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A tolerant stand by the KFOR and UN Interim Administration Mission in Kosovo (UNMIK) toward terrorists in Kosovo and Metohija are unacceptable and in violation of UN Security Council Resolution 1244, Yugoslav Foreign Minister Zivadin Jovanovic said in an interview to the Norwegian daily Dagbladet.
In their presence in Kosovo and Metohija, "systematic and planned ethnic cleansing of Serbs and non-Albanians is under way under pressure of the terrorists," Jovanovic warned in the interview that focused on the situation in the southern Serbian province.
Questions also covered the NATO aggression on Yugoslavia, the Pact on stability in southeastern Europe, and the implementation of the Dayton accords.
Jovanovic told the Copenhagen daily that it was time for the essential implementation of UN and Security Council decisions to begin.
"Running away from obligations and the actual situation in Kosovo and Metohija is not conducive to peace and stability, it does not lead to anything good," he said.
"We demand that the UNMIK and KFOR carry out their mandate, their unconditional obligations stemming from the relevant Security Council resolution. They are obliged to guarantee security to all - in particular to those who are victims of systematic terror and persecution, and they are the Serbs," Jovanovic said.
It is cynical that those who allow the so-called Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA), an ethnic Albanian terrorist organization, to conduct ethnic cleansing, at the same time urge Serbs to remain in Kosovo and Metohija, the minister said.
Jovanovic pointed out the articles of the Belgrade peace document reached in talks between Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic and E.U. envoy, Finnish President Martti Ahtisaari, which preceded Yugoslavia's acceptance of Resolution 1244.
That document reaffirms guarantees for the sovereignty and territorial integrity of Yugoslavia and ensures the resolving of problems under the law, based on the UN Charter, and under auspices of the United Nations and the Security Council, he said.
Separatism was rejected as unacceptable and in violation of the UN Charter and Helsinki Final Act. It was also "eliminated through the order that the terrorist organization, the so-called KLA, is disarmed, as well as any other armed ethnic Albanian groups," Jovanovic said.
Yugoslavia has meanwhile carried out in full its obligations stemming from the UN resolution and the military-technical agreement, Jovanovic said.
"It is very disturbing that KFOR and UNMIK have not met their obligations" stemming from these two documents, he said.
Jovanovic warned against attempts by NATO leaders, having failed to destabilize and subject Yugoslavia with their aggression, "to preserve and even strengthen their alliance" with the terrorist so-called KLA, with the joint objective - ethnic cleansing and persecution of Serbs and the creation of a so-called "Greater Albania."
"There is a real need for Europe to revise its stands toward a European nation and a European country, like the Serb people and Yugoslavia. That would be better than to continue acting according to ready-made clich�s, which brings greater damage," said Jovanovic.
"Any actions, tactics or ideas openly or implicitly to support separatism in Kosovo and Metohija, alliances with terrorist and separatist organizations, are contrary to peace and stability. Not only that our interests are in question, but even the interests of the entire region," Jovanovic said.
The minister warned that "certain factors have an interest in constant destabilization.'"
Asked about the summit of the Pact on stability in southeastern Europe recently held in Sarajevo, in which Yugoslavia did not participate, Jovanovic said "Yugoslavia is an important factor in the development of southeastern Europe. That is why all plans, ideas or activities, genuinely aimed at the stabilization and development of the region necessarily require an equal treatment of Yugoslavia."
Jovanovic said "if there is a real strategy for stability, it necessarily requires fundamental changes in the current stands of the E.U. and other international factors toward the FR Yugoslavia."
Asked by Dagbladet about the implementation of the Dayton-Paris accords, Jovanovic said Yugoslavia, as the guarantor of that agreement, was deeply interested in the due and comprehensive implementation of that agreement.
"This primarily means full respect for the equality of the three constituent peoples and two entities in Bosnia-Herzegovina. We are resolutely against tendencies toward unitarianism or domination which are contrary to the objectives and the articles of the Dayton-Paris agreement," said Jovanovic.