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Tanjug (Serbia)
August 26, 2007
"Independence arguments dangerous"
WASHINGTON - Serbian Ambassador to the United States
Ivan Vujaèiæ has reacted to an editorial published
earlier in the Wall Street Journal.
The ambassador said an argument that the recognition
of Kosovo's independence was the only way to avoid
unrest and violence in the province was dangerous.
The most disturbing part of the argument of the
paper's editor Matthew Kaminski's piece is that the
urgent recognition of independence is the only way to
avoid unrest and violence, Vujaèiæ said in his
response, published by the New York daily on Saturday.
"Serbia offers Kosovo the widest possible autonomy
within Serbia, even exceeding European standards. It
wants fair negotiations, rather than those with a
predetermined solution. It wants the process to move
forward under UN auspices, because this organization
has defined the present status of Kosovo in UN
Security Council Resolution 1244," Vujaèiæ wrote.
He added that Serbia called for the observation of its
sovereignty and territorial integrity and strongly
opposed the creation of new borders in the Balkans.
"Like we all agree that Kosovo should not be divided,
some have apparently failed to notice that
independence of Kosovo (Serbian province which did not
have the status of a republic in the former
Yugoslavia) would in fact represent the division of
Serbia," Vujaèiæ argued.
He wondered why Serbia should be exposed to "such
tough choices or even blackmail suggested by
Kaminski."
"What would Kaminski say if somebody made Kosovo
Albanians choose between the European Union or
independence," Vujaèiæ said in his response.
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