Foreign Minister Vuk Jeremic called on the US Secretary General to carefully investigate into the case of storming court building in the town of Mitrovica. Begun on Monday by UN police and NATO servicemen as an action against a group of lawyers protesting against their illegal dismissal it grew into fierce clashes with Serb population.
In conditions of Kosovo split on ethnic ground international forces should show much restraint and unbiased attitude. This did not happen. Therefore the use of force has been seen as a demonstration of readiness to write an end to any forms of Serbs’ discontent and also as open support to Albanian separatists who unilaterally proclaimed independence in Kosovo.
Unfortunately, UN and NATO missions in Kosovo demonstrate a biased attitude. They do not fulfill in full their duties. The US Security Council mandate stipulates not only ensuring security in the region but also inadmissibility of any unilateral moves, such as proclamation of independence. Yet international forces have done nothing to prevent this. They, however, directed their wrath against Serb lawyers who dared to defend their rights. The Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov believes that Serbs’ protest in Kosovo is just. Here is what he says.
To force all those who do not want to live in illegally proclaimed state to put up with the situation is not an easy task. And the fact that for many years since 1999 the rights of minorities, primarily Serbs, were not ensured, their security was disregarded and their freedom of movement was violated in Kosovo, certainly, allows a sad conclusion that in conditions of Kosovo’s independence those minorities will feel themselves strangers in their own country.
Biased attitude of UN and NATO missions further aggravate the tense situation in the region. And consequences of this are unpredictable.
Serbia urges UN to discuss situation in Kosovo
/PanARMENIAN.Net/ Russian UN ambassador Vitaly Churkin has received a letter from Serbia’s Foreign Minister Vuk Jeremic.
In the letter, Jeremic urges Security Council members to discuss the situation in Kosovo following the excessive use of force by UN peacekeepers and KFOR against Serbs in the town of Kosovska Mitrovica as early as possible. “The UN mission’s mistake may end in uncontrollable developments in the region,” he said.
The spokesman for Russia’s UN mission said the Jeremic’s letter had already circulated among members of the Council.
Mr Jeremic has also addressed a letter to UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon to protest “the absolutely unacceptable and excessive use of force by international troops in Kosovska Mitrovica on Monday.”
“Dispersal of rioting Serbs questions the UN mission’s good intentions,” he said, RIA Novosti reports.
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