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NEW YORK - Yugoslavia has lodged a strong protest to the chairman of the U.N. Security Council because of the latest terorist attack on a convoy of Serbian refugees from Orahovac who were, allegedly, protected by KFOR forces.
The letter of protest, addressed to Security Council chairman, Russian Ambassador Sergei Lavrov, points out that the manner in which a large group of 1,500 people carried out the brutal attack indicates that there is evidence that the terrorists were once again in collusion with representatives of the U.N. mission, who, apparently, knew ahead of time the exact time and place of passage of the convoy.
Reponsibility for the latest crime, rests undoubtedly with the U.N. civilian mission which persistently refuses to implement its mandate of creating a security environment for all residents of Kosovo and Metohija, as defined by Security Council Resolution 1244.
Responsibility, the letter further said, also rests with Security Council members who, in their smugness, have undertaken the task to create security conditions in a part of the territory of a sovereign state, but have demonstrated that they are incapable of realizing that. Also responsible is the special envoy of U.N. secretary general for Kosovo-Metohija, Bernard Kouchner.
The Yugoslav federal government, Jovanovic recalled, has repeatedly warned the Security Council and brought to the attention of other international organizations, the exceptionally difficult situation of around 4,000 Serbs in Orahovac, mostly women and children, beseiged by "KLA" terrorists. Unfortunatey, KFOR forces continued to ignore terrorist activities aimed at completing the ethnic cleansing of Orahovac.
The letter warned that the presence of a large number of armed "KLA" terrorists in the surroundings of Orahovac, and the attack on the convoy of Serbian refugees, are conclusive evidence that "KLA" terrorists have not been disarmed. The farse of the so-called "demilitarization" was intended to dupe the public, while the real objective was a has remained that the "KLA" be transformed into a legal and organized military structure that would later become an army of ethnic Albanians in Kosovo.
The protest also pointed to the double standrads of the U.N. mission in Kosovo-Metohija and called on the Security Council to use its authority to determine the responsibility for the deterioration of the security situation, and then to take appropriate steps.