Belgrade: The first move for the new parliament and government will be to annul “the Tadic-Delic SAA signature”, announced the Serbian Prime Minister Vojislav Kostunica, DSS, yesterday.

Speaking in Belgrade, Kostunica said that no responsible European country and no responsible statesman would ever do what the President Boris Tadic and Deputy Premier Bozidar ?elic have done when they signed the Stabilization and Association Agreement (SAA) with the European Union on Tuesday. He said, “This agreement has only one goal, to be interpreted as Serbia’s signature to Kosovo’s independence.”

“Nothing will come out of this trick, because after the elections, the new government and parliament will annul the Tadi?-?eli? signature,” said the leader of the DSS-NS coalition, running in the May 11 ballot.

He reiterated that since 18 of the 27 EU states have recognized the false state of Kosovo and in this way “violated the SAA in the crudest manner”, a discussion with Brussels should have preceded the signing, in order to protect Serbia’s national and state interests.

He said, “Imagine if Serbia, for instance, recognized Scotland’s independence, while Great Britain swiftly proceeded to sign a deal with Serbia that pertains to Great Britain’s territorial integrity. No European state would have done what Tadic and Delic have done.”

Kostunica explained why he consistently refers to the SAA as “Solana’s agreement”, because the EU foreign policy chief is the document’s main creator. “Since this is not a true Stabilization and Association Agreement, because the true agreement was violated by the 18 states the moment they recognized Kosovo as the first NATO state, then it is only right that this agreement, such as it is, should be named after its main creator,” he said. He also dismissed as nonsensical warnings that Serbia could face political and economic isolation in case Belgrade opted to annul the SAA.