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  1. “Both Governments are looking to a future marked by a process of integration rather than of disintegration. My Government therefore expects the Security Council to support proposals aimed at providing the non-majority ethnic communities of Kosovo and Metohija with institutional guarantees to ensure their survival, their return, their rights and their cultural and religious heritage. We also believe it is necessary to resume the Belgrade-Pristina dialogue on practical issues. We look forward to evidence of similar commitment from the Provisional Institutions of Self- Government - which has been so consistently elusive in the past.”

    2004-04-13 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4942 (2004) · source

  2. “Such a proposal has been developed by the Government of Serbia and will soon be presented to all domestic and international actors. The proposal deals with ways to improve the conditions of the Serb community in Kosovo and Metohija and to enable its members to administer affairs of vital importance to their livelihood. It does not raise or prejudge in any way the issue of the future status of Kosovo and Metohija as envisaged by Security Council resolution 1244 (1999). It is violence and the repeated calls for independence by Kosovo Albanian leaders that seek to prejudge final status. The Government of Serbia and Montenegro and the Government of Serbia oppose changes of borders in the Balkans, well aware of the consequences these have had over the past decade and of the consequences they may have in the future.”

    2004-04-13 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4942 (2004) · source

  3. “It is essential that the particularly vulnerable ethnic communities enjoy meaningful autonomy in Kosovo and Metohija in order for them to be able to protect their lives and property, to ensure freedom of movement and employment opportunities and to gradually build possibilities for coexistence with the majority population. Proceeding from that reality, both the Government of Serbia and all relevant political factors in the Republic consider that the survival, return and peaceful life of Serbs can be guaranteed only if they are granted self-government in Kosovo and Metohija in the form of territorial autonomy, which is a long-established mechanism for the protection of the rights of ethnic, cultural and linguistic communities in Europe.”

    2004-04-13 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4942 (2004) · source

  4. “In such circumstances, it is difficult to envisage the smooth and rapid implementation of the concept of a democratic, multi-ethnic and prosperous society advanced in the "Standards for Kosovo" and Kosovo Standards Implementation Plan documents. Those documents quite simply fail to provide sufficient guarantees for the survival of the Serb population in the province, let alone for returns. The failure to establish such guarantees would signify an end to the possibility of a multi-ethnic Kosovo - in the very presence of the international community, which would share responsibility for that outcome. Therefore, we need to have real security and reliable institutional guarantees for the Serb and other ethnic communities in Kosovo and Metohija.”

    2004-04-13 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4942 (2004) · source

  5. “My Government expects the next report of the Secretary-General to assess the political background of this pre-planned violence. Disregarding the causes of an organized wave of attacks leaving many civilians dead, hundreds wounded, thousands expelled from destroyed and burning homes and dozens of Orthodox churches and monasteries devastated will not lead to safety, stability and reconciliation. Since June 1999, the Serb community and other ethnic communities have been exposed to daily attacks and intimidation by extremists among the majority population of Kosovo Albanians. After the tragic events of last month, it is clear that what is at stake in Kosovo and Metohija is not safeguarding the rights of the members of the Serb community, but ensuring that community's very physical survival.”

    2004-04-13 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4942 (2004) · source

  6. “There was ample opportunity in the five years of international administration of Kosovo and Metohija to demonstrate that a culture of impunity for ethnically motivated violence would not be tolerated. This may be one of the last opportunities to prevent impunity leading to a mono-ethnic society. Serbia and Montenegro also appreciates pledges to rebuild devastated homes, churches and villages. Only if those assurances speedily become reality will there be room for assessments that the extremists who caused the violence did not win. The March violence in Kosovo and Metohija has been widely condemned. However, we feel it necessary to point out that this bloodshed was not an abstract phenomenon requiring only general expressions of censure.”

    2004-04-13 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4942 (2004) · source

  7. “According to resolution 1244 (1999), the international security presence is mandated to establish a secure environment where refugees and displaced persons can return home in safety. By the same resolution, the international civil presence is mandated to maintain civil law and order, protect and promote human rights and assure the safe and unimpeded return of all refugees and displaced persons to their homes. Both have failed to fulfil those obligations. My Government takes note of Mr. Holkeri's announcement that UNMIK is determined to bring to justice all persons whose involvement in the latest violence can be evidenced. We will welcome the commencement of trials against perpetrators of those crimes.”

    2004-04-13 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4942 (2004) · source

  8. “Allow me, Sir, to congratulate you on your assumption of the presidency of the Security Council for the month of April and to thank you for convening this meeting on the implementation of Security Council resolution 1244 (1999). I would also like to sincerely thank Under- Secretary-General Guehenno for his briefing. Efforts to transform the western Balkans into a region of stability and progress suffered a serious setback with the outbreak of orchestrated violence, intimidation and ethnic cleansing that Kosovo Albanian extremists and terrorists committed in Kosovo and Metohija from 17 to 20 March, in the presence of the United Nations Interim Administration Mission in Kosovo (UNMIK) and KFOR.”

    2004-04-13 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4942 (2004) · source