Syria refuses to recognize Kosovo independence
Syria urges a political solution for the Balkans, and Damascus does not recognize Kosovo as an independence state, Syrian Amabssador to Serbia Majed Shadoud said on Wednesday.
(KosovoCompromise Staff) Thursday, May 14, 2009
Syrian President Bashar al-Assad told Serbian Foreign Minister Vuk Jeremic on Monday that his country continues to oppose the recognition of the independence of Kosovo, as it did from the very beginning, Shadoud stated.
Syria urges a political solution for the situation in the Balkans and the Middle East and is opposed to any kind of divisions in both regions, regardless of whether religious, ethnic or nationalist reasons are in question," the Syrian ambassador quoted Al-Assad as telling Jeremic during their meeting in Damascus.
Serbian news agency Tanjug learned in the Serbian Foreign Ministry that Jeremic and the Syrian officials discussed that country's support for the summit of the Organization of Islamic Conference, currently chaired by Syria, to prevent the adoption of a resolution in which Saudi Arabia plans to call on the Islamic countries to recognize the independence of Kosovo.
The summit will be held from May 23 - 25 in Damascus.
