SERBIAN OFFICIAL WARNS BOSNIAN SERBS, CROATS MAY SEEK SAME AS KOSOVO ALBANIANS
BBC Monitoring International Reports - April 8, 2006 Saturday

Text of report by Serbian independent news agency FoNet

Belgrade, 8 April: The chairman of the Coordination Centre for Kosovo-Metohija, Sanda Raskovic-Ivic, said today that Kosovo independence would be in violation and in total disregard of international law. She noted that an imposed solution for Kosovo would open a whole series of other processes.

"If you have a violation of international law in one place, then this can turn into a principle," Sanda Raskovic-Ivic said in a statement to journalists, following a session of the [Serbian] Economic Team for Kosovo-Metohija and Southern Serbia. She said that there were a great many places in Europe and the world awaiting the outcome of the negotiations about the final status of Kosovo.

"If this solution is imposed and if it is not in line with international law, then there is no reason for the Albanians in western Macedonia, northern Greece and Montenegro not to ask for the very same thing sought by the Albanians in Kosovo-Metohija," Sanda Raskovic-Ivic said.

She said that that the Serbs in the [Bosnian] Serb Republic, and Croats in Herceg-Bosna could seek the same thing, because "if two Albanian states in the Balkans are possible, then two Serb and two Croat states are also possible".

Source: FoNet news agency, Belgrade, in Serbian 1254 gmt 8 Apr 06

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