If Kosovo Goes, So Will Republic of Srpska
Declaring the opening of the Self-Determination Season for All! Common Albanian graffiti in the southern Serbian province of Kosovo: “No negotiations — Self-Determination!”
Bosnian Serbs: Independent Kosovo Paves Way for Independent RS
The Serb Popular Movement (SNP) "Izbor je nas" ("The Choice Is Ours") on Thursday sent an open letter to European Parliament Delegation to South East Europe Chairwoman Doris Pack, informing that a possible proclamation of independence by the Kosovo Albanian provincial parliament would pave the way to the Republika Srpska (RS) National Assembly automatically proclaiming the RS an independent state.
“The RS and Kosovo-Metohija have nothing in common, provided Kosovo-Metohija remains within the composition of the state of Serbia, since that is in keeping with international law and justice. But there is a connection if the Kosovo Albanian parliament proclaims independence, because that would give the National Assembly the right to proclaim the RS an independent state,” SNP President Dane Cankovic told a press conference at the Tanjug Press Center in Banjaluka, capital of Republika Srpska in Bosnia.
Serbs in Bosnia Should Exercise Their Right to Self-Determination
The RS can take advantage of its right to self-determination, guaranteed under the United Nations Charter, because Serbs are a constituent nation in Bosnia-Herzegovina, while Kosovo-Metohija Albanians do not have that right, Cankovic said.
Kosovo-Metohija “Albanians are a national minority, and they have created the demographic majority in Kosovo through illegal ways during the communist times, when Serbs had been banished and banned from returning to the ancestral Serb lands - Kosovo and Metohija,” Cankovic said.
The letter was sent to Pack on the occasion of her statement that the RS has no interest in leaving Bosnia-Herzegovina, and on the occasion of the letter by RS Prime Minister Milorad Dodik to Pack, telling her that the outcome of the status talks regarding the southern Serbian province has nothing in common with the RS, Cankovic elaborated.