The reaction came a day after the Zionist regime and Kosovo established diplomatic ties under a deal brokered by the United States, marking a ‘victory’ for Pristina’s efforts to gain full global recognition of the independence it declared in 2008 following a war with Serbia in the 1990s.
Serbian foreign minister Nikola Selakovic told public broadcaster RTS on Tuesday that his country was not happy over the decision by the Zionist regime.
In exchange for the Zionist regime’s recognition, Kosovo recognized al-Quds as the so-called capital of the occupying regime.
Zionist foreign minister Gabi Ashkenazi on Monday confirmed he had approved Kosovo’s "formal request to open an embassy” in the city.
Kosovo’s embassy plans drew criticism from Turkey, with Ankara saying the proposed move violated UN resolutions and international law.
"It is clear that any step towards this direction will not serve the Palestinian cause,” foreign ministry spokesperson Hami Aksoy said in a written statement on Monday.
The European Union also warned Kosovo that its intention for establishing an embassy in al-Quds hardly helps the country’s hopes of joining the 27-nation bloc, which opposes recognition of Tel Aviv’s claim to the holy occupied city.
"Kosovo has identified EU integration as its strategic priority. The EU expects Kosovo to act in line with this commitment so that its European perspective is not undermined,” a spokesman for the bloc said, according to online newspaper EUobserver.
The Arab League’s Secretary-General Ahmad Aboul Gheit also reacted to the prospect of inauguration of a Kosovan mission in al-Quds, saying any decision to open up an embassy in the city was illegal because the city was under occupation and, therefore, could not host any such diplomatic mission.
By setting up a mission in al-Quds, Kosovo will not only be endorsing the Israeli claim over the city, but will also have acted in complete disregard for the Palestinians’ age-old demand for the city’s eastern sector to be the capital of their future state.
Al-Quds remains at the heart of the decades-long Zionist-Palestinian conflict, with the Palestinian Authority (PA) insisting that East al-Quds – illegally occupied by the Zionist regime since 1967 – should serve as the capital of a Palestinian state.
There is a global consensus against recognizing al-Quds as the occupying regime’s ‘capital’ until the Palestinian conflict is resolved.
In another development, Mauritanian clerics announced a religious ban on normalization of relations with the Zionist regime.
Some 200 clerics and scholars in Mauritania declared normalization of diplomatic relations with the regime is religiously forbidden.
"Normalization equals full support for usurping Zionists, and their siege, massacre and destruction. It has nothing to do with peace and reconciliation at all,” the clergymen said in a fatwa (religious decree) issued at the end of a symposium held at al-Tawfiq Mosque in the capital Nouakchott on Sunday evening, Lebanon’s Arabic-language al-Mayadeen television news network reported.
The religious scholars also called on the Mauritanian government to maintain its previously declared position that it does not intend to normalize ties with the regime.
Among the most prominent signatories is Sheikh Muhammad al-Hasan bin al-Diddu al-Shanqiti, who is the head of the northwest African country’s Center for the Development of Scholars.
Last month, Mauritania’s largest opposition political party announced it was intending to submit a bill to the parliament seeking to criminalize normalization and establishment of diplomatic relations with the regime.
Mauritania fully severed diplomatic ties with the occupying regime in March 2010.
The northwest African country had expelled Zionist representatives and closed the regime’s embassy in Nouakchott a year earlier. The move came after it froze ties in response to the regime’s attacks on the Gaza Strip.
Serbian foreign minister Nikola Selakovic told public broadcaster RTS on Tuesday that his country was not happy over the decision by the Zionist regime.
In exchange for the Zionist regime’s recognition, Kosovo recognized al-Quds as the so-called capital of the occupying regime.
Zionist foreign minister Gabi Ashkenazi on Monday confirmed he had approved Kosovo’s "formal request to open an embassy” in the city.
Kosovo’s embassy plans drew criticism from Turkey, with Ankara saying the proposed move violated UN resolutions and international law.
"It is clear that any step towards this direction will not serve the Palestinian cause,” foreign ministry spokesperson Hami Aksoy said in a written statement on Monday.
The European Union also warned Kosovo that its intention for establishing an embassy in al-Quds hardly helps the country’s hopes of joining the 27-nation bloc, which opposes recognition of Tel Aviv’s claim to the holy occupied city.
"Kosovo has identified EU integration as its strategic priority. The EU expects Kosovo to act in line with this commitment so that its European perspective is not undermined,” a spokesman for the bloc said, according to online newspaper EUobserver.
The Arab League’s Secretary-General Ahmad Aboul Gheit also reacted to the prospect of inauguration of a Kosovan mission in al-Quds, saying any decision to open up an embassy in the city was illegal because the city was under occupation and, therefore, could not host any such diplomatic mission.
By setting up a mission in al-Quds, Kosovo will not only be endorsing the Israeli claim over the city, but will also have acted in complete disregard for the Palestinians’ age-old demand for the city’s eastern sector to be the capital of their future state.
Al-Quds remains at the heart of the decades-long Zionist-Palestinian conflict, with the Palestinian Authority (PA) insisting that East al-Quds – illegally occupied by the Zionist regime since 1967 – should serve as the capital of a Palestinian state.
There is a global consensus against recognizing al-Quds as the occupying regime’s ‘capital’ until the Palestinian conflict is resolved.
In another development, Mauritanian clerics announced a religious ban on normalization of relations with the Zionist regime.
Some 200 clerics and scholars in Mauritania declared normalization of diplomatic relations with the regime is religiously forbidden.
"Normalization equals full support for usurping Zionists, and their siege, massacre and destruction. It has nothing to do with peace and reconciliation at all,” the clergymen said in a fatwa (religious decree) issued at the end of a symposium held at al-Tawfiq Mosque in the capital Nouakchott on Sunday evening, Lebanon’s Arabic-language al-Mayadeen television news network reported.
The religious scholars also called on the Mauritanian government to maintain its previously declared position that it does not intend to normalize ties with the regime.
Among the most prominent signatories is Sheikh Muhammad al-Hasan bin al-Diddu al-Shanqiti, who is the head of the northwest African country’s Center for the Development of Scholars.
Last month, Mauritania’s largest opposition political party announced it was intending to submit a bill to the parliament seeking to criminalize normalization and establishment of diplomatic relations with the regime.
Mauritania fully severed diplomatic ties with the occupying regime in March 2010.
The northwest African country had expelled Zionist representatives and closed the regime’s embassy in Nouakchott a year earlier. The move came after it froze ties in response to the regime’s attacks on the Gaza Strip.
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