The UN Security Council session on Kosovo and Metohija to be open to the public?
He pointed out that Serbia will be represented by President Aleksandar Vui. In these two days, we witnessed intense behind-the-scenes games and pressures within the Security Council for the Guyana presidency to schedule a closed session, says Dacic.
The extraordinary session of the UN Security Council on the situation in Kosovo and Metohija, at the request of Serbia, will be held on Thursday at 9 p.m. CET.
On Monday, Serbia submitted a request to the Mission of Guyana to convene an extraordinary session of the UN Security Council due to the situation in Kosovo and Metohija. Minister Dacic states that there was a lot of pressure for the session to be closed to the public.
"As for the procedure itself, we have witnessed in these two days fierce backroom games and pressures within the Security Council for the Guyana presidency to schedule a closed session," added Dacic.
"Western countries and countries coming from the EU are of the opinion that the session should be closed for reasons known only to them. In other words, we believe that it is for the reason that the entire world public would not hear what is happening in the area of Kosovo and Metohija and how lies could be spread", Dacic points out.
He says that this was a very difficult fight for us.
He explained that sessions can be closed and open to the public, as well as that both are official, and there are also private sessions.
He indicated that they justified the request for a closed session by the fact that it had happened before.
"It is true that it happened, but in the period from 2012 until today, we never agreed to closed sessions," Dacic added.
He stated that the president's cabinet and the ministry tried their best to exert influence through...
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