Leader of the Democratic Party of Serbia (DSS) Vojislav Kostunica stated on Monday that any referendum at which citizens would be required to choose between the EU and Kosovo would be counter-Constitutional, illegitimate and illegal.

Citizens cannot be asked to state their mind on the handover of Kosovo at a referendum, Kostunica said in a release for the media and added that anyone who wishes to hand Kosovo over to Albanians would need to change the Constitution first, instead of calling an illegal referendum on the choice between the EU and Kosovo.

He said that Brussels presented Serbia with the choice between Kosovo and the EU as far back as 2008, when a majority of EU members recognised Kosovo's illegally declared independence, and recalled that this is the reason why the government was dissolved the very same year.

The DSS leader believes that Serbia has been following a path that has no alternative for three years now and that the incumbent government insists on the policy according to which the EU is the country's top priority, instead of defence of territorial integrity.

Kostunica believes this policy to be seriously dangerous for Serbia's national interests.

He expressed belief that the best policy is the one that derives from and is in keeping with the Serbian Constitution, and the Constitution explicitly states that Kosovo is an integral and unalienable part of Serbia. This is the reason why calling a referendum where people would need to choose between Kosovo and the EU would be counter-Constitutional, illegitimate and illegal, Kostunica underscored.