Belgrade: The Serbian Foreign Minister – Vuk Jeremic has called on the UN Security Council to discipline UNMIK Political Director Jolio Nagele for allwing Kosovo Foreign Minister Skender Hyseni to speak at the South-East Europe Cooperation Process summit.

According to Jeremic, Nagele had breached the summit’s rules of procedures and the instructions of the United Nations.

The foreign minister pointed out, “The UN’s explicit instructions were that UNMIK representatives had no right to allow officials from Priština’s temporary institutions to take the floor.”

He stated 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.

Jeremic said, “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.” 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,” the Serbian Foreign Minister said.