"Regardless of that legality, however, nationalist Serbs in neighboring Bosnia see Montenegro as an encouragement to push their own campaign for an independence referendum for Republika Srpska, one of Bosnia's two constituent parts. The demand was firmly rejected on Monday by Western officials, who warned the major powers would not tolerate any threat to Bosnia's sovereignty and integrity as a state." The message being: Everyone can cecede from Serb lands, but Serbs can cecede from no artificially created "country" -- in spite of the fact that Serbs were always the single largest minority in all of old Yugoslavia.