Yugoslavia's ambassador to UN, Vladislav Jovanovic

New York, 1 July - FR of Yugoslavia has again drawn the UN Security Council's attention to the responsibility and blame for the tidal wave of terrorism in Kosovo and Metohija which is not abating, and by which false picture and claims of UN's mission about its alleged successful operation in Serbian province are refuted.

Chief of mission of FR of Yugoslavia to UN, ambassador Vladislav Jovanovic in his latest letter sent last night to the President of Security Council, French ambassador Jean David Levitte pointed out that incontrovertible fact that KFOR and UNMIK's missions have not done their jobs, nor mandate which was given to them under Resolution 1244.

The letter was forwarded and to UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan.

At the beginning of the letter, Jovanovic emphasizes that FR of Yugoslavia with the latest turning to the Security Council brings the attention to that body of UN, responsible for implementing Resolution 1244, on escalation of terrorism and violence in southern province of Yugoslav constituent Republic of Serbia.

At the same time, and other forms of criminal acts of so-called KLA are increased, through pressures and harassments, which terrorists are carrying out against Serbs and other non-Albanian population. Terrorists are strengthening that kind of tactics, especially in the areas from which a large number of non-Albanian population have already been expelled.

And indescribable monstrous killings of people on the doorstep of their homes or in the field during agricultural works are brutal, Jovanovic points out in an accusing tone. Terrorists are stealing livestock from people and cause other damages in order to endanger their economic establishment, and all of that is aimed at forcing the Serbs and other non-Albanian population to leave their ancestral homes and to leave Kosovo and Metohija.

KFOR and UNMIK have failed to create minimum-security conditions for Serbs and other non-Albanians. Their freedom of movement is extremely limited in which way they are denied the basic preconditions for the exercise of any other right, critically said Yugoslav ambassador.

Jovanovic then points out to the Security Council the fact that members of UN mission, in the past two months, haven't solved no case of terrorist attack, nor perpetrator was apprehended. No instigator or organizer of terrorist attacks on non-Albanian population has been discovered. Instead of that, KFOR and UNMIK blockade Serbian and non-Albanian enclaves and in that way disrupt communications between people, arrest Serbs only on false reports of Albanians, often seizing them from hospital beds, and even open fire on frightened and exasperated Serbs protesting their situation.

Terrorists don't have mercy toward nothing, and so towards holy places, orthodox churches and monasteries, stressed Jovanovic in the letter, quoting the fact about 100 orthodox churches, monasteries and cultural monuments which terrorists destroyed, burned or looted. Brutal act of that unprecedented vandalism was the attack on Decani monastery, which happened in the night between 21 and 22 of June, it is said in the Yugoslav ambassador's letter.

In spite of those irrefutable proofs about terrorists' crimes, reports are written to the Security Council about allegedly success of UN mission in Kosovo and Metohija, accusingly points out ambassador Jovanovic.

How false are claims about that so-called "success" of UN mission, Jovanovic points out to the president of Security Council through directly opposing of facts, against lies: "It is claimed in reports that terrorist so-called KLA has been demilitarized and disarmed, and at the same time large caches of heavy weapons of terrorists like the one in the village of Klecka, are being discovered or when a fierce mortar attack on the Decani monastery is being carried out. It is also claimed that security is being improved, and facts are saying that Albanian extremists step up their terrorist activities aimed at completing the ethnic cleansing of the remaining Serbs and non-Albanians. In addition to all of that, it is evident that the calls of the leaders of ethnic Albanians to tolerance are only empty and simple phrases".

The escalation of violence and atrocities in Kosovo and Metohija are taking place at the time when the Security Council is debating and deciding the future of the presence of UN in Kosovo and Metohija, Yugoslav ambassador warns about incompatible coincidence.

In the letter to the Security Council, position of FR of Yugoslavia is being presented about unacceptability of organizing local elections in Kosovo and Metohija, in the circumstances in which there are no basic conditions for their holding. As one of the important index of non-existence of needed conditions for holding elections, ambassador Jovanovic quotes the fact that the basic thing hasn't been accomplished - consistent implementing of Resolution 1244 which Security Council brought and for which exactly that body of UN is responsible.

Ambassador Jovanovic added and rather long list of horrible crimes, murders, kidnapping, torturing and other kinds of violence which terrorists from so-called KLA carried out in the last two months. Rather long list with precisely stated names of people on who different crimes were committed, is irrefutable confirmation of all positions and evaluations which FR of Yugoslavia pointed out to that body of UN and through the latest warning letter to Security Council.

At the end of the letter, ambassador Vladislav Jovanovic again sent the critique and protest to the Security Council because he wasn't allowed to speak at the recent session of the Council.

In spite of the difficult situation in Kosovo and Metohija, Security Council didn't take any measures to prevent and stop tragic and dangerous condition in the southern Serbian province, Jovanovic emphasized at the end of the letter.