Belgrade submits response to Ban

Foreign Minister Vuk Jeremic yesterday submitted Serbia’s response to UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon’s report. The response concerns the report submitted to Ban by UNMIK special envoy Joachim Ruecker, and points to numerous discrepancies contained within. Belgrade submits response to Ban “I’ve submitted our response to all the members of the Security Council and UN. I’ve drawn their attention to the large number of factual discrepancies in the UNMIK chief’s report and the large number of erroneous political conclusions in Ban’s report,” Jeremic told Tanjug, after a series of consultations with Security Council member-state diplomats in New York. In the document put together by the Kosovo and Foreign Ministries, it is stressed that “the basic principles that the UN is founded on are being violated under the aegis of UNMIK” in Kosovo. It adds that “many processes in the province, including the transfer of UNMIK powers to temporary institutions, as well as the preparations to send an EU mission are being carried out according to the Ahtisaari Plan as if the plan had been considered and adopted in the Security Council.” Commenting on the Security Council’s new line-up, where, on January 1, Croatia, Libya, Vietnam, Burkina Faso and Costa Rica replaced Slovakia, Congo, Ghana, Qatar and Peru, Jeremic said that “the new line-up is more favorable than the previous one.” “The majority tend to agree with our view that a solution needs to be found based on talks. I have underlined yet again the significance of this political process for Serbia and the region. As the permanent members have already made up their minds, the temporary ones now have a big political and psychological influence, which will be seen at the debate at the Security Council on January 16,” said Jeremic.

Belgrade submits response to Ban

“I’ve submitted our response to all the members of the Security Council and UN. I’ve drawn their attention to the large number of factual discrepancies in the UNMIK chief’s report and the large number of erroneous political conclusions in Ban’s report,” Jeremić told Tanjug, after a series of consultations with Security Council member-state diplomats in New York.

In the document put together by the Kosovo and Foreign Ministries, it is stressed that “the basic principles that the UN is founded on are being violated under the aegis of UNMIK” in Kosovo.

It adds that “many processes in the province, including the transfer of UNMIK powers to temporary institutions, as well as the preparations to send an EU mission are being carried out according to the Ahtisaari Plan as if the plan had been considered and adopted in the Security Council.”

Commenting on the Security Council’s new line-up, where, on January 1, Croatia, Libya, Vietnam, Burkina Faso and Costa Rica replaced Slovakia, Congo, Ghana, Qatar and Peru, Jeremić said that “the new line-up is more favorable than the previous one.”

“The majority tend to agree with our view that a solution needs to be found based on talks. I have underlined yet again the significance of this political process for Serbia and the region. As the permanent members have already made up their minds, the temporary ones now have a big political and psychological influence, which will be seen at the debate at the Security Council on January 16,” said Jeremić.