Pressures and Blackmail Continue
Twenty-seven years have passed since the adoption of the UN Security Council Resolution 1244 (10 June 1999). Serbia has fulfilled all of its obligations under this legally binding document. Other actors still have not fulfilled their stipulated obligations toward Serbia and the Serbs.
Violence against Serbs in Kosovo and Metohija, ethnic cleansing, and the usurpation of their property continue and, in recent times, have intensified, taking on a systematic character. The desecration, destruction, and usurpation of religious and cultural-historical monuments continue with the tacit approval of the international community. Around 250,000 Serbs have been expelled and other non-Albanians are still prevented from exercising their right to a free, safe, and dignified return. The provision on the return of agreed contingents of the Army and Police of Serbia has not been implemented, including their deployment at the most important international border crossings. The EU is blackmailing Serbia by demanding that it renounce its right to sovereignty and territorial integrity, abandons the rights guaranteed by the Resolution 1244, and recognize the criminal creation of the so-called Republic of Kosovo, only then obtaining a chance for membership in the EU. Negotiating Chapter 35 is a proof of this blackmail and disregard for UNSC Resolution 1244. Certain countries are arming, equipping, and creating the armed forces of the so-called Kosovo, pushing it into certain military alliances, thereby also directly violating Resolution 1244.
NATO and EU member states were the first to recognize the illegal unilateral secession of Kosovo and Metohija and thereby once again grossly violated the fundamental principles of the UN Charter and the UN Security Council Resolution 1244. However, five EU member states – Romania, Spain, Greece, Slovakia, and Cyprus, as well as the majority of UN member states, respect international law and Resolution 1244 and do not recognize the illegal creation, for which Serbia expresses its full appreciation. Leading EU and NATO countries have exerted and continue to exert unacceptable pressure on other countries to likewise recognize the illegal creation of the so-called Kosovo and its admission to certain international organizations.
Serbia pursues an opens, principled, and constructive policy, respects the UN Charter and international law, the sovereignty and territorial integrity of other countries, and has the right to demand that other states, including EU member states, respect its sovereignty and territorial integrity.
Although the UNSC Resolution 1244 is a comprehensive, universally binding international legal document of the highest legal authority and obliges all members of the world UN organization, the EU continuously exerts pressure for Serbia to accept another legally binding agreement which, in its essence, is contrary to UNSC Resolution 1244. This contradiction is reflected in the fact that the Resolution 1244 confirms the sovereignty and integrity of Serbia and autonomy for Kosovo and Metohija within Serbia, while leading EU member states demand that Serbia renounce its sovereignty and territorial integrity and recognize the illegal creation of the so-called Kosovo as a neighboring and independent state.
Such demands are arrogant, unlawful, coercive, contrary to the fundamental principles of international relations and are not acceptable. Serbia should fight for and demand that all UN member states respect UNSC Resolution 1244, that EU policy, including Negotiating Chapter 35, be aligned with that document, that all unimplemented provisions of the Resolution 1244 be respected and carried out, that no unlawful obligations be imposed on Serbia from any side, and that all measures, steps, and decisions that constitute a violation of or disregard for the provisions of the Resolution 1244 be declared null and void, and that matters related to Kosovo and Metohija be returned to their previous state.
