The regime media continues to glorify another "historic" appearance of Aleksandar Vučić at the United Nations last Thursday, a great diplomatic victory for Serbia. However, nothing happened, especially in the Security Council. And the question of the "winner" in the confrontation between the President of Serbia and the Prime Minister of Kosovo is questionable
Ana Brnabić's "no pasaran" echoes through Serbia, which is European Parliament (EP) request that an international investigation of the extraordinary elections held on December 17 be carried out in Serbia was considered an "ultimatum" and compared it to Austria-Hungary's request on July 23, 1914, to carry out an investigation in Serbia after the Sarajevo assassination.
We should start from the fact that the technical prime minister is not very familiar with that period of history, because otherwise it would turn out that she is accusing the EP of wanting to provoke a war with Serbia and calling on the citizens of Serbia to get ready to defend their homeland from the European Union with weapons in hand.
Other progressives took over this battle cry of Ana Brnabić and went public with variations on the theme of "ultimatum", "domestic traitors", "defense of the country's sovereignty", all in all as a "historical no" to the interference of foreign powers in Serbia's internal affairs. The defense of the election results approved by the RIK and GIK was thus raised to the level of the highest priority and heroism that will go down in the history of Serbia.
In order to divert attention from the well-argued ordinary suspicion supported by numerous evidences that the elections were stolen, they switched to pompous and incendiary rhetoric - everything that now comes from the progressive ranks is "historical", "patriotic", "heroic", it is defended " the sovereignty of Serbia", the fight for the "survival of Serbian life in Kosovo and Metohija" is being waged, where Pristina is "carrying out a crime against humanity".
That's right appearance of Vučić before the Security Council (SC) of the UN on Thursday evening, in the regime media, it was rated as "historic", as something never seen before, as a great victory for Serbia, that is, for its president.
But what really happened in New York and what is the role of the Security Council?
How SB works
Based on the Charter of the United Nations, the Security Council held its first session on May 17, 1946. Then it became a kind of executive power of the UN, because all other bodies of the largest organization in the world can only make general recommendations, and only the Security Council can make binding decisions. for all member states.
SB has five permanent and 10 non-permanent members. The United States of America, the United Kingdom of Great Britain, the Russian Federation, France and China are permanent and have veto power. Non-permanent members have the right to participate in voting and are elected by the UN General Assembly for two years each, ensuring that every part of the world's population is equally represented.
The Security Council is headed by a chairman who automatically takes his turn for one month from among all the members arranged according to the English alphabet. The Standing Orders of the Security Council are 11 densely typed pages.
The Council meets regularly twice a year, and extraordinary sessions are scheduled at the request of one of the members, at the recommendation of the UN General Assembly or at the request of the UN Secretary General. Permanent members can veto the convening of an extraordinary session, which must be announced no later than 3 days before its holding. Serbia could not directly convene a Security Council session on Kosovo, but could do so through a friendly member.
Practice has shown that there are four variants of decisions of the Security Council: a binding decision on, for example, sanctions, military intervention, sending peacekeeping troops...; a binding but non-enforceable resolution; recommendation of what to do; simply stating the situation without taking a stand.
The fifth option is to not make any decision, which is often the case, when a decision is prevented by the veto of one of the permanent members of the SB.
According to the rules of procedure, voting is done "for", "against" or by "abstaining" from one's own position. In practice, there is also the possibility of leaving the hall, i.e. non-attendance at the session.
Introducing Kurti through the back door
The Security Council can invite any member of the UN, representatives of international organizations, and individual personalities to its sessions. Subjects invited in this way can participate equally in the debate, but cannot vote on the decisions of the SB. In this specific case, the Security Council decided to invite the representative of the UN member Serbia and the person Aljbin Kurti, who came accompanied by the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Kosovo, also in the capacity of a private person.
This is clearly marked by the fact that Vučić was sitting from the board that says "Serbia", and Kurti was behind the board with his first and last name. It is important to keep in mind that the Security Council meeting is decided by its members, and not by invited subjects who only express their views.
Although the members are not obliged to speak if they do not want to or have nothing to say, this time the representatives of all fifteen members of the SB came forward to speak. We highlight that only three (Russia, China and Algeria) absolutely condemned the proclamation of the euro as the only valid currency in Kosovo, i.e. the dinar ban, and all the others did not in principle speak against such a decision of the Central Bank of Kosovo, but requested that it not be done suddenly, that the Serbs in Kosovo be given enough time to adapt to the new situation.
Kurti was mostly addressed as the Prime Minister of Kosovo, some even with Excellency. In this way, with its success in convening the Security Council session as it wished, and that was still open to the public, Serbia, through the back door, introduced Kurti, and thus Kosovo, into the United Nations, which it most wanted to prevent.
After the debate, the President of Serbia wanted to speak once more, for the third time, but the chairwoman did not allow him to do so, so the last voice of the evening echoed: "Mr. Vučić, on this occasion I am not giving you the floor." Pure formality, but unpleasant. for him, and he himself caused it.
No member of the SB had submitted any proposal (theoretically, a proposal could be submitted to condemn the actions of the authorities in Pristina against citizens of Serbian nationality), but neither Russia nor China proposed anything similar.
The Serbian president's statement that a "crime against humanity" is being committed in Kosovo has sunk in completely.
The Security Council session convened at Serbia's insistence ended without a decision and without any official statement from the executive body of the UN organization, which represents 193 countries with 7,72 billion inhabitants, which represents 99,44 percent of humanity.
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