By Matthew Russell Lee
UNITED NATIONS, November 12 -- While the UN's reports on Kosovo and the resulting public Security Council sessions, 18 speeches and out, have become routinized, there are still interesting factoids which emerge. In the meeting of November 12, Serbian Foreign Minister Vuk Jeremic complained that in late September
“armed teams of ethnic Albanians brought down Serbia Telecom's mobile and fixed telephony network in South Kosovo... immediately affect[ing] approximately 100,000 South Kosovo Serbs, disrupting their ability to communicate beyond their enclaves - a serious breach of contemporary humanitarian norms... with hospital officials in Gracanica ascribing several fatalities to the inability of patients to call for help.”
When the meeting was over, Inner City Press asked Jeremic to go to the stakeout area on camera and take questions on this and other matters. He declined, indicating that the session was routine.
When another journalist asked him to respond to the charge by US Deputy Permanent Representative Rosemany DiCarlo that Serbia is calling for boycotting elections in Kosovo, he quipped, how can one call for a boycott of a country which doesn't exist?
DiCarlo, on the other hand, said that 71 countries have now recognized Kosovo, and that its sovereignty and borders can no longer be questioned.
Kosovo's representative Vlora Citaku said these are no longer the subject of negotiation.
One wonders if South Sudan will go this way. Watch this site.
