GENEVA (Xinhua) -- Serbian Foreign Minister Vuk Jeremic stressed here on Monday that his country will never recognize Kosovo as an independent country.

""We will employ all diplomatic and political means at our disposal to hinder, obstruct and ultimately reverse the unilateral, illegal and illegitimate declaration of independence of our southern province,"" Jeremic told a regular session of the UN Human Rights Council.
He added that this was not temporary policy, but part of a national strategy to keep Serbia whole and free, and fully integrated into Europe.
Jeremic also condemned those countries that recognized Kosovo's ""illegal and illegitimate declaration of independence.""
Hundreds of Serb police in Kosovo vowed on Friday not to follow the orders of the Albanian-dominated force after the territory split from Serbia.
The Kosovo Serb officers are demanding they report to the United Nations police force, rather than the Kosovo Police Service (KPS) command in the capital Pristina.
Around 100 officers in the eastern Gnjilane region were suspended on full pay indefinitely, a police spokesman said.
Backed by Russia, Serbia and the 120,000 remaining Serbs in Kosovo have rejected the declaration of independence by the 90-percent ethnic Albanian majority, which has been recognized by the major Western powers.
Kosovo became a de facto UN protectorate in 1999, after NATO bombed to drive out Serb forces and halt the killing and ethnic cleansing of Albanians in a two-year war against rebels.
As three more European nations recognized Kosovo's independence from Serbia, Foreign Minister fired off a letter to UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon about the formation of the International Steering Group.
The parliament of Kosovo declared independence on February 17.
It has since been recognized by the United States and leading nations in the European Union, including Britain, France and Germany. Among those opposed are Cyprus, Romania and Spain.
The latest countries to recognize Kosovo on Friday were Iceland, Ireland and Finland, one of the 15 members of the International Steering Group.