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Kosovo Serbs Support Radicals' Resolution

Community of Serbian municipalities and towns of Kosovo and Metohia and Serbian National Council (SNV) of northern Kosovo-Metohia representatives called Serbian MPs Friday to vote for the draft resolution on the protection of the integrity and sovereignty of Serbia proposed by the Serbian Radical Party (SRS).

According to Serbian news agency Tanjug, Community of Serbian municipalities and towns of Kosovo and Metohija president Marko Jaksic said that the body he was heading absolutely supports the SRS resolution on the protection of the integrity and sovereignty of Serbia in relations with international organizations, most notably with the European Union.

Jaksic, who was speaking at a press conference, assessed that the draft resolution proposed by the Radicals sends a clear signal that Serbia does not intend to enter the EU mutilated.

"We hope that, with the help of patriotic forces in the Serbian Assembly, parliament will adopt the SRS resolution and preserve the integrity of the Republic and that the Serbian Assembly will send a message that our country does not want into the EU without its Kosovo and Metohia," he said.

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Jaksic pointed out that the decision of the Serbian government, which gave a negative opinion about the Resolution, in a sense paves the way for the creation of another Albanian state in the Balkans.

"A nod and approval for the creation of an independent state of Kosovo was given in the cabinet of President Boris Tadic. Unfortunately, it looks as if he made a deal to give away Kosovo and Metohia as part of the state territory and that is shameful and outrageous," he said.

Jaksic underlined that the declaration of independent Kosovo was not created only in Brussels and Washington, but, as he said, first and foremost in Belgrade.

Serbian National Council President Milan Ivanovic also supported the resolution proposed by the Radicals, pointing that "for quite some time a policy of double standards has been pursued by two parties in the ruling coalition."

This shows, Ivanovic said, that "election promises deceived people, and that all capacities need to be put to use in the fight for Kosovo and Metohia."

Serbian Radical Party Resolution

According to Tanjug, Radicals' Resolution demands protection of the territorial integrity of the Republic of Serbia in relations with international organizations, calling on the European Union to clearly and unequivocally confirm the entirety of the state territory of Serbia and to withdraw its decision to deploy its mission to the Serbian province of Kosovo and Metohia.

The Resolution, supported by the greatest majority of the MPs (Radicals, Socialists, Democratic Party of Serbia and the New Serbia delegates), says that Serbian parliament "calls on the EU to clearly and unequivocally confirm the entirety of the state territory of the Republic of Serbia as the sole condition for the continuation of the talks on Serbia's association with the EU."

"Serbia will negotiate its EU membership only it the EU fulfills this minimum possible request of the state of Serbia," the Resolution says.

The Resolution warns the EU that only an entire Serbia within its internationally recognized borders can, wants and wishes to participate in European integrations.

The Resolution further asserts that Serbian parliament, in keeping with the UN Charter, the final Helsinki Act, UN Security Council Resolution 1244, the Constitution of the Republic of Serbia and resolutions adopted by the National Assembly, denounces in the strongest possible terms the EU decision to send its mission (EULEX) to southern Serbian province of Kosovo and Metohia.

It underscores that only the UN Security Council has the legitimacy to adopt decisions on changing the UN mission in Kosovo and Metohia province.

In the Resolution text, the Serbian parliament calls on the EU to, respecting European values realized by Serbia's state organs in keeping with the Serbian constitution, withdraw its illegal decision to deploy its mission and that EU countries which recognized the unilateral independence, annul this unlawful decision.

The Resolution emphasizes that Serbia is determined in the protection of its constitutional order and is certain that only peace and the respect of the sovereignty and territorial integrity of European states can contribute to long-term stability, both in the region and in the entire European continent.