SERBIA GIVES ULTIMATUM TO EU.

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The EU "must choose [...] whether it will sign a Stabilisation and Association Agreement [SAA] with Serbia or [...] send a mission to implement [a plan for] supervised independence of Kosovo," Serbia's Prime Minister Vojislav Kostunica said in a written statement issued on 3 January. The EU "cannot at the same time break up Serbia and sign the SAA with Serbia," concluded Kostunica. This is the first time that Belgrade has made a direct link between the EU's plan to take over responsibility for administering Kosovo from the UN agreed by EU leaders at the European Council on 14 December and the signing of an SAA with Serbia, the gateway towards EU membership. Kostunica's...