[Crvena zvezda]

Kosovo independence to cause "escalation of international terrorism" - Serb body
March 04, 2006
YU, ME

Text of report by Serbian independent news agency FoNet
Kosovska Mitrovica, 4 March: Representatives of the Serb National Council [SNV] for Kosovo-Metohija have concluded at a session in Kosovska Mitrovica that the independence of Kosovo-Metohija would cause an escalation of international terrorism.
The SNV sent a message to the European Union, USA and NATO that current democratic Serbia was the sole guarantor of peace in the region, adding that an independent Kosovo would turn current democratic Serbia to a radical, revisionist, vengeful and bitter nation.
An independent Kosovo, the SNV assessed, would become a base for a Jihad-oriented terrorism, a "white al-Qa'idah", as well as a source of chaos in the region which would send a message to terrorists across the world that crime and terrorism pay off.
"We received the news that [Kosovo Protection Corps commander] Agim Ceku is the candidate for the prime minister of Kosovo with astonishment," the SNV stated, asking what perspective the survival of the Serb people in the province had if Ceku's name was linked with a crematorium near Klecka village and other crimes against the Serb people.
The conclusions of the SNV session, read out by Banjska Monastery Abbot Father Simeon, gave full support to Belgrade's negotiation team [for Kosovo status talks].
Full support was also given to the stance taken by the Serbian Orthodox Church's Holy Synod dated November 2005, which Raska-Prizren Bishop Artemije recently made pressing - that an imposed solution for Kosovo would be considered an "illegitimate and unlawful occupation of a part of our national territory".