The NATO bombing of Serbia aimed to create the first NATO state in the world on the territory of Kosovo, Serbia's PM Vojislav Kostunica said in a statement addressing the ninth anniversary of the attacks of the Alliance against the country.

"The illegal construction of a huge American military base Bondsteel and Annex 11 of the Ahtisaari plan, which establishes NATO as the supreme organ of government in Kosovo, reveal the reason why Serbia was mindlessly destroyed, and why a NATO state was declared illegally on February 17," the statement sent to Beta news agency reads.

The outgoing prime minister added Serbia is a free country, and its message to the world can only be that "Kosovo is Serbia."

"The policy of force that is used against Serbia is blind and won't last, and just as every other force that came to the Balkans, this one will leave too. The majority of mankind have not recognized the first NATO state, and instead recognize Serbia in its true and internationally recognized borders," Kostunica concluded.

The bombing campaign in 1999, officially against then Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, was conducted by 19 armies of the NATO member states.

The attacks lasted for 11 weeks, killing about 1,002 members of then Yugoslav Army along with around 2,500 civilians, including 89 children. Nearly 10,000 people were wounded.

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