Kosovo Serbs want ideas of dismembering Serbia condemned

KOSOVSKA MITROVICA - The mayors of the northern Kosovo-Metohija municipalities have urged EU representatives to publicly condemn ideas of dismembering Serbia, voicing their disappointment at the diplomatic silence following a statement by "ethnic Albanian terrorists in southern Serbia who are threatening with secession of a part of Serbian territory."

The president of the Bujanovac municipal assembly Jonuz Musliu, a former political leader of the self-styled Liberation Army of Presevo, Medvedja and Bujanovac, said on Tuesday that, should Ukraine's Crimea join Russia, the same right should be granted to the Bujanovac and Presevo municipalities, whose population voted in favour of an annexation to Kosovo in 1992.

In a statement to Tanjug, the mayors of the Zvecan, North Mitrovica, Zubin Potok and Leposavic municipalities said on Thursday that they had waited patiently for three days for representatives of the international community to condemn such statements.
"We are particularly disappointed at the silence of EU representatives and diplomats brought together by the diplomatic group Friends of Southern Serbia, who rarely miss an opportunity to make statements on any event in Presevo or Bujanovac. However, they remained silent this time," the statement said.

The policy of double standards led to the conflict in Kosovo-Metohija, and it is not possible to vociferously defend Ukraine's territorial integrity while remaining even more vociferously silent as regards calls for dismembering Serbia, they said.

The mayors urged the EU representatives and diplomats in the Friends of Southern Serbia group to publicly condemn the ideas of dismembering Serbia and protect the country's territorial integrity.

At the same...