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Brnabić

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first: 2023-10-23
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“Kosovo is not a member of the United Nations, and 80 per cent of the world’s population does not recognize Kosovo and Metohija. Finally — and I will finish with this — we heard about victims of sexual violence. As a woman, I can say that I think that sexual violence and rape are the worst crimes against humanity. Yes, we know that, unfortunately and regrettably, Albanian women were raped. Serbian women were raped as well. Roma women were raped as well. To be honest, I cannot believe that even victims of sexual violence are seen only through the lens of ethnicity and used only for political propaganda.”
2023-10-23 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9450 (2023) · source
“If I heard the Albanian Ambassador correctly, then it would turn out that 11-year-old Stefan Stojanović shot himself and that Azem Kurtaj probably helped him. Did he take him to hospital? No — in fact, Azem Kurtaj, who is a free man, shot an 11-year-old boy in the evening of Serbian Orthodox Christmas Day. That is how Serbs live in Kosovo and Metohija. We then heard that Serbia wants Kosovo’s territory and that Serbia considers itself the only one who can interpret international law. Well, let me say that, as we sit here in the United Nations Security Council, the United Nations recognizes the Republic of Serbia in its entirety, with the Autonomous Province of Kosovo and Metohija as part of the Republic of Serbia. This is where we sit — the home of the United Nations.”
2023-10-23 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9450 (2023) · source
“Those who were supposedly protecting them. Imagine, Serbia is terrorizing Serbs. That is, in all honesty, what we heard today. Then we heard that Kosovo is a shining example of democracy and the rule of law. However, we did not hear how that same Kosovo came to be the world champion of the lowest number of returnees of all the post-conflict territories. It claims to be a fantastic, shining example. But with all that rule of law, security and veto rights, how come people are not going back? Because when they go back, they are arrested. How long do they stay in prison? No one knows. On average, it is 21 months — approximately two years. Is it happening in Syria? To be perfectly honest, I do not know. I am explaining what is happening in Kosovo and Metohija.”
2023-10-23 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9450 (2023) · source
“With regard to Visoki Dečani land ownership, in May 2016, the Constitutional Court of Kosovo confirmed the Visoki Dečani monastery’s ownership of several hectares of land. Despite that legal decision, seven years later, the Court’s decision has still not been implemented. The Visoki Dečani monastery is the only religious site in the world that has been under the constant protection of military forces — fully armed NATO Kosovo Force forces — for more than 20 years. That is how secure they are. We then heard that Serbia is in fact terrorizing Serbs and Pristina is protecting them. I guess that is why 11 per cent of Serbs — or 2,000 Serbian families — have left Kosovo and Metohija since May this year alone. Where did they go? To central Serbia, which is supposedly terrorizing them. Where did they leave and who did they run away from?”
2023-10-23 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9450 (2023) · source
“However, they are in fact Serbian Orthodox churches. She cannot even say it. Let me also clarify how well-protected Serbian Orthodox churches really are and the high level of security they supposedly enjoy. First, Google the Visoki Dečani monastery. Do not trust me — Google Visoki Dečani. It is one of the most important monasteries for the Serbian Orthodox Church and for Serbian people in Kosovo and Metohija. Among the first search results will be the inclusion of the Visoki Dečani monastery on the 2021 list of the seven most endangered heritage sites in Europe. That is how secure and protected sites of the Serbian Orthodox Church are. That comes from Europa Nostra, not Ana Brnabić or Serbia.”
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“Secondly, we all heard that Serbs enjoy veto rights. They do have veto rights — on paper. When the so- called Kosovo Parliament decided on the establishment of the Kosovo security forces, Serbs were supposed to vote — except they did not. The Kosovo security forces should not have been established, as Serbs did not vote. Yet the Kosovo security forces were nevertheless established. That is how the veto rights of Serbs work in practice. We heard that Serbian Orthodox churches enjoy a high level of security, but let me be clear: we heard them referred to as Orthodox churches, not Serbian Orthodox churches. That is how respected and valued they are. The so-called President of the so-called Republic of Kosovo could not even utter the word Serbian. She said Orthodox churches, not Serbian Orthodox churches.”
