Drecun: UNSCR 1244 is still alive

BELGRADE - The opportunity for Serbia to present the facts and explain the dramatic nature of the situation in Kosovo-Metohija is where the greatest significance of Thursday's UN Security Council session lies, says Milovan Drecun, outgoing head of the Serbian parliamentary committee on Kosovo-Metohija.

Speaking to Tanjug on Friday, Drecun said Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic had very wisely taken the opportunity to use arguments to point out the harmfulness of Pristina's unilateral moves.

He said the holding of the session was a great success because it had demonstrated that UNSCR 1244 was still alive and that the Kosovo-Metohija issue had returned to the UN.

"In view of the years of attempts by leading Western countries to get discussions about Kosovo-Metohija completely out of the UN and abolish reports by the UN secretary general on the situation in Kosovo-Metohija, this is a great success because UNSCR 1244 has regained currency," Drecun said.

"Also, all participants in the debate, in fact, acknowledged that Pristina is responsible for the latest crisis and destabilisation due to its unilateral moves," he noted.

He said Vucic had sent several key messages, including that Pristina was aiming to finish an ethnic cleansing of Serbs in Kosovo-Metohija.

"He (Vucic) explained in a very convincing manner that, through some of its moves, Pristina is making normal life impossible for Serbs in Kosovo-Metohija and that this is a systemic policy aimed at making the Serbs move out of Kosovo-Metohija," Drecun said, noting that Pristina's PM Albin Kurti was carrying out a "soft ethnic cleansing" and committing a "crime against humanity."