BELGRADE, March 18 (Hina) - Serbia's government on Thursday reported that it expected the UN Security Council to take concrete measures so as to defuse the situation and restore international control over Kosovo, and that it would use
all political and diplomatic means in a bid to find a political solution to the situation in Kosovo and ensure the full territorial autonomy of Kosovo Serbs.
BELGRADE, March 18 (Hina) - Serbia's government on Thursday reported
that it expected the UN Security Council to take concrete measures so
as to defuse the situation and restore international control over
Kosovo, and that it would use all political and diplomatic means in a
bid to find a political solution to the situation in Kosovo and ensure
the full territorial autonomy of Kosovo Serbs.#L#
Serbian Premier Vojislav Kostunica, who held an extraordinary news
conference in Belgrade on Thursday, described violence in Kosovo as
"an attempt of pogrom and ethnic cleansing of Serbs in Kosovo" and a
humanitarian disaster.
Kostunica accused the international forces in Kosovo (the UN-led
KFOR) of having taken care more about itself than about the situation
in the area for the last few years, despite warnings from Belgrade.
The premier voiced regret at the violence which erupted during
demonstrations in the streets of Serbian cities and the demolition of
mosques in Belgrade and Nis, and appealed to protesters not to resort
to violence as "the upshot of every violence is violence".
(Hina) ms sb