Tadic manipulates African Union members while asking for their support

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Sharm El Sheikh - During a summit of the African Union, on Monday, Serbian President, Boris Tadic, deliberately lied the Union on the international role of Serbia in an effort to convince all its members to back a resolution which Serbia would present to the UN General Assembly in September and which would require an advisory opinion on the legality of Kosovo's declaration of independence.

Tadic thanked the African states which have not yet recognized Kosovo's independence and that in refusing to do so, according to Tadic, had proved their commitment to the principles of international law.

During the summit, President Tadic deliberately called Serbia a successor of the Socalist Federative Republic of Yugoslavia (SFRY) while misusing the "good relations" of the SFRY with the African states, thus lying openly in front of the African Union while fully knowing that Serbia has never been a successor of SFRY, and that exactly because of this fact, Serbia was forced after October 2000, following the fall of Milosevic's regime, to apply for membership in the UN as a new state.

The UN, including its Security Council, where Serbia's ally, Russia, also adheres as a permanent member, has never accepted Serbia as a successor of Yugoslavia. And while Serbia was accepted in the UN after October 2000, it was never given the chair of the ex-SFRY.

Serbia has been defined in international documents as a new state that came out of the SFRY, as did Slovenia, Croatia, Bosnia & Herzegovina and Macedonia, while all applied as new states in the UN. The same procedure was followed by these countries for the entrance in other international organizations e.g. OSCE, Council of Europe, IMF, etc. where Serbia too applied and was accepted as a new country while inheriting no former chair of the SFRY.

Serbia has never been accepted as a successor of the SFRY by no other ex-SFRY republics coming out of the federation as new countries. No country has ever had the legal right to define and call itself as a successor of the SFRY.

President Tadic, during this inconsistency towards an international audience, also forgot the fact that his predecessor, the first post-Milosevic era president, Vojislav Kostunica, in his first declaration as president on 6 October 2000, declared that the first thing the new democratic government accepted, was the fact that Serbia was not a successor of the SFRY.

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