(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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