Serbia says it will use 'all peaceful means' to keep Kosovo

0 Comments | AFP, February, 2008

BRATISLAVA (AFP) — Serbia will use all peaceful means to protect the country's territorial integrity if the province of Kosovo declares independence, Serbian Foreign Minister Vuk Jeremic said Friday.

"We will use all the diplomatic, political, economic and legal means to defend the sovereignty and territorial integrity of our country," Jeremic said during a visit to Bratislava. He was speaking at a joint press conference with his Slovak counterpart Jan Kubis.

Serbia's government had adopted a "secret plan" for use if the mainly ethnic Albanian province of Kosovo, declared independence, he said. But he refused to give any details of what it entailed.

Hashim Thaci, prime minister of Kosovo, which has been under United Nations control since 1999, has warned...