Jeremić in New York for UN SC session

Foreign Minister Vuk Jeremic is traveling to New York to attend a UN Security Council session on Kosovo. Tomorrow, Jeremic will inform the UN that Belgrade does not accept any illegal act of secession by Kosovo's ethnic Albanians. Jeremic in New York for UN SC session The foreign minister will ask the Security Council to do everything to prevent a unilateral declaration of independence, and Serbia's request is expected to receive support from a large number of Security Council member states, Tanjug has learned from the Foreign Minister's cabinet. He will also warn that a declaration of independence without Serbia's consent will be a violation of international law, Resolution 1244 and the Constitution of Serbia, and would lead to instability throughout the region as a whole. Earlier, Serbia's UN ambassador Pavle Jevremovic had called for an urgent meeting of the United Nations Security Council to discuss Kosovo, a move supported by Russia. Jevremovic asked the Security Council in a letter for an assessment of the “extremely dangerous situation in the Serbian province of Kosovo, where we are witnesses to the final preparations for a unilateral declaration of independence.” He said that such an independence declaration would violate UN Security Council Resolution 1244, which had allowed the arrival of a UN administration and NATO troops in the province, while guaranteeing Serbia's territorial integrity. Russian UN ambassador Vitaly Churkin had said earlier that Serbia should call for a UN SC meeting and that Russia would support such a motion, given the “dangerous turn of events.” Vuk Jeremic (FoNet, archive)

Jeremić in New York for UN SC session

The foreign minister will ask the Security Council to do everything to prevent a unilateral declaration of independence, and Serbia's request is expected to receive support from a large number of Security Council member states, Tanjug has learned from the Foreign Minister's cabinet.

He will also warn that a declaration of independence without Serbia's consent will be a violation of international law, Resolution 1244 and the Constitution of Serbia, and would lead to instability throughout the region as a whole.

Earlier, Serbia's UN ambassador Pavle Jevremović had called for an urgent meeting of the United Nations Security Council to discuss Kosovo, a move supported by Russia.

Jevremović asked the Security Council in a letter for an assessment of the “extremely dangerous situation in the Serbian province of Kosovo, where we are witnesses to the final preparations for a unilateral declaration of independence.”

He said that such an independence declaration would violate UN Security Council Resolution 1244, which had allowed the arrival of a UN administration and NATO troops in the province, while guaranteeing Serbia's territorial integrity.

Russian UN ambassador Vitaly Churkin had said earlier that Serbia should call for a UN SC meeting and that Russia would support such a motion, given the “dangerous turn of events.”