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NEW YORK -- Head of the Yugoslav permanent mission to the UN Vladislav Jovanovic has addresed a strong protest letter to the UN Security Council President Peter Van Walsum on the conclusion of the illegal agreement between the UN security and civilian mission - KFOR and UNMIK - with the terrorist self-styled KLA. A copy of the letter was also addressed to the UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan.
"I have been instructed by my Government to lodge the strongest protest over the signing of the illegal Agreement between the United Nations security and civil presences in Kosovo and Metohija, the autonomous province of the Yugoslav constituent Republic of Serbia, and the so-called Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA) on the transformation of that terrorist organization into the "Kosovo Preotection Corps", an allegedly civilian structure, and the statements made in that connection by KFOR and UNMIK to the effect that the KLA terrorists have carried out their obligation to demilitarize and disarm fully and on schedule. The falsehood of those statements is shown by daily attacks on Serbian towns and villages and cultural monuments and religous shrines that are often carried out by mortars and other heavy weapons." the letter said.
"Proceeding from the fact that it has carried out all its obligations from Security Council resolution 1244 (1999) and the relevant documents consistently and on schedule, the Government of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia demands from the Security Council to take the most energetic measures to see to it that all others carry out their commitments. First and foremost, the KLA terrorists must be made to disarm themselves and must not be allowed to flout their obligations in whatever form.
To that end, the Governement of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia insists in particualr that the illegal decision on the alleged transformation of the so-called Kosovo Liberation Army and all other decisions taken by KFOR and UNMIK in flagrant violation of Security Council resolution 1244 (1999) and the relevant documents, primarily those violating the sovereignty and territorial integrity of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, be annulled" it was concluded in the letter.