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Resolution 1244 Crystal Clear, but Western Powers are Eager to Violate it

UN Security Council Resolution 1244 clearly defines that negotiations on the future status of Kosovo and Metohija be conducted within essential autonomy for the Serbian province, said on Thursday Serbian international law professor Milan Paunovic.

The resolution is clear, but in this situation the United States and several other powers on the decline in Europe do not want to accept it but to violate it, Paunovic said, commenting on the Wednesday session of the Security Council of Kosovo and Metohija.

“What the United States has imagined is not going to go down easy,” Paunovic assessed in a statement to Tanjug, and cautioned that a crisis was once again looming over the international law, thanks to the “arrogant and unreasonable behavior” of the largest world power and several other states in Western Europe.

Through a behavior pernicious for modern international law, the United States is seeking to destroy the international order, created after WWII by the UN Charter, “because it no longer serves its interests,” assessed Paunovic, who is a professor at Belgrade University Faculty of Law.

According to him, the United States is infringing upon the basic principles of the UN Charter, including the principle of territorial integrity of member states, in what it is followed by “the so-called powers in Europe,” who think they might “gain something in the new world order created under their domination.”

General Ivashov: West Treats Serbia the Same Way Hitler did

Russia’s Academy of Geopolitical Affairs President, General Leonid Ivashov described as very disturbing the announcement by the European Union and the United States of America that they will independently resolve the question of the status of Serbian Kosovo and Metohija province. He did not rule out the possibility of the outbreak of new war in the Balkans.

“The EU, and especially NATO, have no right to adjudicate on the independence of this or that state,” General Ivashov said in an interview for the internet edition of the Moscow daily Pravda.

According to him, it is not by chance that “the representatives of the USA and a series of states dependent on America refused to support a UN resolution against the heroization of fascism.”

“Americans created the problem in Kosovo and they have now pushed it over to the Europeans, while they themselves will deal with destabilization of other regions in the world, maintaining, at the same time, their base there (in Serbian Kosovo province) permanently,” Russian general said.

“They are doing the same thing Hitler did, while only slightly changing their methods. Hitler and his machinery also worked upon their own norms and terms which they attempted to impose on the European community, like the alleged Munich Agreement, i.e. imposed annexation of part of Czechoslovakia,” General Ivashov said.

The situation with southern Serbian province of Kosovo-Metohija most obviously demonstrates “methods of destroying states, imposing one’s own will and one’s own standards for subjugation,” he said. The balance of forces following the Second World War is toppling and the right of might is being imposed, said General Ivashov in the interview.

Tomislav Nikolic: Putin’s Russia is Our Pillar

Serbian Radical Party (SRS) deputy leader and presidential candidate Tomislav Nikolic on Thursday stated that Serbia was well represented at the UN Security Council session on Wednesday.

“I regret the fact that Serbian president, who is in charge of foreign policy, did not dare go there and directly oppose the seizure of Kosovo and Metohija because it would mean directly opposing his friends,” Nikolic told reporters in the parliament.

According to him, it is high time for the Serbian parliament to discuss Kosovo and Metohija, because the crisis “will last many years and will be exhausting,” which is why it is important “that those who would agree that it is time to end the crisis by accepting everything — are not ruling Serbia.”

Everything else is the matter of Russia's support, which is now the subject of a joust, said Nikolic, adding that “no one can break Russia led by Vladimir Putin, and that is our pillar.”

EU Out of Place in Trying to Impose its Will Upon the Country which is not its Member

When asked what would happen if the settlement of the status of Kosovo and Metohija would be transferred to the EU, Nikolic replied that the issue may not be transferred to the EU because, among other things, Serbia is not a member of the Union.

“Why should the EU discuss the situation in the state which is not its member,” asked Nikolic, concluding that Serbia does not have anyone within the EU who could protect her with any kind of a veto.

“For those who believe that they have destroyed militarily all other peoples in the world by NATO’s taking over even the United Nations political functions, I believe that the UN still exists, and for as long as it officially exists it may not hand over its competencies to international organizations at a lower instance,” said Nikolic.

Cartoon by Slawomir Luczynski (Poland)