Belgrade: The Stabilization and Association Agreement (SAA) leads to the breakup of Serbia – said the Serbian Prime Minister Vojislav Kostunica, DSS, yesterday, while he was touring the reconstruction site Avala TV Tower that NATO bombed in 1999.

Kostunica, the leader of the Democratic Party of Serbia (DSS), said, “I cannot understand how someone can think that Kosovo will be better protected once it is given up.” He said, “Personally, I have referred to the act of signing of the SAA as anti-Constitutional and anti-state.”

“Europe is not paradise, Europe is a necessity, but it makes no sense to expect that milk and honey will flow if SAA is signed, or after joining the EU. Besides, no country ever secured a better standard of living for its citizens by surrendering its territory. This is a road toward Serbia’s puppet status, that leads only to further fragmenting of our country,” Kostunica said

He said that “the Tadi?-?eli? signature is not Serbia’s signature, and it will undoubtedly be annulled by the new government and parliament”, and added that the SAA indirectly recognized Kosovo.

He also raised the issue of the identity of Tadi?’s special envoy that Dutch Foreign Minister Maxime Verhagen recently said told him it was Koštunica who was blocking the Hague cooperation. “I don’t know who the special representative is, that’s why I’m asking the question publicly. It’s a disgrace for a county to have the president’s special envoy appraise and inform about the prime minister to a foreign country, without any basis in fact whatsoever,” Kostunica said.

Kostunica said the issue of post-election cooperation with President Boris Tadic’s Democrats (DS) is an issue of two completely different policies, with “essential differences surfacing in the meantime”.

Speaking of the coalition with the DS and G17 Plus in the now caretaker government, Kostunica said, “This is not about [Nenad] ?anak, this is about our common policy ceasing to exist at one point, and it was for this reason that I suggested new elections.” He said, “G17 Plus now says that to claim that Kosovo is Serbia is tantamount to insanity, just as is advocating preservation of the territorial integrity. So what’s there to talk about with them, after all this?”