Jovanovic: The importance of Resolution 1244 must be reaffirmed

Former Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia Zivadin Jovanovic says for Kosovo Online that, regarding Serbia's interests related to Kosovo, the UN Security Council's Resolution 1244 is the most valuable document whose strength must be preserved and whose significance must be reaffirmed.

“It represents the power of the most important body for issues of peace and security on the planet, the Security Council. Resolutions, in general, are acts of the highest legal authority in the global legal order. Resolution 1244 is the most important legal basis for defending Serbia's essential national and state interests related to the province of Kosovo and Metohija. It is not ideal or idealistic, but it is the best document whose strength we must protect. In new circumstances, this resolution gains even greater significance because it was adopted in a system of global relations within a unipolar system and is being implemented in a multipolar world order. For this new phase of implementing Resolution 1244, we must have an active role and work with full strength,” Jovanovic says.

He points out that Russia and China have frequently reaffirmed their principled stance that Serbia’s sovereignty and territorial integrity are inviolable and that they support Serbia in every respect, which includes preserving that sovereignty and territorial integrity.

“China and Russia firmly maintain that any solution must be within the framework and based on Resolution 1244, and that no pressure or blackmail can have greater force than the power of the most important legal document that binds all United Nations members,” Jovanovic says.

He emphasizes that, while the Serbian authority is temporarily not present in Kosovo, no one can take away from Serbia the cradle of its existence, statehood, spirituality, and national and spiritual identity.

“We cannot even imagine that anyone would do anything contrary to preserving this deed of Serbian survival in the Balkans,” our interlocutor concludes.