Serbian parliament passes declaration on rights and joint future of Serbs

BELGRADE - Serbian MPs adopted on Wednesday a Declaration on Protection of the National and Political Rights and the Joint Future of the Serbs.

One hundred and thirty-nine MPs voted for the declaration, nine voted against, there were no abstentions and six MPs took no part in the vote.

At a June 8 All-Serbian Assembly in Belgrade, the governments of Serbia and Republika Srpska adopted a draft of the Declaration.

The Declaration notes that the Serbian nation represents a single whole and that Kosovo-Metohija is an unalienable part of the Republic of Serbia - one of the defining aspects of the Serbs' national identity - and that the Assembly does not support a UNGA resolution on Srebrenica.

The Declaration contains 49 conclusions, stances and objectives coordinated by the All-Serbian Assembly of Serbia and Srpska in good faith and with a view to...