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BELGRADE -- The Yugoslav government said on Thursday that Monday's accord between U.N. envoys and ethnic Albanian terrorists in Kosovo-Metohija on setting up a "Kosovo Protection Corps" grossly violated U.N. Resolution 1244.
The accord turning the KLA into the "Kosovo Protection Corps" was signed in Pristina by the international force (KFor) and the U.N. civilian mission (UNMIK), on the one hand, and the ethnic Albanian terrorist Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA), on the other.
The government expressed deep concern at the accord, describing it as unlawful and as an "attempt to give legal standing to a terrorist organisation, to salvage it and protect the terrorists, which can have incalculable consequences."
The government noted that the terrorist KLA has been neither disarmed nor demilitarised.
"This is well-known to those well-versed in the situation, and best to those who have just announced that the demilitarisation has been successfully completed and who have signed this shameful accord.
"They are directly responsible for the violence, terrorism and each and every victim of the terrorists," the government said in its statement released from a session chaired by Prime Minister Momir Bulatovic.
"The Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, as a free and sovereign country, will never recognise any kind of behaviour or any decision that runs counter to Resolution 1244, the Chernomyrdin-Ahtisaari plan and the guarantees of the country's sovereignty.
"This arrogant and unlawful decision by KFor and UNMIK is a major step in the direction of attaining ethnic Albanian separatist goals in Kosovo-Metohija, and as such is totally unacceptable to the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia," the statement said.