2023-10-23 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9450 (2023) · source
“Ms. Brnabić (Serbia): I will immediately start by saying that it would probably take me a couple of hours to respond to what was said by Ms. Osmani-Sadriu, as well as by the Albanian Ambassador, but I will give a few examples that show the difference between words and actions. We heard from Ms. Osmani-Sadriu that Kosovo is constructive and committed to dialogue. What we did not hear, though, is why Kosovo did not implement the First Agreement of Principles Governing the Normalization of Relations and establish the community of Serb- majority municipalities for more than 10 years. It has been more than 10 years — that is how constructive and committed they in fact are. Belgrade has done everything that was proclaimed by the Brussels Agreement. Pristina did not implement a single word. That is how constructive and committed they are.”
2023-10-23 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9450 (2023) · source
“At this point in time, the most rational approach would be for KFOR, in line with its mandate pursuant to resolution 1244 (1999), to temporarily assume full responsibility for security in northern Kosovo and Metohija. We also call for new local elections in the north of Kosovo and Metohija to be held as soon as possible. I can only say that Belgrade will remain committed to the dialogue despite all of the difficulties.”
2023-10-23 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9450 (2023) · source
“While the dialogue continues and we search for a compromise that will ensure long-term peace and stability, for a historic reconciliation between Serbs and Albanians and for prosperity, I ask the Council to help the people living in Kosovo and Metohija, including Serbs and non-Albanians, to live in peace and enjoy basic freedoms, safety and security without constant intimidation and persecution. Thirdly, we stand for and firmly believe in the principles of the international rule of law and the Charter of the United Nations and will continue calling for full respect for resolution 1244 (1999). Fourthly, we want peace and stability. Together, let us take steps to prevent the crisis from spiralling completely out of control. Dialogue is the only way to solve the problems in Kosovo and Metohija.”
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“All previous agreements emanating from the dialogue have been brutally violated, dealing a fatal blow to the very idea of negotiations, normalization and reconciliation. Those repressive and ethnically motivated actions were carefully calculated to provoke reactions from Serbs in northern Kosovo and Metohija, for the sole purpose of later exploiting such responses in order to continue and intensify the reprisals and the terror. Let me underscore in the simplest possible terms what the goal of the Republic of Serbia is. First, we want to see the implementation of all past agreements, namely, the Brussels Agreement and the establishment of the community of Serb municipalities, in line with the agreements reached in 2013 and 2015. Secondly, we want security for our people and for all people living in Kosovo and Metohija.”
2023-10-23 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9450 (2023) · source
“Displaced Serbs cannot return to Kosovo and Metohija. When they try, men get arrested, and women like Dragica Gašić are threatened and terrorized. The Serbs who stayed live in terror and insecurity every hour of every day. Pristina basically wants them out and is demonstrating that in clear terms, and 11 per cent of them have already left. Make no mistake — what we are witnessing is a campaign of silent ethnic cleansing. The campaign of systematic and widespread violence against Serbs and the deliberate creation of unbearable living conditions for them can be seen in the gradual but permanent denial of their basic human rights, the attacks by members of armed Pristina formations, the physical assaults on Serbs and their property and the false indictments.”
2023-10-23 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9450 (2023) · source
“I would also like to use this opportunity to express my sincere regret for the loss of human lives, and I hope that it never happens again. The events that occurred in Banjska were unfortunately a logical consequence of the reign of fear and terror that Pristina decided to enforce, despite the clear demands for de-escalation made by the international community, precisely counting on the peaceful resistance of the Serbian people in northern Kosovo and Metohija to become something more. To sum up, we have continuously and repeatedly expressed concerns about the dangers that could arise from Pristina’s refusal to fulfil the obligations undertaken in the dialogue with Belgrade, facilitated by the EU. The current situation on the ground is the inevitable consequence of a series of more than a dozen unilateral actions by Pristina.”
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“The crisis in Kosovo and Metohija escalated tragically but predictably on 24 September, when an armed conflict occurred between a group of armed Serbs from Kosovo and Metohija and police and paramilitary formations from Pristina in the village of Banjska and its surroundings. Investigations are ongoing to provide all the answers and shed light on all the uncertainties surrounding that event, including the manner in which two of the three deceased Serbs lost their lives, which appears to have been by cold-blooded execution following their surrender. I want to assert responsibly that Belgrade and Serbia’s security forces and structures had nothing to do with that incident, and we are prepared to provide all the information and evidence that are available today to the international community to confirm that statement.”
