Jovanovic: The issue of Kosovo at the UN Security Council confirms the existence of Resolution 1244

Former FRY ambassador to the United Nations, Vladislav Jovanovic, tells Kosovo Online that it is important for Serbia that the issue of Kosovo remains on the Security Council agenda, even if only twice a year, as this keeps two facts alive: that Resolution 1244 exists both formally and substantively, and that a United Nations mission, namely UNMIK, exists in Kosovo.

"Insisting on the existence of the Resolution, as well as on the presence of UNMIK, no matter how weakened it may be and limited to just biannual reporting, bothers the Western powers that created so-called Kosovo as a state, because it continuously puts them in the 'defendant's seat,' reminding them that they acted unlawfully. The legal basis remains what the United Nations established: the Resolution, along with UN guardianship over Kosovo and Metohija. Everything else created by the Western powers is unilateral and unlawful from the standpoint of fundamental UN facts. And it is essential to maintain this, as time is the best judge or healer, as one poet said. It will correct the 'twisted rivers' the West has created over time, as well as what it continues to do regarding Kosovo," Jovanovic states.

He adds that the Western powers never made an effort to implement the provisions of Resolution 1244 that pertain to the Serbian side.

"The parts related to the Albanian side were implemented swiftly, and the Resolution was even exceeded to the point of arming the Albanian part of Kosovo and Metohija, which has no basis in the Resolution. It is even hinted that Kosovo, as a so-called state, could join NATO," Jovanovic points out.

He believes that the latest report by UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres comes at a particularly significant moment, as the interests of major powers have sharply clashed on numerous other issues, with the Kosovo question being only one of the unresolved points where, as he puts it, not all political accounts among major powers have been settled.

"These reports are generally of a broad nature because, after the proclamation of the so-called state of Kosovo, Western powers practically usurped the United Nations' authority, creating a new reality not envisaged by Resolution 1244. This authority belongs exclusively to the United Nations, which was entrusted with guardianship over that territory until a political solution is found, and they are the only ones who can act there legitimately, both politically and legally," Jovanovic emphasizes.