Kosovo Serb leaders on the deployment of the EULEX mission 19. October 2008. | 18:30 http://www.emportal.co.yu/img/red-blue-arrow.gif18:31
Source: EMportal Kosovo Serb leaders expressed caution towards indications of the deployment of the EU civil mission in the province, indicating that this mission was acceptable only provided that Ahtisaari’s plan on the so-called supervised independence is not implemented. Kosovo Serb leaders expressed caution towards indications of the deployment of the EU civil mission in the province, indicating that this mission was acceptable only provided that Ahtisaari’s plan on the so-called supervised independence is not implemented. President of the Serb National Council of Kosmet Dragan Velic stressed that EULEX can be acceptable for Kosovo Serbs only if it has a mandate from the UN Security Council, in accordance with UN SC Resolution 1244. Head of the Serbian National Council for Northern Kosmet Milan Ivanovic said that only the UN mission has legitimacy and that no one can deceive Kosovo Serbs that EULEX would be status neutral. Leader of the Serbian Movement of Resistance Momcilo Trajkovic said that Serbian President Boris Tadic had a very good proposal under which conditions the EU mission can be deployed in the province. Trajkovic supported the position of official Belgrade that EULEX must have approval of the UN SC and be fully status neutral, which means that it cannot implement Ahtisaari’s plan. Minister for Kosovo-Metohija Goran Bogdanovic stated today in the Metohija village of Osojane near Istok that Serbia has not altered its policy toward the province and that the government will intensify the struggle for the preservation of its territorial integrity. Our two basic goals are the fight to preserve Serbia’s territorial integration and strengthen the Serbian community in the province, and in future we will employ more efforts to create favourable conditions for the return of the displaced, said Bogdanovic. He reiterated that the EULEX deployment in the province will be acceptable to Serbia only if the UN Security Council gives the green light and if EULEX remains status-neutral and does not attempt to implement Martti Ahtisaari’s plan. Istok municipal president Dragoljub Repanovic informed Bogdanovic and the president of the Coordinating Centre for Kosovo-Metohija Zvonimir Stevic that returnees of Serbian nationality are facing huge problems in Metohija. War is inevitable again one day in the Balkans due to the conditions faced by the Serb minority in Kosovo, the acting head of the Serbian Orthodox Church said. Metropolitan Amfilohije Radovic said Kosovo’s Serbs face hostility from the mainly Muslim ethnic Albanians, who make up about 90 percent of the population. “Amid such injustice, there cannot be peace,” Amfilohije said in an interview late on Thursday at his headquarters in the Monastery of Cetinje in Montenegro. “It will be the root of future conflict, that is as clear as day.” He said he wanted peace but was “realistic.” “There will be some period of peace, but it will be a time that prepares for new conflict, new war, new struggle,” he said http://www.emportal.co.yu/en/news/serbia/66160.html
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