Deputy USA UN Ambassador Rosemary Di Carlo’s assessment that deployment of the Serbian Ministry of Interior Affairs in the north of Kosovo and Metohija is unacceptable and would represent a violation of Resolution 1244, is plain sophistry, aimed at justifying Pristina’s unilateral moves and attempts to forcefully change reality on the ground. Serbian Ministry of Interior Affairs has not engaged, nor have any of its members in the north or any other part of the province.
Belgrade has been strictly abiding by and insisting on upholding the UN Security Council Resolution 1244. It is no secret to whom violation and stepping out of the UNSCR 1244 framework are tolerated. What we have here are attempts to provide an alibi for Pristina's unilateral actions, the same ones which generated crises and escalated tensions in the north of the province, Goran Bogdanovic, Minister for Kosovo and Metohija told the Politika daily.
What is your comment to notions that Serbia should give up municipalities, and continue to fund education, health?
It is no secret that Serbs in Kosovo and Metohija have survived only in places where there are Serbian institutions. Without local governments and state institutions of Serbia, Serbian community in Kosovo and Metohija cannot survive. Any hybrid or half solution would be a step towards the shut down of our institutions, which could lead to exodus of Serbs from the province.
According to Thaci, "the parallel structures financed by Serbia in north are acting as paramilitary structures and undertaking terrorist acts"?
This is another statement which clearly shows how far Pristina and Thaci are ready to go. It is inappropriate that a person suspected of the worst war crimes, such as trafficking in human organs described in the Dick Marty report, should be talking about paramilitary groups and terrorism in the north of the province, and about Serbian state institutions in northern Kosovo turning into paramilitary structures and carrying out terrorist acts. We all know full well that these institutions represent democratically elected bodies, and that it is owing to them that Serbs managed to survive. It is clear that our institutions bother Thaci, because they guarantee the survival of Serbs and present an obstacle for the Albanian extremists to carry out ethnic cleansing. As opposed to the south of the Ibar where Albanian paramilitary and terrorist organizations operate and often pose various threats to the Serbian population, in the north there is no paramilitary organization whatsoever, and Serbian institutions act in conformity with democratic standards and rule of law, protecting and advocating for the interests of people.
Jelena Cerovina