[sorabia] Kostunica rejects claims that SAA is status-neutral

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http://www.srbija.sr.gov.yu/vesti/vest.php?id=45603

Kostunica rejects claims that SAA is status-neutral


Belgrade, April 30, 2008 – Serbian Prime Minister Vojislav Kostunica today 
rejected the claims by EU High Representative for Foreign Policy and Safety 
Javier Solana that the Stabilisation and Association Agreement (SAA) with the 
EU is status-neutral to Kosovo-Metohija.




The Serbian government’s official web site gives the Prime Minister’s statement 
in full.

“On the basis of Javier Solana’s statement, one could conclude that he is 
pleading for Serbia and for Kosovo to remain within Serbia and that I am 
against it. And Solana’s main argument is that the SAA is status-neutral to 
Kosovo-Metohija.

If Solana’s assertion is true, then what was he doing as an EU official in 
Pristina when he congratulated people, for whom international wanted notices 
have been issued, on their independence? Does the EU’s decision to deploy its 
EULEX mission in order to implement Ahtisaari’s plan represent a breach of the 
SAA or has the SAA thus remained status-neutral? Was the SAA breached when 18 
EU countries recognised Kosovo and has this agreement remained status-neutral 
after that? And when these states which recognised Kosovo ratify the SAA 
through their parliaments, will they thus annul their decision to recognise 
Kosovo and return the SAA to a neutral status, or will they ratify an agreement 
which refers to a divided Serbia without Kosovo? 

If we look at it without deception, we will see that the true answer to these 
questions is well-known. Perhaps Solana does not know it, but every Serbian 
citizen knows it. Just as every Serb knows that Solana’s decision to bomb 
Serbia was not neutral but utterly senseless. Just as every Serb knows that the 
decision to set up Bondsteel base is not status-neutral, but that it meant the 
construction of the capital city of the first NATO state which Solana began 
creating by bombing Serbia. And we all know very well that Ahtisaari’s plan, 
implemented by the EULEX mission, is also not status-neutral but that it 
affirms that NATO is the supreme authority in Kosovo.

Solana should know that a number of still visible ruined facilities throughout 
Serbia are his doing. If not for anything else, then least of all because it is 
not appropriate to compare who loves Serbia more, me or him”, reads the Prime 
Minister’s statement.


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