Ahtisaari’s Supporters Growing More Isolated
Lavrov: Ahtisaari’s Unilateral Approach Unacceptable to Russia
Just before the start of the UN Security Council session where Ahtisaari was to present his paper on Serbian Kosovo province, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said Tuesday Ahtisaari’s unilateral approach to Kosovo-Metohija province was unacceptable.
“The report assumes the inevitability of Kosovo’s independence despite Serbia’s position. Such a unilateral approach is of course unacceptable,” Lavrov said at a press conference after meeting with Armenian Foreign Minister Vartan Oskanian in Yerevan, Interfax reports.
“Russia will only support a resolution that meets the interests of both Belgrade and Pristina,” he said, stressing that the settlement of the Serbian Kosovo-Metohija problem “will be projected to other conflicts,” despite Western claims to the contrary.
Janlin: China Resolutely Against Imposing Solution for Southern Serbian Province
“China resolutely opposes imposition of the solution for Serbian Kosovo-Metohija province and believes that only a Belgrade-Pristina dialogue may yield positive results,” emphasized Pan Janlin, high official of the Foreign Policy Comity of Chinese National and Political Advisory Body, according to the Serbian TV report.
Talking to the Serbian Ambassador in Beijing Miomir Udovicki, Janlin pointed out that “taking away Kosovo province without Serbia’s consent would represent a flagrant breach of the UN Charter and basic norms of international law.” Janlin, who was the People’s Republic of China Ambassador in Belgrade at the time of NATO aggression and during the attack on Chinese embassy eight years ago, especially warned that granting independence to southern Serbian province would represent “an extremely dangerous precedent for similar regions in the world.”
Slovakia Vehemently Opposed to Disregarding Serbia’s Will
According to the Czech news agency CTK, Chairman of the junior ruling Slovak National Party Jan Slota sharply criticized U.S. policy seeking to dismember Serbian state. “The USA is behaving like a dictator in the world, liquidating whole nations,” Jan Slota said on Slovak Television Sunday. He added that the USA wished another war in the Balkans and this is why it pushed for independence of the Serbian province of Kosovo.
Slota also criticized the USA for having bombed Belgrade in the 1999 during the war against violent Albanian secessionists in Kosovo province, adding that Serbia was then more devastated than after WW II which, by the way, is correct: Belgrade citizens who have lived through both Hitler’s carpet bombing in April 1941 and the U.S.-led NATO aggression from March-June 1999 have testified to the fact that the terror and devastation NATO has caused with areal bombardment was far worse than the one wrought by the Hitler’s Luftwaffe “mission” fifty years earlier.
Slota stressed that Americans would like to destroy Serbs who had defended Christianity against Turkish invasions in the past, calling on Slovak Foreign Minister Jan Kubis not to vote for Kosovo province’s limited or supervised independence proposed by Martti Ahtisaari in the U.N. Security Council, where Slovakia is also one of the elected members. Slota pointed out that Kubis is bound by the Slovak parliament resolution which rejected the independence of Kosovo, insisting that Serbia’s will has to be respected.
The threat of hijacking Kosovo-Metohija province against Serbia’s will is a cause of serious concerns among Slovak leaders and politicians, since seizing part of Serbia’s integral territory on behalf of Albanian separatists in Serbia would encourage the similar land-grabbing intentions by the Hungarian minority in Slovakia.
Cartoon by Toso Borkovic (Serbia)