Brussels: The European Union officials in Brussels said late yesterday that the Stabilization and Association Agreement (SAA) will be offered to Serbia for signing in the exact form in which it was initiated and initialed.

The EU officials late on Wednesday said, “No changes will be made” in the Stabilization and Association Agreement (SAA).
It means that the EU officials signalized that the SAA text will retain Article 135 that articulates that Kosovo is under temporary UN administration, based on UN Security Council Resolution 1244, and that signing the SAA does not predetermine the province’s status.

Responding to the Serbian PM Vojislav Kostunica’s demand that “a sentence affirming Kosovo as an integral and inalienable part of Serbia” should be added to the agreement before it is signed, the EU officials said that the Serbian government had negotiated and initialed the existing text of the agreement, and that it should be signed as such.

When asked to comment on whether Kosovo’s unilateral independence, declared in the meantime, does change matters, as also claimed by the Serbian prime minister, the EU officials replied that “the UN have confirmed that UNMIK remains the only administration in Kosovo, in line with Resolution 1244″.