Jeremic: Serbia Weakens Position in Talks with Kosovo by Washington Document

Vuk Jeremic (Beta/Milos Miskov)

People's Party leader and former chairman of the U.N. General Assembly Vuk Jeremic told BETA on Sept. 7 that by an "apparent" violation of Resolution 478, i.e. the decision to relocate its embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem, Serbia had violated international law and conspicuously weakened its chief argument in international activities related to the Kosovo policy.

Jeremic said that all U.N. Security Council resolutions were binding for all U.N. member states and represented an integral part of international law. He said that Serbia had significantly weakened its own arguments in international relations, because the core of the Kosovo policy was the citing of international law and Resolution 1244.

"Therefore, if you are ready to unilaterally violate a Security Council resolution, then that greatly weakens the strength of your appeals when you cite another resolution," Jeremic explained and added that so far, after the U.S. in 2018, only Guatemala had violated Resolution 478, and one had to wonder how that did not raise any red flags for the Serbian delegation in Washington.

Jeremic further said that the Serbian delegation had not included anyone with any kind of diplomatic experience and that the Serbian Foreign Ministry had not been consulted on the document at all.