2023-10-23 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9450 (2023) · source
“They also enacted a new law on expropriation, legalizing the unlawful seizure of Serbian land. Pristina persisted in establishing illegal bases in northern Kosovo on land unlawfully taken from Serbs. The EU delegation in Pristina stated that, “The establishment of four Kosovo police bases on private and socially owned land — in some cases prior to initiating expropriation procedures — raises concerns about property rights in the north of Kosovo and must be adequately addressed’’. Finally, only two days ago, the abbot of the Devina Vode monastery near Zvečan, Father Fotije, was deported to North Macedonia without any clear explanation. He was just deported. And during the same brief period, after the EU called for de-escalation, as many as 74 ethnically motivated attacks against Serbs occurred.”
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“And that was after the EU had called for de-escalation. He said, “[E]scalation continues.... Very alarmed by the situation in the north of Kosovo: extrajudicial arrests of Kosovo Serbs and Kosovo security forces marching in South Mitrovica.” On 28 June, on our most important national holiday, Vidovdan, the Kosovo police stopped, as many as three times, the car in which the elder son of the Serbian President Aleksandar Vučić — Danilo — was traveling. It is a clear, brutal provocation. On 29 June, Pristina unilaterally declared the Civil Protection a terrorist organization without coordination or consultation with international partners. And so on. As Council members heard from the Special Representative, Pristina continued the illegal expropriation of land owned by Serbs in Zubin Potok and Leposavić.”
2023-10-23 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9450 (2023) · source
“The UNMIK report confirms that there is a video showing the mistreatment and degradation of one of the arrested individuals while in police custody, which was widely circulated on social media. The Kosovo police intercepted two underage children, Kristijan Radosavljević, aged 15, and Dara Radosavljević, aged 17, riding quad bikes in the village of Rudine near Zvečan, and brutally beat them — a 15-year-old boy and a 17-year-old girl. Their mother found her son kneeling with his hands covering his head, while two heavily armed policemen stood over him. On 23 June, the so-called Kosovo security forces conducted a military march with hundreds of their members in southern Mitrovica and in the outskirts of northern Mitrovica. On that occasion, the EU High Representative, Josep Borrell Fontelles, said that the escalation continued.”
2023-10-23 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9450 (2023) · source
“Obrenović, as can be clearly seen in the video footage, was peacefully protesting against violence, but that and subsequent other evidence did not prevent him from being arrested, after which he was brutally mistreated and beaten up. He remains in custody to this day. On 3 June the EU called for de-escalation. And since that day, Pristina has taken no less than 23 escalatory steps in northern Kosovo and Metohija. A total of 24 Serbs have been arrested since the EU demanded immediate de-escalation. One of them, Milun Milenković Lune, was brutally and inhumanely beaten during his arrest and detention, documented in medical records and reports. He is accused of participating in citizen protests in Zvečan, even though he was not even present in Zvečan on the day of the protests. He is also still detained.”
2023-10-23 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9450 (2023) · source
“What happened in the following days — as all Council members know, and as we read in the UNMIK report — was basically a terrible escalation. Protests resulted in injuries to more than 50 unarmed Serbs. Injuries were inflicted on KFOR members, which is tragic and unacceptable. On that occasion, three Serbs were hospitalized for gunshot wounds and four Serbs were arrested. The most severe injuries were sustained by Dragiša Gajak, who was shot in the back with a burst from an automatic rifle, suffering injuries to his spine, abdomen and hand. The member of the special unit of the Kosovo police responsible for that crime has not been arrested or even charged. Rather than pursuing the criminals who shot at the demonstrators, Pristina is keeping people like Dušan Obrenović in prison.”
