EU: SAA to remain unchanged

The EU's Stabilization and Association Agreement (SAA), if offered to Serbia will be signed in the exact form in which it was initialed.

Izvor: Beta

Thursday, 17.04.2008.

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The EU's Stabilization and Association Agreement (SAA), if offered to Serbia will be signed in the exact form in which it was initialed. This was reported late on Wednesday by Beta news agency, who quoted EU officials in Brussels as saying that "no changes will be made". EU: SAA to remain unchanged This means, the officials pointed out, that the text is to keep Article 135, which states that Kosovo is under temporary UN administration, based on UN Security Council Resolution 1244, and that signing the SAA does not predetermine the province's status. Asked to comment on Serbian Prime Minister Vojislav Kostunica's demand that "a sentence affirming Kosovo as an integral and inalienable part of Serbia" should be added to the agreement before it is signed, officials of the EU Council of Ministers and the European Commission stressed that the Serbian government had negotiated and initialed the existing text of the agreement, and that it should be signed as such. According to the officials, this is also in response to "the internal political pre-election reasons" for Kostunica's statement that the existing initialed agreement is "Solana's agreement." Asked whether Kosovo's unilateral independence, declared in the meantime, does change matters, as also claimed by the Serbian prime minister, the EU sources replied that "the UN have confirmed that UNMIK remains the only administration in Kosovo, in line with Resolution 1244".

EU: SAA to remain unchanged

This means, the officials pointed out, that the text is to keep Article 135, which states that Kosovo is under temporary UN administration, based on UN Security Council Resolution 1244, and that signing the SAA does not predetermine the province's status.

Asked to comment on Serbian Prime Minister Vojislav Koštunica's demand that "a sentence affirming Kosovo as an integral and inalienable part of Serbia" should be added to the agreement before it is signed, officials of the EU Council of Ministers and the European Commission stressed that the Serbian government had negotiated and initialed the existing text of the agreement, and that it should be signed as such.

According to the officials, this is also in response to "the internal political pre-election reasons" for Koštunica's statement that the existing initialed agreement is "Solana's agreement."

Asked whether Kosovo's unilateral independence, declared in the meantime, does change matters, as also claimed by the Serbian prime minister, the EU sources replied that "the UN have confirmed that UNMIK remains the only administration in Kosovo, in line with Resolution 1244".

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