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Kosovo-Metohija remains integral and unalienable part of Serbia
Belgrade,
25 April 2008
Serbian Prime Minister Vojislav Kostunica said today that Serbia will not trade with its territory and that before and after these and every next elections, Kosovo-Metohija will remain an integral and unalienable part of Serbia.
Reacting to EU Enlargement Commissioner Olli Rehn’s statement for today’s edition of the Politika daily, Kostunica said that Rehn explained why he supports Serbia's signing of the Stabilisation and Association Agreement and that Serbia's duty would be to establish good-neighbourly relations with Kosovo.
Since the EU Commissioner has openly stated the EU position, we will have to be open too and most resolutely reject Rehn's request that Serbia should establish good-neighbourly relations with itself, i.e., with part of its own territory, said Kostunica.
The duty of establishing good-neighbourly relations literally means that Serbia should recognise the existence of a false Albanian state on its territory, he said and added that Rehn does not understand that this will never happen and that Serbia will never sign a document taking such a duty.
Kostunica also stressed that we have not yet witnessed the case of a country being requested to establish good neighbourly relations with a part of its territory.
Our response to Rehn is that Serbia will not trade with its territory and that before and after these and every next elections, Kosovo-Metohija will remain an integral and unalienable part of Serbia.
He warned that whoever wants to sign Rehn’s request for the breaking up of Serbia can do so only on his own behalf, and never on behalf of Serbia.
It is good that we have heard the EU’s position through Rehn, and it is also good that they hear our response so that they could perceive reality, Kostunica underlined.
Since the EU Commissioner has openly stated the EU position, we will have to be open too and most resolutely reject Rehn's request that Serbia should establish good-neighbourly relations with itself, i.e., with part of its own territory, said Kostunica.
The duty of establishing good-neighbourly relations literally means that Serbia should recognise the existence of a false Albanian state on its territory, he said and added that Rehn does not understand that this will never happen and that Serbia will never sign a document taking such a duty.
Kostunica also stressed that we have not yet witnessed the case of a country being requested to establish good neighbourly relations with a part of its territory.
Our response to Rehn is that Serbia will not trade with its territory and that before and after these and every next elections, Kosovo-Metohija will remain an integral and unalienable part of Serbia.
He warned that whoever wants to sign Rehn’s request for the breaking up of Serbia can do so only on his own behalf, and never on behalf of Serbia.
It is good that we have heard the EU’s position through Rehn, and it is also good that they hear our response so that they could perceive reality, Kostunica underlined.
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