Foreign Minister Vuk Jeremic has evaluated that there is a growing anxiety within the provisional self-government institutions in Pristina regarding the outcome of the proceedings before the International Court of Justice (ICJ) in The Hague.

In a situation like this, it is most important that the Serbian representatives maintain their calm and do not respond hastily to provocation attempts no matter how painful they were, Minister Jeremic said in an interview published by Politika, warning that there will be other cases such as arrests and mistreatment of some high-ranking state officials of Serbia who arrive in Kosovo and Metohija.

What we may do in the diplomatic sense is to file a sharp protest with relevant international forums every time (UN Security Council) Resolution 1244 is violated and every time basic civilization values, such as the right to freedom of movement, are jeopardized," said Jeremic.

Jeremic said that after one such Serbia's sharp intervention in the UN Security Council in New York last Friday on the occasion of the announcement by International Civil Office (ICO) head Peter Feith regarding plans for Kosovo and Metohija's integration, the European Union officially stated at a meeting in Brussels that the EU was not behind those "plans."

Minister Jeremic believes that after such an explicit statement by the EU there is no danger of the plan being implemented, because it is not backed by the international Kosovo Force (KFOR). Jeremic also said that the official Belgrade will also continue to cooperate closely with international organizations that operate in the province in keeping with the decision of the Security Council, but that "the International Civil Office is not one of them."

The minister further said that the authorities in Serbia expect that the ICJ's opinion will be such that it will create an obstacle on the road the provisional institutions in Kosovo had been taking so far, which is imposing the so-called new reality proclaimed on February 17, 2008.