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Trifković

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2022-09-08
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  1. “There are indicators of renewed preparations for unrest in Kosovo and Metohija through instructions on increasing the presence of NATO forces. The situation today is more than dangerous, and the hybrid war threatens to turn into a large-scale direct conflict. Given the state of modern weapons, that calls into question the survival and future of our civilization. The Security Council has a great responsibility to prevent conflicts and facilitate the establishment of peace and security. The first step in that direction requires that Western countries stop supplying weapons to Ukraine and that the black market in arms be closed.”

    2022-09-08 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9127 (2022) · source

  2. “From all of this, it can be concluded that the Ukrainian side perceives civilians, as well as prisoners of war, as legitimate targets and that its aim is to achieve as many victims as possible, which goes against all rules of war and international humanitarian law. In addition, in many cases — between 20 and 30 per cent — weapons that Western countries deliver to Ukraine pass through corrupt members of the Security Service of Ukraine and end up in third countries, often in the hands of terrorists. That increases the danger that many regions could be further destabilized. There are well-founded suspicions that some weapons from Ukraine have already been transferred to Bosnia and Herzegovina and Kosovo and Metohija — areas that are still endangered by potential outbreaks of renewed conflicts years after the end of the war in Yugoslavia.”

    2022-09-08 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9127 (2022) · source

  3. “Then, on the night of 29 July, there was another attack by the Ukrainian army on a detention centre in Olenivka where prisoners of war from the Azov Battalion were also held. As a result, 51 people died and 75 were injured. On 30 July, the Ukrainian army targeted the centre of the densely populated city of Donetsk, which had previously been demined and completely cleared. On that occasion, the Ukrainian forces used Uragan missiles produced by NATO that in addition to their standard destructive effect are equipped with cluster munitions. Each of the rockets contained a large quantity of banned PMF-1 “petal” anti-personnel mines. They completely paralysed the city and its food and water supplies to its inhabitants for several days.”

    2022-09-08 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9127 (2022) · source

  4. “The Center for Geostrategic Studies, which I lead, recently sent a letter to the United Nations Human Rights Committee, the Council of Europe, the Red Cross and other institutions that states the following facts. It is evident that the Ukrainian army often uses prohibited cluster weapons to target the civilian population in eastern Ukraine. An inspection of the situation on the ground revealed that between April and July of this year, the Ukrainian army repeatedly targeted Izyum with cluster bombs, which led to the death of a large number of civilians. On 20 July, in the Donetsk region, the Ukrainian army carried out several missile attacks by United States high mobility artillery rocket systems on the settlements of Olenivka and Oleksandrivka, including on civilian objects and infrastructure.”

    2022-09-08 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9127 (2022) · source

  5. “It should be noted that Albanian separatists from Kosovo formed an official Kosovo army in 2018, in contravention of resolution 1244 (1999), and that regardless of that violation of international law, a number of countries, including the United States, Great Britain, Turkey and others have trained and armed that illegal army. Today in Ukraine we can also see examples both of direct interference in the conflict, with Western countries sending weapons to the Ukrainians, and of the use of third countries to supply weapons to Ukraine. A Ukrainian plane that took off from Niš loaded with weapons recently crashed in Greece. Weapons are also reaching Ukraine via various Asian and African countries, and those weapons are killing the civilian population in Ukraine, regardless of whether they speak Ukrainian or Russian.”

    2022-09-08 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9127 (2022) · source

  6. “The biggest concession to Muslims is the permission given by the United Nations Protection Force (UNPROFOR) to arm Croatian and Muslim units under the conditions of an embargo on the import of weapons. Their basic task was control of all kinds. There is evidence that even weapons from the American Ramstein Air Base, in Germany, were delivered to Muslim forces in Bosnia. In 1994, Admiral Leighton Smith of the United States and General Bertrand de Lapresle of France agreed that arming Serbia’s neighbours was an important obligation. A third example was the arming of Albanians in 1997 to incite a rebellion, in which weapons were taken from military warehouses in Albania, transferred to the territory of Kosovo and Metohija and handed over to members of the terrorist Kosovo Liberation Army.”

    2022-09-08 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9127 (2022) · source

  7. “In October 1990, the counter-intelligence service recorded a Špegelj conversation, from which it became clear that he received help from the United States for those operations. The leadership of Croatia, in agreement with Slovenia, illegally imported large quantities of weapons from former Warsaw Pact countries, such as Hungary and Romania, and thus armed 100,000 members of paramilitary formations. Another example is the arming of Muslims in Bosnia and Herzegovina from 1992 to 1995 by Saudi Arabia, Afghanistan, Turkey, Iran and others, which was carried out through Croatia, but with the knowledge and approval of the American Administration — headed then by George Bush and later by Bill Clinton. Bosnian Muslims were also armed during the embargo.”

    2022-09-08 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9127 (2022) · source

  8. “That is why, from the beginning, I considered the war in Ukraine to be a hybrid war and compared it to the one waged on the territory of the former Yugoslavia in the 1990s, in terms of the external influence on war preparations to the direct and indirect participation in the war of various parties through the training, arming, bringing volunteers to, and commanding of, an army. I will mention a few of the most important examples. The first is the case of a Croatian general, Špegelj, a member of the Yugoslav People’s Army, who smuggled weapons into Croatia through Hungary, Austria and Italy, armed paramilitary formations and prepared them for attacks on members of the regular army even before the start of the war in Yugoslavia.”

    2022-09-08 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9127 (2022) · source

  9. “Ms. Trifković: At the outset, I want to express my special respect for this high organ of the world Organization and to thank you, Mr. President, for the opportunity to speak. I consider every word spoken to be a great responsibility. When we talk about the war in Ukraine, it is very important to look at it consistently and to take into account the arguments of both warring parties. Of great concern is the fact that often one hears only accusations that are not supported by arguments, much less evidence. The view of the war of someone who is from Serbia and who has survived and learned about the special methods of warfare may differ from that of many others who do not have that experience.”

    2022-09-08 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9127 (2022) · source