International Community grossly violates Resolution 1244

Police checkpoint near Bujanovac

Leposavic, November 20 (Tanjug) - Heads of four municipal assemblies in Kosovo and Metohija sent a letter on Monday to Yugoslav President Vojislav Kostunica, Prime Minister Zoran Zizic, and Serbian transitional government head Milomir Minic, underscoring that the International Community grossly violates the UN Security Council Resolution 1244 in the southern Serbian province.

"Gross violation of Resolution 1244 by the International Community, represented by Bernard Kouchner and his associates, continues in Kosovo and Metohija, where the Serbian population is suffering administrative terror, in addition to the physical one", it is said in the letter.

The letter was signed by mayors Nikola Radovic of Kosovska Mitrovica, Dragan Jablanovic of Leposavic, Miomir Ignjatovic of Zvecan, and Srdjan Vulovic of Zubin Potok. "Local elections were organized for ethnic Albanians despite the fact that there were no elementary rights, safety or security for Serbs and the expulsion of over 300,000 non-Albanians from Kosovo and Metohija", said the letter.

These elections are "null and illegitimate under all democratic norms, since there were no conditions for the participation of Serbs," the mayors said, underscoring that the elementary conditions are "security, freedom of movement, and the return of expelled persons to their homes."

"The situation in Kosovo and Metohija has become even more difficult after these elections, and there is a strategy aimed at expelling the Serbs, preventing them from returning home and creating independent Kosovo", it is said in the letter.