Mr. President,
We welcome the participation of First Vice Prime-Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs of Serbia Ivica Dačić. We share the concerns about the state of affairs in Kosovo expressed by the distinguished Minister.
We also thank Special Representative of the Secretary-General, Head of the UN Interim Administration Mission in Kosovo (UNMIK) Zahir Tanin for a substantive briefing on the situation in the Province. In general, we share the assessments contained therein. We thank Under-Secretary-General for Legal Affairs Miguel Soares for his comments. It was with great attention that we listened to the speech by Ms. Vlora Çitaku. Frankly speaking, there is nothing we can thank her for, but eloquent lies, insinuations and hatred-inciting racist historical fantasies that are not worth being said in the Security Council Chamber. This is what came instead of apologies for banditism of her compatriots, though apologies is something many of us basically expected.
See the full statement at: http://russiaun.ru/en/news/unmik_100619
