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The assessment by UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon that further delay in resolving status of Serbian Kosovo province might lead to instability in the region is utterly wrong. On the contrary, “secession of Kosovo from Serbia is more likely to cause instability in the region than the prevention of secession,” Minister for Kosovo and Metohija Slobodan Samardzic said on Tuesday.
“UN Secretary General should be concerned with respect for international law, and not with the separatist aspirations of militant representatives of national minorities. If there were a recognition of an illegally seceded Kosovo, it would be a sign to all separatist movements in the world that something like that is admissible,” Samardzic said.
Kosovo and Metohija Minister said that Serbia had sent to the UN its response to the “selective and implausible report” of UN Secretary General’s special representative Joachim Ruecker. Serbian response cites “a large number of tragic and unpleasant facts about the reality in Kosovo-Metohija that Ruecker failed to mention in his report.”
Recalling that on January 9 UN Security Council would review Ruecker’s report, Samardzic said he hoped that report of the Ministry, or the response to Ruecker's report would “agitate spirits in the Security Council and cause the secretary general to stop promising independence to Kosovo.”
“Kosovo is a territory in which human rights and minority rights are not respected and where standards are far from being met. The immediate matter at hand should be that standards begin to be met,” Samardzic said.