohija is an autonomous province within Serbia.
According to Samardzic, a country and its province may best regulate relations through a high degree of territorial autonomy, and Serbia is clearly offering its province, Kosovo-Metohija, maximum autonomy in relation to the state, under supervision and guarantees by the UN.
Samardzic said that negotiations should be led on the form, degree and jurisdictions of that territorial autonomy and stressed that Kosovo-Metohija, since it does not have the status of a state, cannot make an internal confederation with the state, so that later it may develop into an independent state through a referendum.
Kosovo-Metohija cannot get the status of being a state, and cannot be independent of Serbia now, later or ever. Our country offers full self governance and maximum autonomy but all elements of sovereignty and statehood belong to Serbia, concluded the Minister for Kosovo-Metohija.
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