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Serbia calls for the convening of an emergency session of the United Nations Security Council following the decision of the Kosovo Parliament to transform the security forces into a regular army. According to Radio Svoboda correspondent, Serbian President Alexander Vuchich said this in a statement to citizens on the evening of 14 December.
An instructor pointed out that Serbia was able to protect Kosovo Serbs without specifying the meaning of protection.
The Serbian President confirmed, that "it is absolutely clear" that the decision of the Kosovo Parliament was approved with the consent of the United States of America, Great Britain and the United States. l & # 39; Germany. Vuchich met with the units of the Serbian armed forces in the south of the country on December 14 and explained to them their tasks.
Before speaking on television, Vuchich received the Russian ambassador to Belgrade, Alexander Chepourin, who said he had sent messages to the Serbian president in Moscow.
The spokesman for the Kosovo Peacekeeping Force (KFOR), Vincenzo Grasso, said that these forces guarantee security and protect all citizens. According to him, the North Atlantic Alliance will draw the conclusions that are binding on the decision of the Kosovo Parliament.
On 14 December, the Kosovo Parliament approved a law on the creation of a full-fledged army, despite the protests of Serbia, an autonomous province until 2008. The vote on the transformation of forces emergency intervention in a professional army was almost unanimous, boycotted by legislators representing a Serbian minority of 120,000 people (the total population of Kosovo, according to estimates, would be 1 million 920,000 people in 2017).
The United States supports Kosovo's actions, while at the same time trying to calm the opposition to the creation of the army, stressing that this process will last "many years".
Belgrade and the Serbian ethnic group of Kosovo strongly oppose the creation of the Kosovo army, calling it a violation. UN resolution. They fear that this measure will be used against the Serbian minority in the country. Authorities in the Kosovo capital, Pristina, deny such intentions.
NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg called the decision of the Kosovo Parliament untimely.
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