President Boris Tadic told Scheffer that Serbia was determined to preserve its sovereignty and territorial integrity through peaceful, diplomatic and legal means, and asked that the Kosovo Force (KFOR) peacekeepers provide for the full protection of the Serbs in Kosovo, regardless of how the process of defining Kosovo's status would go, Tadic's office said in a statement.
Prime Minister Vojislav Kostunica told Scheffer that Serbia had strongly rejected the latest draft resolution on Kosovo as it was an introduction to the creation of a new Albanian state on 15 per cent of Serbian territory, which could be very dangerous for peace and stability in the Balkans, the government said in a statement.
The PM also said that the new UN Security Council resolution should be the result of agreement between the two sides, and that Serbia was ready to immediately start new negotiations that would lead to a compromise solution in keeping with the UN Charter and the Serbian Constitution.
Scheffer also met Serbian Defence Minister Dragan Sutanovac, who said the definition of Kosovo's status was not a military, but a political and legal issue, and underlined the importance of good cooperation between KFOR and the Serbian Defence Ministry, the ministry said in a statement.