| Serbia won’t allow division of Kosovo, says Minister |
| 13 August 2006 | 15:49
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ŠABAC --
Dragan Jočić said that Serbia will not allow Kosovo to be divided.
“Today the battle for Kosovo is being led at the discussions at which Serbia is stating that it will not accept anything that any free democratic country would not accept. Serbia will not be the first to give up its own territory,” the Internal Affairs Minister said at a ceremony where wreaths were placed on the monument of the Mišarska Heroes.
He compared the demand for the independence of Kosovo with the amputation of an appendage.
“You cannot amputate the limb of a patient on his deathbed without consent; much less amputate 15 percent of a democratic nation’s territory in the 21st century.” Jočić said.
What is interesting is that Jočić’s comments come only a day after his party colleague from the Democratic Party of Serbia, Kosovo Coordination Centre President Sanda Rašković-Ivić, said that Serbia would be willing to divide Kosovo.
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