Drecun: UNSCR 1244 is still alive

BELGRADE - The opportunity for Serbia to present the facts and explain the dramatic nature of the situation in Kosovo-Metohija is where the greatest significance of Thursday's UN Security Council session lies, says Milovan Drecun, outgoing head of the Serbian parliamentary committee on Kosovo-Metohija.

Speaking to Tanjug on Friday, Drecun said Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic had very wisely taken the opportunity to use arguments to point out the harmfulness of Pristina's unilateral moves.

He said the holding of the session was a great success because it had demonstrated that UNSCR 1244 was still alive and that the Kosovo-Metohija issue had returned to the UN.

"In view of the years of attempts by leading Western countries to get discussions about Kosovo-Metohija completely out of the UN and abolish reports by the UN secretary general on the situation in...