[independent]President: Serbia will never accept an independent Kosovo

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President: Serbia will never accept an independent Kosovo
   

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Serbia's top leaders immediately rejected Kosovo's &quot;unilateral and illegal&quot;
  declaration of independence Sunday, but said they would not use force to
  reclaim the breakaway province.
</p>
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Reacting to the declaration by the ethnic Albanian-dominated assembly in the
  breakaway province, President Boris Tadic urged international organizations
  &quot;to immediately annul this act, which violates the basic principles of
  international law.&quot;
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&quot;Serbia will ... do everything in its power to revoke the unilateral and
  illegal declaration of independence,&quot; Tadic said in a statement.
</p>
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He urged Serbia's political parties and the 130,000 Serbs living in the
  province &quot;to remain calm,&quot; but stressed that Serbia would &quot;not resort to
  violence&quot; to achieve its goal of reuniting Kosovo.
</p>
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Serbian officials have prepared a secret &quot;action plan&quot; they said would not
  include military action, and warned that Serbia would downgrade relations
  with any foreign government that recognizes Kosovo's independence.
</p>
<p>
Belgrade has said it would retain control over areas inhabited by the
  130,000-strong Serb minority in Kosovo and that its laws would continue to
  apply there.
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Meanwhile, the country's prime minister, Vojislav Kostunica, lashed out at
  U.S. President George W. Bush over his support for Kosovo's independence,
  saying his name would go down in &quot;black letters&quot; in Serbian history.
</p>
<p>
Top Bush administration officials in the past have vigorously backed Kosovo's
  independence. The United States also led the 1999 NATO bombing campaign that
  ended Serbia's rule over the province of 2 million people, 90 percent of
  them ethnic Albanians.
</p>
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&quot;America places the policy of force above the U.N. Charter, it is violating
  international legal norms in order to further its own military interests,&quot;
  Kostunica said in a televised address to the nation.
</p>
<p>
&quot;This unprecedented case of lawlessness was brought about by the destructive,
  brutal and immoral policies of force imposed by the United States,&quot; he said.
</p>
<p>
Kostunica said the government will organize a series of peaceful protests
  against the declaration.
</p>
<p>
About 150 ultra-nationalists rallied Sunday in front of the U.S. Embassy in
  Belgrade, chanting slogans against the United States and NATO.
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[Leonidas]

I agree with him,: because its just an Albanian take over and should be stopped

[Taf]

I wonder what Mother Russia has to say about all this?

[Leonidas]

Also a number of Counties have stated that they do NOT recognise Kosovo as an Independant state