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Serbian Portal: Protest of Warning
Against the EU Mission for Recognition of Independence

Saturday, February 16, 2008, at 2 p.m. outside the Slovenian Embassy in Belgrade

At the moment when the European Union intends to send its mission for recognition of the Kosovo and Metohija independence, and when certain countries are preparing to back this brutal theft of our state territory, the network of Serbian non-governmental organizations is calling all Serbian citizens to rise against this intolerable violation of the international law, tearing of the territorial sovereignty of our fatherland and the strike against peace in the Balkans and in Europe.

Our protest of warning is aimed at great European powers, but also at the surrounding countries and states in the region. All of them ought to think carefully before they make a move to grab part of the territory of their neighbor, a sovereign European state.

This is especially important for Slovenia, currently presiding over the European Union, which represents the symbol of American dominance in Europe and the symbol of an anti-European act of occupation of Kosovo and Metohija, the Christian heart of Europe. Serbian nation has not forgotten that the foundation of the Slovenian banana republic was in 1991 built upon the lives of the Serbian young men who, even though unarmed, have been slain by the Slovenian separatists. Seventeen years later, Slovenia again wants to be the first to assail Serbian lives and occupy Kosovo and Metohija. Our protest of warning to the Slovenian state is addressed to all the other countries in the region, as well as to all the other European and world states calling for the independence of Kosovo and Metohija.

At the same time, we are also notifying the world public that the new redrawing of the Balkan borders would reopen the issue of artificial, bogus AVNOJ [Yugoslav Communist] borders drawn across the life-tissue of the Serbian nation. Redrawing of Serbian borders automatically signals the moment for the changing of all the other borders of the new states in Balkans and renewing the question of Serbian people.

Protest organizers are: Serbian National Movement "1389", Civic Association "Nasi" (Ours) — Arandjelovac, Pan-Slavic Literary Society, Djurdjevi Stupovi Monastery Friendship Society, Defenders of the Fatherland 1998-1999, Nomokanon Association of Law School Students and the Serbian Gathering Portal (Srpski Sabor Dveri) association for national culture and social issues.

We invite all our members, sympathizers and associates to join the protest along with their coworkers, neighbors, friends, cousins, children and entire families, so we can testify together what do we care for and show the beautiful Christian face of Serbia.

Who, if not us? When, if not now?

Kosovo-Metohija Students and Youth Start Organizing

According to Tanjug, Serbian youth organizations active in Kosovo and Metohija province have today agreed on a joint strategy and activities in case of unilateral proclamation of the province's independence, as well as on joint activities on preservation of Kosovo and Metohija, representative of the DSS youth Nemanja Jaksic said.

All Serbian youth organizations in southern province of Kosovo, including student organizations, youth branches of political parties and those from the non-government sector, met late on Wednesday on the initiative of the Democratic Youth (DS), Youth of the Democratic Party of Serbia (DSS) and Social Democratic Youth (SDP) in order to coordinate their activities aimed at preventing severing of the southern Serbian province of Kosovo.

Nemanja Jaksic said that the next steps will be to set up a coordination body of those organizations which will organize debates, protest rallies and other activities aimed at presenting to the domestic and foreign public the situation and the issue of province of Kosovo-Metohija and that it may never be an independent state.

"This is a call for unity and awakening of the Serbian people, because Kosovo and Metohija is one of the most important issues of the state of Serbia," said Jaksic.

The youth branches of the three political parties said in their joint statement that they expect young people to assume an active role in the difficult historic period for the remaining Serbian population in Kosovo and Metohija, and Serbia in general.