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territorial integrity and inviolability of the borders of Kosovo in
the same way the report of the Badinter Commission guaranteed
the inviolability of the republican borders.” 389 He believed that the
Milošević-Holbrooke agreement would wrest Kosovo from the legal
systems of Serbia and the fry and pave the way for Kosovo’s secession.
390 Koštunica doubted that Hill was the true representative of
the Contact Group “because at least one of its members—say Russia—would
hardly go along with this u.s. initiative.” 391 Koštunica
insisted that the conditions for the start of negotiations on Kosovo
were not in place in spite of Serbian president Milan Milutinović’s
assurances to the contrary because “Hill’s plan would facilitate the
break-up of the fry and smacks of the Dayton Accords … But unlike
Dayton, which preserved the integrity of Bosnia-Herzegovina, the
constitution being put forward for Kosovo would invest it with elements
of separate statehood and make it much more than a federal
unit.” 392 Koštunica said that the Serbian government would have to
proceed from the crux of the problem in Kosovo, that is, from the
Serb-Albanian conflict caused by malignant Albanian nationalism
and megalomaniacal Albanian demands backed abroad, rather than
treat the conflict as an innocuous dispute involving all ethnic communities
in Kosovo. 393
Vuk Obradović, the president of Social Democracy, said that the
loss of control of Yugoslav airspace laid out in the Milošević-Holbrooke
agreement caused enormous damage to the country’s
defense capability and that the betrayal of the Serbian people could
be the prelude to a new battle for Kosovo. 394 The weekly Vojska
accused nato of being in collusion with Albanian terrorists and of
389 Glas javnosti, November 7–8, 1998
390 Vecernje novosti, November 7, 1998 .
391 Blic, November 10, 1998 .
392 Blic, November 17, 1998 .
393 Danas, November 24, 1998 .
394 Parlament, November 6, 1998 .