Punish anti-Serb policing in Kosovo – Russia

Top UN ambassadors are mulling over a report which concluded an international 
police force used brutality against Kosovo Serbs in March of this year. Russia 
says disciplinary measures should be taken against people responsible for the 
incident. 

The United Nations inquiry found that the police action to end a Serb protest 
was unwarranted. 

On March 17, an UN police unit stormed a court house which had been occupied by 
Kosovo Serbs, leaving one dead and dozens injured.

Moscow wants the UN Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon to get involved. Russian 
Ambassador to the UN Vitaly Churkin told the Security Council the Secretary 
General should consider disciplinary measures against the people responsible 
for the brutality. 

“There was a discussion around the table. Unfortunately, some members of the 
Council weren’t prepared to accept that the president of the Council should 
directly deliver this message of personal responsibility to the Secretary 
General. However, we agreed that the president of the Council will deliver the 
concerns, expressed during the meeting, to the Secretary General,” he said.

The Security Council meeting was held behind closed doors in New York.


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