DEP:KOSTUNICA-US-STATEMENT KOSTUNICA CALLS ON US TO ANNUL DECISION ON KOSOVO
16:27 BELGRADE, Feb 24 (Tanjug) - Serbian Prime Minister Vojislav Kostunica called on the United States on Sunday to annul their decision on recognising the independence of Kosovo and Metohija and reestablish the rule of international law. "The United States should annul the decision on recognising a false state on the Serbian territory and create conditions for the Security Council to confirm the validity of Resolution 1244 which guarantees Serbia's sovereignty and territorial integrity," Kostunica told Tanjug. "This is the right way to reestablish the fundamental principles of international law and the UN Charter in the Balkans," the Serbian prime minister said. He underlined that responsibility lay with the US to make it possible for things to return to their previous state and to ensure, by a confirmation of Resolution 1244 at the SC, that stability and peace be regained in the region. "Otherwise, a continued policy of force will only deepen the crisis which undermines the foundations of the entire world order and threatens to jeopardise peace and stability, not only in the Balkans," Kostunica stressed. The prime minister pointed out that the Serbian government highly appreciated the stand of a vast number of countries that had not recognised the existence of the false state on the Serbian land. "All these countries are in this way defending peace, stability and freedom, as the highest values of the modern world," Kostunica underscored. (end) jpe/dz
