UNMIK chief sends protest letter to Belgrade

UNMIK chief Joachim Ruecker has sent the Serbian government a letter of protest.

Izvor: BIRN

Thursday, 31.01.2008.

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UNMIK chief Joachim Ruecker has sent the Serbian government a letter of protest. In it, Ruecker expresses his "concern over some of its (the government's) actions against Kosovo’s international administration." UNMIK chief sends protest letter to Belgrade The head of UN mission in Kosovo, UNMIK, had coordinated his letter, addressed to Prime Minister Vojislav Kostunica, with member states of Contact Group which brings together six major powers, BIRN reported. The UN spokesperson, Aleksander Ivanko, told a news conference Wednesday that the letter referred to the recent Kosovo visit of Serbia’s Minister for Kosovo Slobodan Samardzic. According to Ivanko, Samardzic reportedly “intimidated the Serb minority in Kosovo in order to counter the UN administration and Kosovo’s own institutions.” “He made statements aimed at intimidating the lawful local administration and preventing it from cooperating with UNMIK and the Provisional Institutions of Self-Government”, Ivanko said while giving details of the letter. Ivanko added that “the letter also focuses on a pattern of activities in Kosovo of the Serbian government that are in violation of UN Security Council resolution 1244”, without explaining further what specific actions were referred to. Resolution 1244 established the UN administration in Kosovo at the end of the war in 1999. Joachim Ruecker (FoNet, archive)

UNMIK chief sends protest letter to Belgrade

The head of UN mission in Kosovo, UNMIK, had coordinated his letter, addressed to Prime Minister Vojislav Koštunica, with member states of Contact Group which brings together six major powers, BIRN reported.

The UN spokesperson, Aleksander Ivanko, told a news conference Wednesday that the letter referred to the recent Kosovo visit of Serbia’s Minister for Kosovo Slobodan Samardžić.

According to Ivanko, Samardžić reportedly “intimidated the Serb minority in Kosovo in order to counter the UN administration and Kosovo’s own institutions.”

“He made statements aimed at intimidating the lawful local administration and preventing it from cooperating with UNMIK and the Provisional Institutions of Self-Government”, Ivanko said while giving details of the letter.

Ivanko added that “the letter also focuses on a pattern of activities in Kosovo of the Serbian government that are in violation of UN Security Council resolution 1244”, without explaining further what specific actions were referred to.

Resolution 1244 established the UN administration in Kosovo at the end of the war in 1999.

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