Talk of changes to 1244 “test for Serbia”

Ministry for Kosovo State Secretary Oliver Ivanovic said that rumors of a coming change in UNSC Resolution 1244 was a test for Serbia. “I do not think that it will be a serious effort, but a test to see what our reaction will be, and it is already known" he said. Talk of changes to 1244 “test for Serbia” "No one would give up on the strongest asset we have, which is the Security Council’s Resolution 1244,” Ivanovic explained. The resolution was passed in 1999 to end the war in Kosovo and Belgrade maintains that it protects the country's territorial integrity in the face of the Kosovo Albanian unilateral independence declaration made in early 2008. “We can only give up on the resolution if an agreement is reached first in new negotiations, which, if it in any way strayed outside of the resolution could change our stance, but that will not happen,” Ivanovic concluded.

Talk of changes to 1244 “test for Serbia”

"No one would give up on the strongest asset we have, which is the Security Council’s Resolution 1244,” Ivanović explained.

The resolution was passed in 1999 to end the war in Kosovo and Belgrade maintains that it protects the country's territorial integrity in the face of the Kosovo Albanian unilateral independence declaration made in early 2008.

“We can only give up on the resolution if an agreement is reached first in new negotiations, which, if it in any way strayed outside of the resolution could change our stance, but that will not happen,” Ivanović concluded.