12.01.2023, Moscow.
The Russian Foreign Ministry recommends the UN Secretariat to pay attention to the refusal to introduce a police and army contingent to Kosovo at Serbia’s request under the UN Security Council resolution, Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova told reporters on January 12.
According to her, the UN secretariat, which has been active in the situation around Ukraine, is not calling on the relevant forces to implement Resolution 1244. “Why doesn’t the UN secretariat want to support Belgrade’s request for this particular resolution to send Serbian military and police to the region? It’s a document available for everyone, we just need to draw attention to it,” she said during the briefing.
Earlier, Prime Minister of the self-proclaimed republic of Kosovo Albin Kurti handed over Pristina’s application to join the European Union. In response, the Serbian Defense Ministry, in accordance with UN Security Council Resolution 1244, sent a request to the NATO command of the Kosovo Force mission for a limited contingent of up to 1,000 Serb police and military personnel to be deployed in Kosovo and Metohija. The situation in Kosovo and Metohija is tense at the moment. A number of EU countries – Spain, Greece, Cyprus, Slovakia and Romania – do not recognize Kosovo.
Resolution 1244 was adopted by the UN Security Council in June 1999 following the results of the three-month NATO bombardment of Yugoslavia. The document authorized the international civil and military presence in the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia and also agreed on launching the UN Interim Administration Mission in Kosovo. Paragraph 4 of the resolution stated that “an agreed number of Yugoslav and Serbian military personnel are allowed to return to Kosovo to perform their functions.”
Source: Rossa Primavera News Agency
