TRAIAN BASESCU SAYS NO

Romanian President Traian Basescu said that the Romanian diplomacy has the obligation to support not necessarily Serbia, but the international law principles.

BUCHAREST, Sept. 3 (Xinhua) -- Romania's stance remains unchanged as regards Kosovo file, namely the backing of Serbia, a sovereign and independent state's territorial integrity, Romanian President Traian Basescu said on Monday.Basescu made the remarks when meeting with Romanian ambassadors present in Bucharest on the occasion of the diplomacy's annual meeting."This autumn, we might be confronted with the difficult moment of an eventual solution linked to Kosovo. Our stance is not an intransigent one, but remains unchanged, that Serbia is an independent, sovereign state, whose territorial integrity cannot be affected," said the president.Basescu added that the Romanian diplomacy has the obligation to support not necessarily Serbia, but the international law principles."There is no legal fundament for the creation of a Kosovo state. One invokes the moral right of the Albanians, but there is no moral right in the international law, just the guarantee of borders' inviolability. Nobody could easily trespass the international law norms," underlined President Basescu.Legally still part of the Serbian Republic, Kosovo has been run by the United Nations since mid-1999 as a protectorate. Kosovo's future status has been a bitter subject between Belgrade and Kosovo's Albanian majority who are pushing for independence.The UN special envoy Martti Ahtisaari presented last March his proposals which would grant supervised independence to Kosovo. The plan was backed by the U.S. and many of the western countries, but was vehemently opposed by Serbia and its veto-power ally Russia.According to analysts, Romania opposes an independent Kosovo, partly because of the fear that the move will set off a chain reaction in the country's central and northwest region of Transylvania inhabited by Hungarians.