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UNITED NATIONS (AP) Russia complained Friday that NATO and the United Nations weren't doing enough to protect Kosovo's Serbs from ethnic Albanian attacks.
Russia, which holds this month's rotating presidency of the Security Council, made its criticisms in response to an attack in Kosovo Wednesday on a Serb convoy that was fleeing to neighboring Macedonia.
While part of the NATO-escorted convoy was traveling through the center of Pec, Kosovo's third-largest city, about 300 ethnic Albanians mobbed the Serbs, pulled people into the streets and set fire to 15 vehicles, said Bernard Miyet, the U.N. undersecretary-general for peacekeeping.
Dozens were forced to take refuge in an Italian military garrison, and 18 Serbs were injured, NATO said.
Miyet told the council the attack happened after the convoy split up and 15 cars got lost in Pec's center. They were caught in a traffic jam when they were surrounded, Western diplomats.
NATO and the United Nations promised to track down the attackers and bring them to justice.
But Russia's U.N. ambassador, Sergey Lavrov, said his government wasn't satisfied. Russia has strong religious and cultural ties to Yugoslavia's Serbs.
''What troubles us is the broad picture that Serbs are fleeing Kosovo, and this is taken for granted,'' Lavrov said.
He accused the U.N. mission and the NATO force, known as KFOR, of ''presiding over'' the Serb exodus. Since NATO peacekeepers took control of Kosovo in June, ethnic Albanians have launched attacks in revenge for the 18 months of violence they endured by Serb militias under Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic.
''They say nobody can guarantee 100 percent security, but we don't speak 100 percent security. We speak of adequate security and it's not there,'' Lavrov said.
During the council debate, the United States condemned the attack and thanked the NATO troops for their escort of the convoy. But China said the attack indicated NATO wasn't doing enough to ensure security, Western diplomats said.
The Netherlands, which had 23 soldiers in the convoy, said the ethnic Albanians owed the international community an explanation, and stressed that it was impossible to guarantee the security of ethnic minorities.