SERB PARTY WARNS KOSOVO INDEPENDENCE LEADS TO BREAK-UP OF BOSNIA
BBC Monitoring International Reports - May 28, 2006, Sunday

Text of report by Bosnian Serb news agency SRNA

Banja Luka, 27 May: The chairman of the Democratic Party of the [Bosnian] Serb Republic [DSS], Predrag Kovacevic, has told SRNA that his party will call for an independence referendum if Kosovo is granted independence.

"Albanians are an ethnic minority in Serbia, not a constituent nation, and they are moving towards independence. Serbs are a constituent nation in Bosnia-Hercegovina and they have a right to such a referendum in line with the Serb Republic Constitution," Kovacevic said.

Source: SRNA news agency, Bijeljina, in Bosnian/Croatian/Serbian 1308 gmt 27 May 06

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