Belgrade: Pristina should not be allowed to block UN agreement
Serbian Foreign Minister Vuk Jeremic on Thursday called on Europe's officials to oppose Pristina's efforts to block the agreement on the restructuring of international presence in Kosovo reached by Belgrade and the United Nations
(KosovoCompromise Staff) Friday, November 14, 2008
"After months of hard talks, the agreement between Serbia and the UN on a number of issues of crucial importance for the survival of the Serbian people in Kosovo was reached," Jeremic said in his lecture at Charles University in Prague on Thursday.
The agreement, which was supposed to legalize the Eulex mission, was explicitly backed by all member states of the UN concerned about the issue of the future status of Kosovo, Jeremic said.
Eulex needed the approval of the UN Security Council to be status neutral, to be deployed under the UN jurisdiction and in keeping with UN SC Resolution 1244.
However, after Serbia and the UN reached the agreement on the role of the EU mission in Kosovo and after seeing it as a major blow to their secessionist ambitions, the authorities of the Kosovo Albanians renewed their threats with violence and terrorization, said Jeremic.
"Instead of saying that such barbarian threats would no longer be tolerated, a session of the UN Security Council was cancelled and a report by the UN Secretary-General was not publicized," said Jeremic.
According to him, now is the moment the EU should finally stand up and say to the extremists in Pristina that their rejection of laws would not be tolerated and that their threats would not be accepted.
Jeremic evaluated that decisions to be made in the next several days will be decisive.
