Serbia recalls ambassador from US

[December]

America and EU shoudn't recognize Kosovo.
Kosovo will become Europe's Palestine..... There will be blood....

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Serbia has recalled its ambassador from Washington in protest at US recognition of Kosovo's independence, saying the US has "violated international law".

Prime Minister Vojislav Kostunica also threatened to withdraw envoys from other countries which recognised the territory's secession from Serbia.
Mr Kostunica said the envoy's recall was Serbia's "first urgent measure". France, the UK, Germany and Italy have all recognised the new state following its declaration of independence.
In New York, Serbian President Boris Tadic has made an impassioned appeal to the UN Security Council to reject Kosovo's declaration.

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Kosovo Serbs rally on their side of the main bridge in Mitrovica to reject independence

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WHY ARE KOSOVO SERBS PROTESTING

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Russia looks to UN Security Council to annul Kosovo independence

18/ 02/ 2008

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MOSCOW, February 18 (RIA Novosti) - Russia hopes that the UN Security Council will annul as illegitimate Kosovo's unilateral declaration of sovereignty, a Russian official said on Monday.

"We hope that the UN Security Council will determine the situation within the framework of resolution 1244 and assess this act as illegitimate and contradicting the UN Charter and the resolution on Kosovo's status," Alexander Botsan-Kharchenko, Russia's envoy on the Kosovo status talks, said.
Britain, Germany, Italy and France have already recognized Kosovo. The U.S. looks set to follow suit shortly. Russia and Serbia, among other states, remain opposed to any unilateral declaration of independence by Pristina.

"It is obvious that we [Russia] are not recognizing Kosovo's independence. We will be seeking the annulment of the declaration by the UN mission in Kosovo," the official said.
Kosovo has been a UN protectorate since the NATO bombing of the former Yugoslavia ended a conflict between Albanian and Serb forces in 1999. Over 200,000 Serbians have left Kosovo since 1999 and some 100,000 are still living in the province, which has a total population of two million.

READ MORE - http://en.rian.ru/world/20080218/99530247.html

[December]

Serbian Government recalls Serbian ambassador to Washington

Belgrade, Feb 18, 2008 – Serbian Prime Minister Vojislav Kostunica stated tonight in the Serbian parliament that the fact the US has recognised the fictitious state of Kosovo cannot make that state a real one and that the Serbian government has immediately recalled the Serbian Ambassador to Washington.

The Serbian government’s official web site gives the Prime Minister’s speech in full.

"Honourable parliament members,

Prior to the beginning of this parliament session we heard US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice state that the US has recognised the fictitious state of Kosovo. Before the US, only Afghanistan has done so. This announcement by the US cannot turn a fictitious state into a real one, but it shows to the entire world the true violent face of the American policy of force. The Serbian government has recalled the Serbian Ambassador to Washington. This is the government’s first emergency measure which will apply to all countries that recognise the unilateral independence.

Yesterday, on February 17, 2008, the fictitious state of Kosovo was illegally declared on the territory of the sovereign Serbian state. Today begins our continuous fight to fully regain the entire province and restore Serbia’s constitutional order. That is our goal and Serbia will attain it. If we cannot fully achieve it today, we will do so tomorrow, because Serbia must remain free. Those who helped this fictitious state to come about forgot that Serbia has never and will never give up freedom.

Yesterday’s illegal act violated the UN Charter, Resolution 1244, the Helsinki Final Act and all norms of international law which international order is based on. The unilateral declaration of the fictitious Kosovo state directly jeopardises Serbia’s sovereignty and territorial integrity, its Constitution and constitutional order, as well as all legal and legitimate acts made by Serbia’s highest state institutions.

With its decision of February 14, 2008, the Serbian government in advance annulled all illegal acts of interim self-governing organs in Kosovo-Metohija and declared them null and void. This means that the unilateral declaration of this fictitious state on our soil has no legal consequences in the Republic of Serbia. Kosovo-Metohija remains an unalienable part of Serbia’s unified and indivisible constitutional and state legal order, and Serbs and all citizens of the southern Serbian province, who acknowledge the Republic of Serbia, are full and equal citizens of Serbia and have the right not to recognise illegal acts pertaining to the declaration of unilateral independence.

READ MORE - http://www.srbija.sr.gov.yu/vesti/vest.php?id=43299


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