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Sending EU mission to Kosovo-Metohija will breach Serbia’s sovereignty, territorial integrity

Belgrade, 9 January 2008

Serbian Minister of Interior Dragan Jocic stated today that the best thing would be if the EU decides against sending its mission to Kosovo-Metohija and thus enables a normal signing and implementation of the Stabilisation and Association Agreement (SAA).

In a statement to the Beta news agency, Jocic stressed that Serbia is a free and sovereign country and added that if the EU wants to sign the SAA with Serbia on January 28, it will have to respect Serbia’s sovereignty and territorial wholeness.

If the EU decides to send its civil mission to Kosovo-Metohija, which will also include police forces, a puppet creation will emerge on Serbia’s territory. Serbia’s territorial integrity will thus be violated and the already initialled agreement directly breached and annulled, said the Minister.

He said that all state institutions are under the highest obligation to respect the Serbian Constitution which by the will of its people clearly determined that Serbia’s state borders are unalterable and the province of Kosovo-Metohija an inalienable part of its territory.

By illegally sending a mission to implement Ahtisaari’s rejected plan, the EU will commit a harsh violation of Resolution 1244 and the Serbian Constitution, thus harming Serbia’s sovereignty and territorial integrity, warned Jocic.