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Serbia demands disciplinary action against UNMIK official
22 May 2008 | 09:49 | Source: B92

BELGRADE -- Vuk Jeremic has called on the UN Security Council to discipline 
UNMIK Political Director Jolio Nagele.

The reason that the foreign minister is asking for disciplinary measures to
be taken is that Nagele allowed Kosovo Foreign Minister Skender Hyseni to
speak at the South-East Europe Cooperation Process summit.

Jeremic told B92 that Nagele had breached the summit's rules of procedures
and the instructions of the United Nations.

"The UN's explicit instructions were that UNMIK representatives had no right
to allow officials from Pristina's temporary institutions to take the
floor," the foreign minister stressed.

He added that yesterday's summit had been very important for Serbia, for the
country to show its teeth, and use its full institutional capacity by
vetoing the final declaration that was not in accordance with Serbia's
policy.

"The language Serbia insisted on was the following-the countries of
South-East Europe do not have a united position regarding the Kosovo
problem. That means that Kosovo is not a South-East European country, we
insisted on that, and that the countries of South-East Europe can have one
view or another," Jeremic said.

He said that this was "simply the reality of the Kosovo question."

"The language we insisted on was telling in the end, because the declaration
that was adopted at presidential level, after my veto at ministerial level,
was an explicitly written international document stating that Kosovo was not
a country. That is a diplomatic triumph," Jeremic said.

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