(ANSA - BELGRADE, JUL 14 - Serbia's Minister of State Administration and Local Self-Government, Snežana Paunović, has made a shocking statement: "If I were Slobodan Milošević, I would have committed ethnic cleansing in Kosovo in 1998." "If I were Slobodan Milošević, I would have ethnically cleansed Kosovo in 1998. Paunović, a native of Peja (Peć in Serbian) in Kosovo and leader of the socialist SPS party, an ally of Vučić's SNS, said in an interview broadcast Sunday by the pro-government Kurir TV that it was the harshest statement he had ever made. The minister went on to say that she would not "eliminate the Albanians in the way ethnic cleansing is being attempted in Kosovo to this day," but rather that anyone who feels less like a resident of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia leaves and returns to their country of origin. (ANSA.