Last night, the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) once again refused to discuss the NATO bombing of Yugoslavia, since not enough members of that body voted for the proposed agenda.
As at the UN Security Council session on March 25, and at yesterday's session, rescheduled at Russia's request, France requested a so-called procedural vote on the agenda.
Last night, six of the 1999 members of the Security Council voted for the agenda, that is, the discussion on the NATO bombing of Yugoslavia in 15, while the other nine abstained. Nine votes were needed to approve the agenda.
At the session that began on March 25, three members of the UN Security Council - Russia, China and Algeria - voted in favor of discussing the topic, while 12 abstained.
The representatives of France and Russia also last night, before the vote, expressed opposing views on the need to discuss the NATO military operation against Yugoslavia.
French Ambassador Nicolas de Riviere reiterated that the UN Security Council deals with current crises in the field of international security and that "it is not a forum for discussions on historical issues".
"As I said in the presence of the permanent representative of Serbia and the representative of Kosovo, the UNSC is at all times very open to discussing Kosovo, the UN Mission in Kosovo (UNMIK), the implementation of Resolution 1244 of the UNSC, as was the case last month, when President (Serbia Aleksandar) Vučić was here. He is always welcome," De Rivie said.
He added that next month a new regular session of the UN Security Council will be held on the situation in Kosovo, that is, on the work of UNMIK, and that the role of that body "is not to replace historians and lawyers".
The representative of Russia said that two days ago that country organized consultations regarding the request to discuss the NATO bombing last night and that "the very weak response of the heads of missions (of Western countries) clearly shows the level of their real interest in solving the problem that they themselves created ".
"Even today we see that the USA, France and Great Britain do not want the UN Security Council to discuss the very inconvenient issue of NATO aggression against a sovereign country. Do not try to hide behind an unconvincing position about the historical nature of this issue, because the Security Council is actively considering the situation in Kosovo and implementation, although it is better to say, non-implementation of Resolution 1244", said the Russian diplomat.
He added that it is not a historical issue because the situation in Kosovo is "suddenly deteriorating".
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