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B92/Tanjug News Agency
February 11, 2010
Belgrade to intl. community: Condemn warmongering
BELGRADE: Ministry for Kosovo State Secretary Oliver Ivanovic has reacted to
statements coming from Kosovo Albanian politicians regarding Serbia's southern
area.
Ivanovic called on the international community to react to the Kosovo Albanian
assembly in Priština President Jakup Krasniqi's statement that ethnic Albanians
in the municipalities of Bujanovac and Presevo were "ready to join Kosovo".
"Serbia will not exchange something that is hers for something else that is
hers, nor is the concept of partition and exchange of territory on the table at
all from our side. We have absolutely rejected that idea," he stated on
Wednesday.
Ivanovic also said he was worried that the Kosovo politicians' warmongering did
not meet with reaction from the international community officials in the
province.
"They seem to be forgetting that such or similar moves in the past caused a lot
of complications, I won't say, conflicts. Therefore, the least we can expect is
for the EU and KFOR and NATO representatives, for the representatives of UNMIK
and EULEX, to condemn this and make it clear to Jakup Krasniqi and to everyone
else, that these stories should not be placed in public that they are damaging
and dangerous," said Ivanovic.
Serbia's stance on Feith plan unchanged
Ivanovic said on Thursday that early local elections could be held in Kosovska
Mitrovica at the end of April, or the beginning of May, "which would make
completely insubstantial the plan of Chief of International Civilian Office
(ICO) Peter Feith for integration of northern Kosovo".
"Feith's plan for integration of the north of Kosovo into the interim Kosovo
institutions has no chance to succeed, but it could provoke tensions and
unnecessary conflicts in the north, which is why Serbia insists on the soonest
possible elections in Kosovska Mitrovica," Ivanovic told the Serbian state
broadcaster RTS.
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