2023-10-23 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9450 (2023) · source
“It decided to hold local elections in which only 0.03 per cent of Serbs participated, when Serbs make up more than 95 per cent of the population in northern Kosovo and Metohija. The elections were conducted in a reduced number of polling stations and voting took place in special containers guarded by fully armed militia. “Free and fair” is not the term anyone would use to describe those elections. Following those events — because they cannot be referred to as elections — appointees of Pristina, who cannot be referred to as elected mayors, forcibly entered the municipal offices accompanied by special units of the Kosovo police armed with long-barrelled guns, which is another direct violation of the Brussels Agreement.”
2023-10-23 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9450 (2023) · source
“When we talk about the fact that Pristina is simply ignoring international agreements — whether that means the Brussels Agreement, CEFTA, or the Stabilization and Association Agreement — let us look at how Pristina met the international community’s most recent requests for de-escalation. But first, what led to the escalation of an already terrible situation on the ground? The key event, from which everything began to move irreversibly towards comprehensive destabilization, was the sham local elections held in April in four municipalities in the north. Instead of understanding that the Serbs had left the provisional institutions in a clear call to Pristina to fully implement the Brussels Agreement — finally, after more than 10 years — and to save the dialogue process, Pristina decided to escalate things further.”
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“As a direct consequence, Serbs and other non-Albanians in Kosovo and Metohija are finding it increasingly difficult to access food and medicines. We have a looming humanitarian crisis. Health-care facilities in predominantly Serbian areas cannot procure basic medical supplies such as oxygen. Medicines that are no longer available include chemotherapy drugs, anaesthetics, antibiotics, infusion solutions and vaccines. There is a maximum of two weeks’ worth of medicines available for extremely urgent cases and surgeries. They even lack BCG vaccines for babies.”
2023-10-23 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9450 (2023) · source
“In yet another signal that it does not recognize or care for the Brussels Agreement, on 4 August, amid the security crisis in northern Kosovo and Metohija, Pristina tried to revoke the licence of the telecommunications company Mobile TeleSystems, or MTS. That measure is a direct violation of the Brussels Agreement and the accomplishments that were achieved through it. Then, on 14 June, Pristina also directly breached the Central European Free Trade Agreement (CEFTA), and not for the first time. The ban on the movement of Serbian goods, or goods from central Serbia, in Kosovo and Metohija directly violates principles of free trade, the CEFTA Agreement and chapter IV of the Stabilization and Association Agreement between the EU and Pristina.”
2023-10-23 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9450 (2023) · source
“We all know that in the past two years Pristina has openly stated on several occasions that it has no interest in or intention of supporting the establishment of the community of Serb municipalities. To make things worse, in the past 12 months Pristina has actively been undermining everything that was achieved through the Brussels Agreement. On 3 November of last year, Albin Kurti removed the Director of the Regional Police Directorate North, effectively dismantling the multi-ethnic police force in Kosovo and Metohija, in direct contradiction of article 9 of the Brussels Agreement. Only after that action did the representatives of the Serbian people leave the institutions in Pristina. Their departure occurred after Kurti essentially expelled them from those institutions.”
2023-10-23 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9450 (2023) · source
“Establishing that community is an essential element on which the implementation of any further agreement rests. But I want to state clearly that it has to be the community of Serb municipalities that was agreed based on the signed agreements from 2013 and 2015. It cannot not be just any organization bearing that name. The method of forming and adopting the statute of the community of Serb municipalities, as well as its powers, has been clearly defined and cannot be subject to interpretation. The general principles for establishing the community of Serb municipalities, its legal framework and a detailed list of its competencies, are clearly stated in the 2015 agreement, which was signed by Isa Mustafa, as the official representative of Pristina, in the presence of Federica Mogherini, the then High Representative of the European Union (EU).”
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“In that regard, the question posed before this body is whether that serves as a reason for action or merely a cause for statements. The third clear message from the officials in Pristina to Serbs, but also to international community, is this: the agreements reached shall not be implemented, and those agreements or parts of the agreements that were in fact implemented will be annulled, dismantled or blocked. As the UNMIK report clearly states, and as have all the others in the past 10 years at least, not a word of the Brussels Agreement — the First Agreement of Principles Governing the Normalization of Relations — has been implemented by Pristina. That must change. It is high time for establishing the community of Serb municipalities, which was agreed on five or six years ago but has still not been done.”
