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Rupel’s statement unacceptable
Belgrade,
28 May 2008
Serbian Prime Minister Vojislav Kostunica said today that the statement by President of the EU Council Dimitrij Rupel that Serbia should establish good neighbourly relations with Kosovo and that that is a precondition for its approximation to the EU is absolutely unacceptable.
Vojislav Kostunica
Kostunica told the Tanjug news agency that no country has ever been requested to establish good neighbourly relations with part of its own territory and that Serbia can give only one answer, and that is that according to international law and the Serbian Constitution, Kosovo is a province within Serbia.
It is also unacceptable that Rupel rejects all attempts to resume talks on Kosovo’s status, since according to him Kosovo is definitely independent, the Serbian Prime Minister said.
He recalled that a vast majority of countries in the world do not recognise Kosovo’s unilateral independence, on the contrary, they recognise Serbia in its legitimate, internationally recognised borders, with Kosovo as part of it.
Rupel may disapprove of that reality, but he surely cannot change it, Kostunica underlined.
It is also unacceptable that Rupel rejects all attempts to resume talks on Kosovo’s status, since according to him Kosovo is definitely independent, the Serbian Prime Minister said.
He recalled that a vast majority of countries in the world do not recognise Kosovo’s unilateral independence, on the contrary, they recognise Serbia in its legitimate, internationally recognised borders, with Kosovo as part of it.
Rupel may disapprove of that reality, but he surely cannot change it, Kostunica underlined.
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