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Kostunica rejects claims that SAA is status-neutral
Belgrade,
30 April 2008
Serbian Prime Minister Vojislav Kostunica today rejected the claims by EU High Representative for Foreign Policy and Safety Javier Solana that the Stabilisation and Association Agreement (SAA) with the EU is status-neutral to Kosovo-Metohija.
Vojislav Kostunica
The Serbian government’s official web site gives the Prime Minister’s statement in full.
“On the basis of Javier Solana’s statement, one could conclude that he is pleading for Serbia and for Kosovo to remain within Serbia and that I am against it. And Solana’s main argument is that the SAA is status-neutral to Kosovo-Metohija.
If Solana’s assertion is true, then what was he doing as an EU official in Pristina when he congratulated people, for whom international wanted notices have been issued, on their independence? Does the EU’s decision to deploy its EULEX mission in order to implement Ahtisaari’s plan represent a breach of the SAA or has the SAA thus remained status-neutral? Was the SAA breached when 18 EU countries recognised Kosovo and has this agreement remained status-neutral after that? And when these states which recognised Kosovo ratify the SAA through their parliaments, will they thus annul their decision to recognise Kosovo and return the SAA to a neutral status, or will they ratify an agreement which refers to a divided Serbia without Kosovo?
If we look at it without deception, we will see that the true answer to these questions is well-known. Perhaps Solana does not know it, but every Serbian citizen knows it. Just as every Serb knows that Solana’s decision to bomb Serbia was not neutral but utterly senseless. Just as every Serb knows that the decision to set up Bondsteel base is not status-neutral, but that it meant the construction of the capital city of the first NATO state which Solana began creating by bombing Serbia. And we all know very well that Ahtisaari’s plan, implemented by the EULEX mission, is also not status-neutral but that it affirms that NATO is the supreme authority in Kosovo.
Solana should know that a number of still visible ruined facilities throughout Serbia are his doing. If not for anything else, then least of all because it is not appropriate to compare who loves Serbia more, me or him”, reads the Prime Minister’s statement.
“On the basis of Javier Solana’s statement, one could conclude that he is pleading for Serbia and for Kosovo to remain within Serbia and that I am against it. And Solana’s main argument is that the SAA is status-neutral to Kosovo-Metohija.
If Solana’s assertion is true, then what was he doing as an EU official in Pristina when he congratulated people, for whom international wanted notices have been issued, on their independence? Does the EU’s decision to deploy its EULEX mission in order to implement Ahtisaari’s plan represent a breach of the SAA or has the SAA thus remained status-neutral? Was the SAA breached when 18 EU countries recognised Kosovo and has this agreement remained status-neutral after that? And when these states which recognised Kosovo ratify the SAA through their parliaments, will they thus annul their decision to recognise Kosovo and return the SAA to a neutral status, or will they ratify an agreement which refers to a divided Serbia without Kosovo?
If we look at it without deception, we will see that the true answer to these questions is well-known. Perhaps Solana does not know it, but every Serbian citizen knows it. Just as every Serb knows that Solana’s decision to bomb Serbia was not neutral but utterly senseless. Just as every Serb knows that the decision to set up Bondsteel base is not status-neutral, but that it meant the construction of the capital city of the first NATO state which Solana began creating by bombing Serbia. And we all know very well that Ahtisaari’s plan, implemented by the EULEX mission, is also not status-neutral but that it affirms that NATO is the supreme authority in Kosovo.
Solana should know that a number of still visible ruined facilities throughout Serbia are his doing. If not for anything else, then least of all because it is not appropriate to compare who loves Serbia more, me or him”, reads the Prime Minister’s statement.
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