THE UNITED NATIONS AND KOSOVO
Feb 15th, 2008 by admin
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According to reports there seems to have been no breakthrough at yesterdays meeting. United Nations Security Council president Panamanian ambassador Ricardo Alberto Arias spoke on what was achieved at the meeting.
I think the meeting achieved concrete matters. The important point at the meeting was the expression of the different positions in a clear and precise manner. Serbia’s position was very important.
IS THIS THE END OF UNITED NATIONS PARTICIPATION IN THE KOSOVO ISSUE?
It is very difficult to foretell.
IN A LETTER SENT TO YOU BY SERBIA’S UN AMBASSADOR PAVLE JEVREMOVIC ,HE SAYS THAT A UDI BY KOSOVO’S ETHNIC ALBANIAN LEADERS WOULD CONSTITUTE A VIOLATION OF A 1999 U.N RESOLUTION PROVIDING FOR KOSOVO TO BE ADMINISTERED BY THE U.N. AND NATO TROOPS AND SERBIA’S TERRIORIAL INTEGRITY -IS THIS THE CASE?
That has been argued by the serbians and by the Russians amongst others but if you ask me the legal interpretation at this point, thatanswer, honestly has to be given at another level, different from mine. Though, it is an argument that has been constantly made. The preferred option is for Panama to continue negotiations. We dont feel that negotiations have been substantive enough. We don’t feel that converstaions held so far were real negotiations with parties who were included to reach agreements. They were basically dialogues and we will hope and expect that negotiations would continue and some undertstanding and settlement is reached among the parties.
IS THERE A CONCERN THAT THERE COULD BE VIOLENCE IN KOSOVO?
Nothing at this point indicates that. Nobody has mentioned that possibility, but the concern is there.
RUSSIA’S U.N. AMBASSADOR VITALY CHURKIN HAS BACKED THE SERB REQUEST FOR THE COUNCIL TO CONSIDER “THE DANGEROUS DEVELOPMENTS’. – WHAT ARE THE POSSIBLE DANGEROUS DEVELOPMENTS?
This will result in instability and conflict in the region, between Serbs and Albanians, Kosovo and Serbia, these are the obvious parts.