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FoNet (Serbia)
August 19, 2007
"Forces could return immediately"
BELGRADE - Serbian forces could immediately return to
Kosovo to secure religious sites and clear minefields,
a government official says.
Dušan Prorokoviæ (DSS), a secretary with the Ministry
for Kosovo, said Sunday there was nothing wrong with
the request to allow the return of Serbian security
personnel to some parts of Kosovo, "for it is in line
with the UN resolution 1244".
According to him, “if KFOR is unable to fulfil its
mandate, protect non-Albanian residents in the
province and stop ethnic cleansing and violence, our
security forces should be entrusted with the task.”
He said that the talk about the possibility of
partioning Kosovo was an attempt to plant an idea that
was not Belgrade's and added that it “represents an
exit strategy for some of Albanian politicians who
realized their insistence on certain things produced
no results.”
“Even if we were to consider partition, we will be
introducing into negotiations a new category that
disrupts the international legal order and involves
alteration of a sovereign state’s borders.”
Prorokoviæ said that the partition of the province,
along with any sort of independence, would
additionally weaken the region and push the Balkans
into long-term instability, which would suit no one.
Both Belgrade and Priština have rejected the
possibility of partition. UNMIK has also denied it
would allow any Serbian police and army to redeploy in
the province.
Serbian News Network - SNN
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