inner city press also covered today's sessions Kosovo came up again and again in the debate, and then afterwards at the Press stakeout. Churkin said that while NATO had bombed Serbian television, Russia has not bombed Georgian TV, despite its content. (The reference may also have been to Rwanda's Radio Television Milles Collines, the poster child of ethnic hatred media that was also never bombed, but whose officials were later indicted and convicted by the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda.) At the stakeout, Inner City Press asked Amb. Wolff about Churkin's argument, and Wolff called it specious. Inner City Press pointed out that several Security Council resolutions about Kosovo had referred to Serbia's territorial integrity, before that integrity was dismissed earlier this year. Wolff responded that Serbian territorial integrity was surrendered earlier, with Russia's approval, when resolutions were passed calling for the withdrawal of Serbian military forces from Kosovo, and turning over authority in Kosovo to the United Nations. Video here. When Inner City Press asked Churkin to respond, he said that it was the UN's administration of Kosovo which made its declaration of independence, and 45 countries' recognition of it, all the more illegal. Video here. And so it goes at the UN and Security Council.
Kosovo came up again and again in the debate, and then afterwards at the Press stakeout. Churkin said that while NATO had bombed Serbian television, Russia has not bombed Georgian TV, despite its content. (The reference may also have been to Rwanda's Radio Television Milles Collines, the poster child of ethnic hatred media that was also never bombed, but whose officials were later indicted and convicted by the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda.)
At the stakeout, Inner City Press asked Amb. Wolff about Churkin's argument, and Wolff called it specious. Inner City Press pointed out that several Security Council resolutions about Kosovo had referred to Serbia's territorial integrity, before that integrity was dismissed earlier this year. Wolff responded that Serbian territorial integrity was surrendered earlier, with Russia's approval, when resolutions were passed calling for the withdrawal of Serbian military forces from Kosovo, and turning over authority in Kosovo to the United Nations. Video here.
When Inner City Press asked Churkin to respond, he said that it was the UN's administration of Kosovo which made its declaration of independence, and 45 countries' recognition of it, all the more illegal. Video here. And so it goes at the UN and Security Council.
nner City Press pointed out that several Security Council resolutions about Kosovo had referred to Serbia's territorial integrity, before that integrity was dismissed earlier this year. Wolff responded that Serbian territorial integrity was surrendered earlier, with Russia's approval, when resolutions were passed calling for the withdrawal of Serbian military forces from Kosovo, and turning over authority in Kosovo to the United Nations. Video here.
Here is bloody resolution 1244 saying:
http://www.nato.int/Kosovo/docu/u990610a.htm
Reaffirming the commitment of all Member States to the sovereignty and territorial integrity of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia and the other States of the region, as set out in the Helsinki Final Act and annex 2, Reaffirming the call in previous resolutions for substantial autonomy and meaningful self-administration for Kosovo,
Reaffirming the call in previous resolutions for substantial autonomy and meaningful self-administration for Kosovo,
by and large the UN is only as effective as the superpowers want it to be. Right now, that only seems to be when the UN agrees with them, but not when it rules against them. keep to the Fen Causeway
it would be truly moronic to believe otherwise... ~"When an inner situation is not made conscious, it appears outside as fate." Karl Jung~
