SERBIAN PRESIDENT REJECTS PLANS TO TRANSFER SOME RESPONSIBILITIES FROM UN MISSION IN KOSOVO TO EU
PanARMENIAN.Net
21.06.2008 14:35 GMT+04:00
/PanARMENIAN.Net/ Serbian President Boris Tadic on Friday again
rejected plans to transfer some responsibilities from the UN mission
in Kosovo to the European Union after the newly-independent state’s
constitution entered into force.
Tadic told the UN Security Council that Belgrade "cannot endorse"
UN chief Ban Ki-moon’s recent plans to reconfigure the UN mission
in Kosovo (UNMIK) by transferring responsibilities in the areas of
police, justice and customs to an EU mission.
"Reconfiguration must be decided by the Security Council. It is the
only institution endowed with the power to legitimate changes in the
composition of the international presence in Kosovo," Tadic noted.
Russia’s envoy to the UN, Vitaly Churkin, stated that Moscow describes
as "unacceptable any actions that transferred the functions or
property of the UNMIK" to the European Union Rule of Law Mission in
Kosovo, EULEX.
For his part, Kosovo President Fatmir Sejdiu said that Kosovo has
completed status talks with Serbia.
"Territorial integrity of Kosovo is protected internationally and
secession of the Serb-inhabited northern part of Kosovo is not a
subject for discussion," he said, the UN news center reported.