Defence Minister Dragan Sutanovac said on Thursday that if Kosovo province declares its independence, Serbia won’t intervene military.

He told reporters: "Serbia does not see KFOR (the NATO force in Kosovo) as the enemy. Any military action now would look like the one in 1999,” Reuters reports.

In 1999 NATO bombed Serbia in order to throw out Serb forces which were accused for the deaths of thousands of civilians in Kosovo during the battles with ethnic Albanian separatists there.

After eight years as a UN protectorate, the 90 percent Albanian majority of the province asks for independence. However, Serbia said that it will only offer its autonomy.

On Wednesday the final talks regarding Kosovo’s future ended without reaching any compromise.

According to the Albanian leaders, the province will soon declare its independence.

The two sides were asked by the West and Russia to try to prevent any irruption of violence.

Sutanovac expressed his opinion about the 16,000 NATO soldiers in Kosovo saying that they “would intervene and stop the destabilization of Kosovo which could lead to the destabilization of the entire Balkans."

He dismissed the previous declarations of unauthorized people who were saying that if Kosovo declares independence "Belgrade would do everything short of sending tanks.”

He said that this kind of declarations is only causing "unacceptable chaos.”

He expressed his opinions at a presentation detailing Serbia's progress in NATO's Partnership for Peace agreement.

Sutanovac said that it was too early to say if Serbia would join the alliance or only cooperate.

He said: "Nobody (at NATO) has called us and we're not ready. We need to focus on the 'PfP'.”