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Agence France-Presse
December 11, 2007
Serbia rejects EU proposal on Kosovo
BELGRADE - Serbia is not prepared to trade off
Kosovo’s independence for any deal with the European
Union, Deputy Prime Minister Bozidar Djelic said
yesterday as EU powers backed the province’s
statehood.
"There will be no trade of Kosovo for Europe, nor will
Serbia ever accept it, and nobody’s offering it,"
Djelic told journalists in Belgrade, according to
state-run news agency Tanjug.
"The European Union isn’t a country, isn’t a member of
the United Nations, and nor will it be a part of the
process on Kosovo.
"That process belongs to the UN Security Council and
all member countries of the United Nations, but in no
way the European Union," said Djelic.
Serbia and the European Union last month initialled a
so-called Stabilisation and Association Agreement,
considered the first stepping stone for Western Balkan
nations on the path to eventual EU membership.
The act of initialling the SAA has symbolic but little
legal value, only meaning that Belgrade and Brussels
approve the content of the agreement’s text.
Djelic, the deputy prime minister for EU integration,
had previously targeted the full signing of the accord
by January 28.
"In the worst-case scenario, the reputation of (EU)
member countries will deteriorate (in Serbia)...."
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