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BELGRADE -- The U.N. Security Council resolution on Kosovo and Metohija and the Group of Eight position on a peaceful settlement for Serbia's southern province, adopted three months ago, are still a dead letter, which is reflected in the daily expulsion and killing of non-Albanians and violence by ethnic Albanian terrorists who have even started targeting the U.N. peacekeeping force KFOR.
Headlines carried by world media, like Voice of Russia's 'The Violation of U.N. Resolution' and 'Language Chauvinism' by Vienna's Der Standard newspaper, speak eloquently enough of what is really happening in Kosovo and Metohija.
Although the Security Council resolution envisages the preservation of multi-ethnic Kosovo and Metohija and the return of all refugees, regardless of their ethnic origin, more than 200,000 Serbs, Montenegrins, Romanies and ethnic Turks have left the province over the past three months.
While non-Albanians are leaving the province, ethnic Albanians returning from Albania are seizing Serb houses and flats.
The U.N. peacekeeping mission has left the Yugoslav border with Macedonia and Albania unguarded, despite its pledges that there will be no vacuum following the pullout of Yugoslav army troops and Serbian police.
Consequently, about 100,000 Albanians, a large number of mobsters and criminals included, have arrived in the province over the past three months.
Also, KFOR has failed to restore law and order to Kosovo and Metohija although it has assumed an obligation to do so and was preparing for months for the operation. Only 500 U.N. policemen have arrived in the province of the 3,000 that are to be deployed. Many of them are not even trained for such a delicate job.
KFOR has also been deployed in smaller numbers than planned - 20,000 more are yet to be deployed.