Serbia wants action against UNMIK official

Vuk Jeremic has called on the UN Security Council to discipline UNMIK Political Director Jolio Nagele. The reason that the foreign minister is asking for disciplinary measures to be taken is that Nagele allowed Kosovo Foreign Minister Skender Hyseni to speak at the South-East Europe Cooperation Process summit. Serbia wants action against UNMIK official Jeremic told B92 that Nagele had breached the summit’s rules of procedures and the instructions of the United Nations. “The UN’s explicit instructions were that UNMIK representatives had no right to allow officials from Pristina’s temporary institutions to take the floor,” the foreign minister stressed. He added that yesterday’s summit had been very important for Serbia, for the country to show its teeth, and use its full institutional capacity by vetoing the final declaration that was not in accordance with Serbia’s policy. “The language Serbia insisted on was the following—the countries of South-East Europe do not have a united position regarding the Kosovo problem. That means that Kosovo is not a South-East European country, we insisted on that, and that the countries of South-East Europe can have one view or another,” Jeremic said. He said that this was “simply the reality of the Kosovo question.” “The language we insisted on was telling in the end, because the declaration that was adopted at presidential level, after my veto at ministerial level, was an explicitly written international document stating that Kosovo was not a country. That is a diplomatic triumph,” Jeremic said.

Serbia wants action against UNMIK official

Jeremić told B92 that Nagele had breached the summit’s rules of procedures and the instructions of the United Nations.

“The UN’s explicit instructions were that UNMIK representatives had no right to allow officials from Priština’s temporary institutions to take the floor,” the foreign minister stressed.

He added that yesterday’s summit had been very important for Serbia, for the country to show its teeth, and use its full institutional capacity by vetoing the final declaration that was not in accordance with Serbia’s policy.

“The language Serbia insisted on was the following—the countries of South-East Europe do not have a united position regarding the Kosovo problem. That means that Kosovo is not a South-East European country, we insisted on that, and that the countries of South-East Europe can have one view or another,” Jeremić said.

He said that this was “simply the reality of the Kosovo question.”

“The language we insisted on was telling in the end, because the declaration that was adopted at presidential level, after my veto at ministerial level, was an explicitly written international document stating that Kosovo was not a country. That is a diplomatic triumph,” Jeremić said.