"Illegal formation in Serbian territory, do not join it"

The director of the Office for Kosovo and Metohija also said that this so-called army is formed with the goal of changing the country's borders by force.

Djuric's complete address reads as follows:

"The parliament of the provisional institutions of self-government in Pristina today, without the participation of Serb representatives, based on the mono-ethnic diktat of the Albanian majority in Kosovo and Metohija, and contrary to all applicable provisions of domestic and international public law, decided to form the so-called Kosovo army. The decision is an act against peace and an act of political aggression against our country, which aims to round off the process of the violent separation of a part of the territory of the Republic of Serbia, and the creation of an Albanian independent state, the so-called 'Republic of Kosovo', throughout the territory of the AP (Autonomous Province) Kosovo and Metohija. Considering that the decision on its establishment has been made contrary to the Constitution and laws of the Republic of Serbia, contrary to the provisional constitutional framework of Kosovo, but also contrary to UN (Security Council) Resolution 1244 and the Kumanovo Military Technical Agreemen, which ended the armed conflict in Kosovo and Metohija in 1999, the so-called Kosovo army represents an illegal occupying armed formation in the territory of the Republic of Serbia.

The illegal and separatist character of this illegal occupying formation is clear and unambiguous. The decision to form it is aimed at violently changing the borders of our country and violating the position of our southern province established by the Constitution and international acts. All this, in conditions where precisely because of the attempts at a...