Belgrade: Serbia’s Kosovo Ministry yesterday dispatched to the Security Council, its official response to UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s report. In its response, Kosovo Ministry criticized UNMIK and the failure to react to Kosovo’s unilateral independence declaration.

According to the Kosovo Ministry, the document was Serbia’s official response to the secretary-general’s report on UNMIK’s work. The Security Council will review UNMIK’s regular quarterly report on April 21.

Kosovo Ministry documented, “it is gravely concerned by the fact that no UN (UNMIK) response was forthcoming following the province of Kosovo’s unilateral independence declaration, and that Belgrade had expected UN representatives in Kosovo to annul this illegal act.”

The document articulated, “We draw attention to the fact that the Report only mentions the unilateral declaration of independence, and only confirms ‘the new reality on the ground.’ The Report does not mention Serbia’s demands or her arguments that this ‘new reality’ is the product of a violation of Resolution 1244,”

The report said, the groundwork for the Martti Ahtisaari Plan and “supervised independence” is being laid with the countenance of UNMIK representatives, and that that plan “was neither assessed nor accepted in the UN Security Council.”

Saying that Serbia considers it completely unacceptable for UNMIK to act on the basis of respecting the circumstances brought about by the unilateral independence declaration, the Kosovo Ministry document articulated, “Serbia demands the renewal of UNMIK’s initial mandate in line with Resolution 1244.”

Thru the document, the Kosovo Ministry asked the UN to annul the illegal act, and that Serbia offered UNMIK a draft agreement for joint application of Resolution 1244 following the illegal declaration of independence.

The Kosovo Ministry report also formulated a response to UNMIK Chief Joachim Ruecker’s technical progress analysis of the implementation of standards in Kosovo. The document stated that Ruecker “only mentions the unilateral independence declaration and only confirms that a ‘new reality’ exists,” but neglects to include “an appraisal or reaction to this illegal act.”

According to the Serbian document, Ruecker’s report states that the decisions and acts of both UNMIK and the temporary institutions are being carried out in line with the Ahtisaari Plan, but fails to mention when and on what grounds UNMIK’s mandate was altered. The international representatives in Kosovo are not cooperating with the Hague Tribunal, and that they have not assisted in collecting evidence of crimes committed against Serbs.

Serbian  response was put together in collaboration with the Foreign Ministry and sent to the UN Security Council which will review the report at its session on April 21, the session that will be attended by President Boris Tadic, who is expected to speak there with U.S and Russian ambassadors Zalmay Khalilzad and Vitalz Churkin, as well as with other Security Council member-state ambassadors.