Drecun: Support for so-called Kosovo aimed at getting it into NATO

BELGRADE - Serbian MP Milovan Drecun said on Tuesday an announced Council of Europe (CoE) debate on the so-called Kosovo's admission to the organisation and Monday's UN Security Council vote that had not backed a Russia-proposed discussion on the 25th anniversary of the 1999 NATO aggression on the then Federal Republic of Yugoslavia represented support for the false state of "Kosovo" that was aimed at launching the process of it joining NATO.

"That would probably be the end of the story as far as they are concerned because, if you are in NATO, then Article 5 is invoked if needed, which is a message to Serbia that it (Kosovo-Metohija) is a forever-lost territory for us and that we cannot count on it becoming a part of our state again one day," Drecun told Pink TV.

He added that NATO's position was that, since the so-called Kosovo was not internationally recognised, there was no discussion at all about it joining the Partnership for Peace programme, but that the leading NATO member state seemed to have other plans.

"The US is openly saying it will do everything in its power to back NATO membership for 'Kosovo' because, as its (the US') representatives say, it believes that would help regional stability and security," Drecun said, noting that US special Western Balkans envoy Gabriel Escobar had said Washington fully supported Pristina's aspirations to join NATO, the UN and the EU.