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WASHINGTON, July 12 (UPI) -- Serbia's premier told U.S. officials Wednesday the mainly ethnic-Albanian Kosovo province's independence is unacceptable to the Belgrade government.
Referring to talks with U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, Prime Minister Vojislav Kostunica told reporters he reiterated his stand that Serbia cannot accept an independent Kosovo, Belgrade's private B92 radio-television reported.
"Independence of Kosovo would take the region into serious instability. Snatching away from a state 15 percent of its territory is possible only if democracy is crushed under one's feet," Kostunica told reporters in Washington.
Kostunica has offered a large degree of autonomy for Kosovo, while ethnic-Albanians, who make up 90 percent of the Serbian province's 1.8 million population, demand independence from Belgrade.
U.N.-led talks are under way between Belgrade's Serbian officials and the Kosovo ethnic-Albanian leaders to decide who will govern the province once the U.N. administration and NATO troops, deployed to contain ethnic conflicts since 1999, leave.
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