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Serbia: 74% of citizens don't want to fight for Kosovo

Younger people more likely to justify armed action

15 February, 15:45
(ANSA) - TRIESTE, 14 FEB - Three-quarters of Serbian citizens do not want to wage war to win Kosovo back, suggested a survey which also indicated that the majority support continued dialogue with Pristina, The Balkan Insight said. The survey published by the Belgrade Centre for Security Policy suggests that 74% of Serbian citizens do not want to wage war to ensure that Kosovo is a part of Serbia. The survey revealed that 65% of respondents had never been in Kosovo and 80% had never met a Kosovo Albanian. The survey also suggested that the majority of Serbians support the continuation of the Eu-mediated Belgrade-Pristina dialogue aimed at normalising relations. Only 8% said they were in favour of the independence of Kosovo. The director of the Centre Sonja Stojanovic Gajic underlined that younger people were more likely to agree that military action was justified: "The 'yes' answer is more frequent from those who were not in the war in the 1990s. So people who are younger than 40 are frequently in the group of those who justify armed action". More than half of the respondents said meanwhile that they believe that the country's national security is under threat and that major global powers - the Us, Eu, Nato and Russia, as well as terrorism - as the key external threats. (ANSA).

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