UN Security Council discusses report on March violence in Kosovska Mitrovica
The UN Security Council will be officially informed on Wednesday about the results of an investigation into the March armed incidents in Kosovska Mitrovica, when a wave of violence was caused in an international forces operation in which a Ukrainian police officer was killed and 64 UNMIK police officers, 24 KFOR members and around 100 Serb protesters were injured.
(KosovoCompromise Staff) Wednesday, August 06, 2008
Belgian permanent representative at the United Nations Jan Grauls said late on Monday that the Secretariat would hold the official briefing of Council member-countries on Wednesday.
At the orders of deputy UNMIK head Larry Rosin of the United States, international forces on March 17 raided the Mitrovica District Court building, where Serbs, former judicial workers, protested for a number of days, demanding to return to work.
Serbia and Russia have insisted since March that the armed incidents in Kosovska Mitrovica be investigated officially and believe that UNMIK's implementation of force was unjust and unacceptable.
Report leaks last week suggested that the UN investigators concluded that the Unmik action was "unwise".
Rosin was sacked soon after the events.
