Pristina’s representatives “continue to pile on the (UN Security) Council falsehoods and lies and have lately engaged in outright propagandizing.”
This is what Serbian Foreign Minister Ivica Dacic told the Council late on Thursday European time, as it convened to consider UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s latest report on the work of the UN mission, UNMIK, in Kosovo.
Dacic stressed that ethnic Albanians were implementing a nationalist policy aimed at unifying into one state all the territories where they are a majority.
Anticipating that Pristina’s representative at the meeting “will, presumably speak about genocide and ethnic cleansing again,” Dacic described it as “just another propaganda exercise and a lie,” and added:
“The basic definition of genocide, war crimes and ethnic cleansing is a destruction or expulsion of population. Serbia’s representatives are on record of stating, million upon million of times, that each and every crime should be punished; yet, history does not record a ‘genocide’ after which members of the people which allegedly committed a genocide are ten times less in number than before, while the number of the people against which the genocide has allegedly been committed is substantially higher than before.”
In his address, the Serbian minister also noted that Pristina, a town where 43,000 Serbs lived in 1981, 20 years later has 430.
“One hundred times less, ladies and gentlemen! In 1981, 140,043 Albanians lived in this city and in 2011, 194,953. Now then, is it a genocide, crime or ethnic cleansing of Albanians? In 1981, 18,285 Serbs lived at Urosevac, in 2011, 32, six hundred times less. In 1981, 17,791 Serbs and Montenegrins lived in Pec, in 2011, 332,” he said.
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