Discussions on Kosovo becoming a member of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) prove that international law and the world order are in deep crisis, the Serbian ambassador to Russia said Tuesday. UNESCO is expected to vote on the matter during the organization’s general conference, which kicked off on Tuesday in Paris. On October 21, the majority of UNESCO’s executive board voted to recommend Kosovo becoming a full member state.

Terzic further said that Serbia’s cultural heritage has been consistently eroded by Kosovo Albanians for the past three centuries. “How can you pass the protection of cultural heritage to the people who destroyed almost our entire cultural heritage,” Terzic stressed, and added that Kosovo’s UNESCO membership was not only a legal or political matter, but a matter that affects the future of Serbia’s cultural heritage.

“It is weird to sign the SAA while Belgrade and Pristina are holding talks, as well as to open the discussion on Kosovo membership of UNESCO. I am afraid it may lead to the destabilization of the region,” Slavenko Terzic said.