Samardžić: Ban "utterly wrong"

<a href="http://www.b92.net/eng/news/politics-article.php?yyyy=2008&mm=01&dd=01&nav_id=46609" class="text-link" target= "_blank">Ban Ki-moon's statement</a> that delays over Kosovo could lead to regional instability is "utterly wrong", Slobodan Samardžić says.

Izvor: Tanjug

Wednesday, 02.01.2008.

11:45

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Ban Ki-moon's statement that delays over Kosovo could lead to regional instability is "utterly wrong", Slobodan Samardzic says. The Minister for Kosovo reacted late Tuesday to the UN secretary-general's remarks, by saying the reality was "the other way round." Samardzic: Ban "utterly wrong" "The secession of Kosovo from Serbia is more likely to cause instability in the region than the prevention of secession," he told Tanjug. "The 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 pointed out. The minister said that Serbia had sent ts response to the UN over what it described as "selective and implausible" report of UN secretary general's special representative in the province, Joachim Ruecker, in citing "a large number of tragic and unpleasant facts about the reality in Kosovo and Metohija that Ruecker failed to mention in his report." Reminding that a debate was scheduled at the UN Security Council for January 9, to center on Ruecker's report, Samardzic said he hoped that the ministry's response 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 those standards," Samardzic said.

Samardžić: Ban "utterly wrong"

"The secession of Kosovo from Serbia is more likely to cause instability in the region than the prevention of secession," he told Tanjug.

"The 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," Samardžić pointed out.

The minister said that Serbia had sent ts response to the UN over what it described as "selective and implausible" report of UN secretary general's special representative in the province, Joachim Ruecker, in citing "a large number of tragic and unpleasant facts about the reality in Kosovo and Metohija that Ruecker failed to mention in his report."

Reminding that a debate was scheduled at the UN Security Council for January 9, to center on Ruecker's report, Samardžić said he hoped that the ministry's response 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 those standards," Samardžić said.

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