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Serbia charges Kosovo’s leaders Serbia filed legal charges against Kosovo’s leadership Monday for creating a "false state" and vowed to block the nascent nation’s attempts to join the international community in a fierce response to the declaration of independence, APA reports The Interior Ministry said Kosovo President Fatmir Sejdiu, Prime Minister Hashim Thaci and Speaker Jakup Krasniqi had been charged with committing "a serious criminal act against the constitutional order and security of Serbia" following Sunday’s declaration by Kosovo’s Albanian-dominated parliament. “Territory of country is indivisible and a part of country territory can be separated after amendments to Constitution,” Foreign Ministry’s statement said. Albanian leaders:

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independence yesterday, and will form its position in the future, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs yesterday stated in a laconic announcement on the predominantly Muslim region’s secession from Serbia earlier in the day.

Officials in Jerusalem have expressed reservations about recognizing Kosovo as Advertisement

an independent state, citing the fact that the secession is unilateral. Advertisement

Several Israeli diplomats said recognizing the declaration could have implications on the Palestinian issue.

“The Government of Serbia considers this decision, made outside the auspices of the United Nations Security Council, illegal,” Serbian Deputy Prime Minister Bozidar Djelic said in a statement on the declaration of independence.

Serbia’s leaders pledged peaceful resistance after Kosovo’s declaration, but some 2,000 angry protesters gathered at the United States Embassy in Belgrade to vent their anger at the American backing for the breakaway province. “Kosovo is the heart of Serbia,” many chanted.