The United Nation Security Council Resolution 1244 was never abolished, what means that it is still valid. This means that Kosovo is part of Serbia, and this is not negotiable. Of course, Kosovo could have a special status, but according to the UN resolution it is part of Serbia.

The thing is quite simple, says former commander of French special forces, which were part of KFOR, Jacques Ogar, who presented his book ‘Europe has died in Pristina’ at recently closed Book Fair in Belgrade. After a long term military carrier of a parachutist in the French Foreign Legion and experience in conflicts in Africa, colonel Ogar arrived to Kosovo and Metohija in 1999. His units were engaged in northern Kosovo and thanks to him Serbian civilians and monasteries there, were saved from Kosovo Liberation Army in 1999. Ogar couldn’t accept that ‘with assistance of western democracies an aggressive corrupted Muslim state has been created in the heart of Europe’, which led him to leave the army upon his return from Kosovo in 2000. His book is not only about Kosovo experience, but also about NATO preparations in FYR Macedonia ahead of the bombing of former Federal Republic of Yugoslavia and before the introduction of the UN protectorate in Kosovo and Metohija.

When asked why KFOR didn’t fulfill its mandate in line with the UNSC Resolution 1244, back in 1999, and protect inhabitants of Kosovo and Metohija, Ograr replied that ‘Americans and NATO never had an intention to implement this resolution and that their only task was to enable departure of Serbs and make the ethnic cleansing easier for the benefit of Albanians’. According to him, KFOR’s task following the unilateral declaration of independence of Kosovo is to ‘protect the so called independence’.