2023-10-23 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9450 (2023) · source
“Just since the beginning of this year, six Serbs have been shot at and no one has been found criminally responsible. In the past two and a half years, there have been an unbelievable 434 ethnically motivated attacks on Serbs and their property — a 50 per cent increase compared to the period before the Administration of Prime Minister Albin Kurti — and we still do not know if anybody has been held accountable or if any charges have been pressed against any of the perpetrators. As a direct result of that terror, 11 per cent of Serbs have left northern Kosovo and Metohija since Albin Kurti came to power. I will repeat that: 11 per cent of Serbs have left Kosovo and Metohija in the past two years owing the campaign of systematic and widespread violence against Serbs and the deliberate creation of unbearable living conditions for them.”
2023-10-23 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9450 (2023) · source
“Zlatko Arsić, who had been part of the Kosovo police even longer and, surprisingly, had also been awarded a medal by Pristina for his service with the Kosovo police as an honourable man, was arrested on 7 March and is, of course, also still in custody. He is still in prison and not with his family. Therefore, the very simple truth is that, in today’s Kosovo, if one is a Serb, one can be arbitrarily arrested, charged and kept in custody for as long as its politicians wish. And that is happening in the presence of the Kosovo Force (KFOR), UNMIK and the European Union Rule of Law Mission in Kosovo (EULEX). Can Council members imagine what life in Kosovo and Metohija would be like if it were governed by Pristina without the presence of KFOR, UNMIK and EULEX?”
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“Therefore, they passed security clearances by Pristina, were accepted into the Kosovo police force, served for years as part of the multi-ethnic policing, thanks to the implementation of the Brussels First Agreement of Principles Governing the Normalization of Relations by Belgrade and Serbs in Kosovo and Metohija, and once they left the police, they were arrested and charged with being war criminals. Slađan Trajković, who had been part of the Kosovo police since 2013 and had passed all the security clearances, was arrested on 15 December and is still in custody now, more than 10 months later.”
2023-10-23 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9450 (2023) · source
“On the other hand, interestingly, in that same legal system and according to that kind of standard of the rule of law, which freed a criminal who shot at children, if one is a Serb, as are brothers Andrija and Mihajlo Mitić, one gets arrested and detained in prison for a month for not wearing a seat belt. For not wearing a seat belt, one ends up in prison for one month if one is a Serb. It is unbelievable. But the sad truth is that this is what the everyday life of Serbs in Kosovo and Metohija looks like today. Unfortunately, we have even more paradoxical examples. Slađan Trajković and Zlatko Arsić were both accused and arrested for alleged war crimes. Surprisingly, they both used to be members of the so- called Kosovo police, in which, in order to get employed, they had to obtain security clearances from Pristina.”
2023-10-23 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9450 (2023) · source
“And that is perhaps all anyone needs to know about the rule of law in Kosovo and Metohija and all anyone needs to know about the conditions in which Serbs and other non-Albanians live in Kosovo and Metohija today. Therefore, let me pose this question to all of us at this meeting. When an Albanian, a member of the so-called Kosovo security forces, shoots and severely wounds a child and is then proclaimed a free man, is that not a call by officials in Pristina for anyone else to shoot at Serbs, terrorize them, wound or kill them? Why would they not do so? There is no consequence for such acts. The amnesty for Kurtaj is basically an open invitation for others to repeat those kinds of acts.”
2023-10-23 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9450 (2023) · source
“From a human standpoint, the absolute turning point when everyone understood that what Pristina wants is for Serbs to leave, was not actually the attempted murder of the 11-year-old boy Stefan Stojanović and his 21-year-old cousin Miloš Stojanović while they were participating in a Christmas procession in Gotovuša, near Štrpce. No, it was, actually, the day when Azem Kurtaj, who committed that crime by shooting at children on Christmas and who is a member of the so-called Kosovo security forces — which is, by the way, an illegal formation according to paragraph 15 of resolution 1244 (1999) — was let go as a free man. Again, Azem Kurtaj who shot and wounded an 11-year-old child on Christmas is today a free man in Kosovo and Metohija. He was granted a complete amnesty by Pristina’s judiciary.”
