Samardžić sharply criticizes Solana over EU mission

International law does not exist for Javier Solana, Minister for Kosovo Slobodan Samardžić said Friday.

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International law does not exist for Javier Solana, Minister for Kosovo Slobodan Samardzic said Friday. Samardzic told Tanjug that the EU foreign policy chief's stand that the sending of an EU mission to Kosovo would not represent a violation of international law “can only mean that for Solana, international law does not exist at all.” Samardzic sharply criticizes Solana over EU mission "Announcements that the EU Council of Ministers might reach a final decision on January 28 on sending the EU mission to Kosovo would not only represent a most brutal violation of international law and Resolution 1244, but such a decision would also annul the initialed Stabilization and Association Agreement (SAA)," Samardzic warned in a strongly worded statement for the agency. He underlined that having initialed the SAA, both Serbia and the EU had “strictly obliged” themselves to observe the UN Charter, Resolution 1244 and the Final Helsinki Act. “All these basic documents fully guarantee the sovereignty and territorial integrity of Serbia within its current internationally recognized borders,” Samardzic pointed out. “International law has to be observed and because of this the EU is not allowed to reach a decision on January 28 on the illegal deployment of its mission in Kosovo and Metohija,” he added. Solana said, in an interview for the Belgrade weekly NIN, that the fact the EU had decided to send its mission to Kosovo could not be qualified as a violation of international law, although UN Security Council Resolution 1244 did not mention such a possibility. "I do not know that anyone wants to violate international law," Solana said in comments published this Friday. "The EU has only reached a decision to prepare a mission which could assist the police, judiciary, protect the churches and provide economic assistance to Kosovo," he explained. "I do not believe that this can be qualified as a violation of international law," Solana concluded.

Samardžić sharply criticizes Solana over EU mission

"Announcements that the EU Council of Ministers might reach a final decision on January 28 on sending the EU mission to Kosovo would not only represent a most brutal violation of international law and Resolution 1244, but such a decision would also annul the initialed Stabilization and Association Agreement (SAA)," Samardžić warned in a strongly worded statement for the agency.

He underlined that having initialed the SAA, both Serbia and the EU had “strictly obliged” themselves to observe the UN Charter, Resolution 1244 and the Final Helsinki Act.

“All these basic documents fully guarantee the sovereignty and territorial integrity of Serbia within its current internationally recognized borders,” Samardžić pointed out.

“International law has to be observed and because of this the EU is not allowed to reach a decision on January 28 on the illegal deployment of its mission in Kosovo and Metohija,” he added.

Solana said, in an interview for the Belgrade weekly NIN, that the fact the EU had decided to send its mission to Kosovo could not be qualified as a violation of international law, although UN Security Council Resolution 1244 did not mention such a possibility.

"I do not know that anyone wants to violate international law," Solana said in comments published this Friday.

"The EU has only reached a decision to prepare a mission which could assist the police, judiciary, protect the churches and provide economic assistance to Kosovo," he explained.

"I do not believe that this can be qualified as a violation of international law," Solana concluded.

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