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MOSCOW -- Russia's U.N. ambassador Sergei Lavrov has warned the U.N. Security Council that a threat to the security of the population of Kosovo and Metohija is constantly growing.
Speaking at a session of the Security Council late Monday upon returning from a several-day visit to Yugoslavia, Lavrov said that there was growing evidence that incidents occurring in the Yugoslav republic of Serbia's southern province were the result of organised activity aimed at expelling all non-Albanians, not only Serbs, from the province.
The session dealt with the situation in Bosnia-Herzegovina.
Russian media quoted Lavrov as saying that the main cause of such a state of affairs in Kosovo and Metohija was a failure by the U.N. peacekeeping force KFOR and the U.N. civilian mission to Kosovo and Metohija (UNMIK) to put an end to provocative actions and activity aimed at undermining Security Council Resolution 1244 and to provide the necessary level of security to all, although they were taking all vital measures.
He said that uncontrolled activity by those referred to locally as elements of what was until recently ethnic Albanian terrorist organisation calling itself Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA), including attacks on villages with heavy weaponry, the torching of churches and other acts of intimidation, continued.
He said the leadership of the international military and civilian presences must fully use their power to prevent developments threathening the authority of all powerful international structures governing Kosovo and Metohija at this point.