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NEW YORK -- Yugoslavia's priority is the full and due implementation of U.N. Security Council Resolution 1244 on Kosovo and Metohija, Yugoslav Foreign Minister Zivadin Jovanovic told CNN on Tuesday.
In an interview to the U.S. television network, Jovanovic spoke about violations of this document, and the bypassing of obligations by the international forces to disarm the ethnic Albanian terrorist organization that calls itself the Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA), and other bands of ethnic Albanians.
The terrorist KLA is practically taken under protection, which is a gross violation of the unequivocal obligation of the international force KFOR and civilian mission UNMIK, Jovanovic said, adding that the international organs also fail to guarantee security for all citizens in Serbia's southern province.
The other clear obligation - acceptance of the return of Yugoslav army and police contingents to Kosovo and Metohija - is also being avoided, Jovanovic said.
Such a stand has resulted in stepped up terrorism following the arrival of the KFOR and UNMIK, greater violence and chaos, and ethnic cleansing, he said.
Speaking about the disarming of the so-called KLA, Jovanovic said the KFOR and UNMIK's behaviour is absolutely unacceptable, as the alleged tranformation of the KLA in fact shows a plan to organize the terrorists, give partial legitimacy to their organization, to preserve it as a destabilization force in the Balkans, and also to meet the needs and objectives of NATO.
This is a fascist philosophy of an ethnically pure Kosovo and Metohija, which has nothing to do with multi-ethnic Kosovo and Metohija, Jovanovic said.
As a sovereign country, Yugoslavia will never recognize actions or decisions which are in violation of Resolution 1244, Jovanovic told the CNN.
Jovanovic is in New York for the 54th session of the United Nations General Assembly.