EU: Independence for Kosovo-Metohija Unnaceptable
EU Willing to Sacrifice Kosovo-Metohija Independence
MOSCOW, Russia, Jan. 18, 2007 (Novye Izvestiya, Tanjug) — Europe is considering the possibility of reaching a decision on unacceptability of independence for Serbian Kosovo-Metohija province, and is willing to sacrifice the “friendship” of Albanian Muslims in Serbian province in order to continue to have a predictable partner in current Serbian Prime Minister Vojislav Kostunica, the Russian daily Novye Izvestiya reported on Thursday.
Europe is willing to sacrifice the planned hijacking of the Serbian province of Kosovo-Metohija in order to prevent a victory of the Radicals in Serbia, the daily said, adding that pressure was being intensified from Brussels onto the Albanian Muslim leadership in the province which was urged to peacefully accept any possible outcome of the process of defining the status of the sovereign Serbian province.
The Russian daily also reports, quoting sources close to the Serbian Foreign Ministry, that Javier Solana’s Commissariat of Foreign Affairs and Security was considering the possibility that a decision be reached at the level of the EU Council of Ministers on unacceptability of independence for Serbian Kosovo province, which would be viewed in the Serbian public as a major diplomatic success of its current government.
Brussels which, according to the author of the text, has already become used to the moderate Prime Minister Vojislav Kostunica, is afraid of a possible victory of the Serbian Radical Party at the elections, and European emissaries are willing to do all they can in order to prevent Serbian Radicals from setting up a new government.
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