The Serbia-Montenegrin Ministry of Foreign Affairs lodged a protest with the United Nations Security Council and the Department of Peacekeeping Operations late on Tuesday, following the injuring of Jovica Ivic in Caglavica near Pristina. The 18-year-old boy was shot three times in the belly and arm in a drive-by shooting on March 15.
This crime is a tragic proof that four years after the arrival of international peacekeeping forces to Kosovo-Metohija they still have not managed to secure the minimum of personal security for Serbs, whose basic right to life is not guaranteed, it is said in the letter of protest.
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs stressed that the fact that even children are not spared ethnically motivated crimes should be a warning to the international community, adding that it will request again from the UNMIK and KFOR to clear up the crimes committed in the province and bring perpetrators to justice.
The Chargé d' Affaires of the Serbia-Montenegrin Mission to the United Nations, Roksanda Nincic, delivered the letter of protest to the president of the UN Security Council and the Department of Peacekeeping Operations.