Bujanovac, December 16 (Tanjug) - The Yugoslav and Serbian governments held a joint session in Bujanovac today and adopted a declaration on the principles of protecting Yugoslav state and national interests occasioned by the escalation of ethnic Albanian terrorism in Kosovo and Metohija and the ground security zone. The session was attended by Yugoslav President Vojislav Kostunica.

The two governments assessed that ethnic Albanian terrorists' armed actions in the ground security zone represented an impermissible escalation of violence and violation of the Yugoslav territorial integrity and sovereignty, peace and safety of citizens.

It was stressed at the session that every state had the right and duty to protect its territorial integrity and sovereignty and use all means available in order to protect its citizens and territory from terrorism and terrorist organizations.

The documents calls on Federal Parliament to condemn ethnic Albanian armed terrorist raids on the buffer zone and the area of Bujanovac, Presevo and Medvedja municipalities, as deliberate and continued threats and violations of Yugoslav territorial integrity and sovereignty in flagrant violation of U.N. Resolution 1244.

It was assessed that the international forces (KFOR) and the U.N. Civil Mission in Kosovo and Metohija (UNMIK) were directly responsible for ethnic Albanian terrorist raids.

KFOR and UNMIK failed to provide personal and property safety, the realization of human rights and liberties of all people in Kosovo and Metohija, and to disarm ethnic Albanian terrorist organization, the so-called KLA and other armed ethnic Albanian terrorist formations.

The two governments upheld the state agencies' efforts to deal with the problem by applying diplomatic methods and fully supported the members of the Yugoslav army and the Serbian Interior Ministry in the responsible discharge of their job of protecting the people and vital interests of Yugoslavia.

The document requires that the U.N. Security Council set a deadline by which ethnic Albanian terrorists must withdraw. Otherwise, Yugoslavia will invoke its legal and legitimate right to deal with the problem on its own, by applying all internationally approved measures for combating terrorism, which it is also its duty.

UNMIK and KFOR should provide for safe and unhampered work of the Yugoslav governmental committee in Kosovo and Metohija, the document says, demanding the implementation of the U.N. Security Council Resolution 1244 providing for redeploying Yugoslav army and Serbian police to that southern Serbian province.

Never and under no conditions will the FRY allow a part of its territory to be taken away, which is in accordance with the principles of the UN Charter on the respecting of territorial integrity and sovereignty of states.

It was stressed that Serbs, Montenegrins and the members of other ethnic and national communities were still extremely exposed to the activities of ethnic Albanian terrorists and separatists. For this reason it is necessary that KFOR and UNMIK guarantee personal and property safety and complete realization of human rights and liberties.

Federal Prime Minister Zoran Zizic explained that the two governments took that step after the Yugoslav Parliament session which clearly showed that the deputies agreed regarding the demand that the state agencies set a bottom limit in protecting national interests under which neither the state, nor the deputies could go.

For this reason the two governments adopted recommendation that the Declaration be proposed for adoption in the Federal Assembly, which confirms that the issue here is "a state issue par excellence".

When the Federal Parliament adopts the Declaration, it will submit it to the UN Security Council, OSCE, the Council of Europe, European Parliament and the Security Council permanent members.