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“They are kept wondering if their children, brothers, fathers and husbands will be shot at freely simply because they are Serbs, if their priests will be deported and their property confiscated and if those who shoot at them and those who beat them up will always, as a rule, be let to walk free — as is happening every day in today’s Kosovo and Metohija. By doing that every day of every week of every month of every year for the past few years, Pristina has managed to generate a dangerous security crisis, as we have also seen in the most recent UNMIK report. What we see in Kosovo and Metohija today is comprehensive political, legal, institutional and physical violence against Serbs.”
2023-10-23 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9450 (2023) · source
“You are not welcome.” Hence again the humiliating fact is that Kosovo and Metohija remains the world champion out of all the post-conflict territories around the world in terms of the least number of returnees. The second message that is being sent to Serbs, in the most brutal ways, is: those who stayed, who still live on the territory of Kosovo and Metohija and who want to stay should leave. That message is being sent through months and years of systematic, outright annulment of even the most basic human rights of Serbs and other non-Albanians, turning their lives into a constant nightmare of insecurity caused by the total and utter absence of the rule of law and marked by arbitrary decision-making as to who will be arrested, taken into custody, beaten up, tortured, humiliated and kept in prison for unknown periods of time, and when.”
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“Just in the past few months, to cite a few examples, individuals, such as Dušan Arsić from Matica near Pristina, Časlav Jolić and Gavrilo Milosavljević from Istok, and Milorad Đoković from Vitomirac, were all arrested — all of them — on charges of war crimes, although they entered Kosovo and Metohija on multiple occasions in the past and were never arrested or charged with anything whatsoever, until such time as they asked for their private property, land and homes to be returned to them. At that point in time, the charges suddenly emerged. It was only after legal processes aimed at reclaiming usurped property had begun. That is a clear message to displaced Serbs from the officials in Pristina. The message is “Do not return.”
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“It is deeply disturbing, unfortunate and also embarrassing that Kosovo and Metohija remains, according to all relevant United Nations reports, a territory which, compared to all post-conflict territories in this whole crazy world of ours, has the lowest number of returnees. Fewer than 2 per cent of displaced people have returned to Kosovo and Metohija. I repeat, fewer than 2 per cent. That is not by accident. When they go back — if they try to go back — they usually see that their private property has been illegally seized by someone. They then obviously go to the authorities to report that usurpation and ask for assistance, hoping for justice and fairness. On most occasions, instead of receiving assistance, they find themselves arrested and end up in prison.”
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“From what we can all see on the ground, based on numerous examples in the past 12 months, the officials in Pristina, the Administration in Pristina, regrettably I have to say, to put it in the simplest form, have only three key messages for Serbs, other non-Albanians and the international community. And everything we are seeing in those reports and everything that is happening every day on the ground can be summed up in those three key messages. The first message is that those Serbs who left after 1999 or during the ethnic cleansing — the pogrom — of 2004 should not come back. They are not welcome.”
2023-10-23 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9450 (2023) · source
“I will do my best to refrain from overly bureaucratic language and present the views in a clear and straightforward manner, simply because the situation in the past two years and especially in the past 12 months — and I fully agree with Ms. Ziadeh — has become so grave that we all need to try to understand, not as politicians but, first and foremost, as human beings, what is happening and where to go from here in order to provide at least a glimpse of hope to those in Kosovo and Metohija who suffer every day — at least a glimpse of hope that stability and long-term peace are possible.”
2023-10-23 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9450 (2023) · source
“Ms. Brnabić (Serbia): I would like to start by expressing my gratitude to the Secretary-General, António Guterres, and Special Representative of the Secretary-General and Head of the United Nations Interim Administration Mission in Kosovo (UNMIK), Ms. Ziadeh, for the attention they dedicate to Kosovo and Metohija. As always, I would like to emphasize the importance of regular and objective reporting on the situation in Kosovo and Metohija, autonomous province of the Republic of Serbia, in line with the Constitution of the Republic of Serbia but also with the Charter of the United Nations, resolution 1244 (1999) and basic principles of international law. I am thankful for the opportunity to share our views regarding the most recent UNMIK report (S/2023/735) with those present and with the international public.”
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