Serbia protests to the UN over Kosovo Albanian visit

Serbia has formally protested to the U.N. over a visit to the building by the president of Kosovo Fatmir Sejdiu.

(KosovoCompromise Staff) Monday, September 28, 2009

"We have lodged a sharp protest to the U.N. Secretariat and demanded an immediate inquiry into how this happened," Serbian Foreign Minister Vuk Jeremic said.

Jeremic said that Sejdiu and members of his delegation are private citizens and therefore cannot be allowed to attend the current General Assembly session.

Sejdiu and his delegation had passes that allowed them to visit parts of the U.N. headquarters building that are normally off limits to visitors and journalists, but did not enter the General Assembly chamber. It was not immediately known how they had obtained the passes.