Security Council condemns killing of Kosovo Serb family members

The members of the United Nations Security Council today strongly condemned the murder of three members of a Serb family in Kosovo, underscoring that such acts undermined international efforts to foster ethnic reconciliation in the country.

“Members of the Security Council fully support the efforts initiated by the Special Representative of the Secretary-General, [Michael] Steiner, to conduct an urgent investigation and to bring to justice the perpetrators of this despicable crime,” the Council President for June, Ambassador Sergey Lavrov of the Russian Federation, said in a press statement on the killing earlier this week in Obilic of 82-year-old Slobodan Stolic, his wife and son.

Such acts jeopardize Security Council resolutions aimed towards “building a multi-ethnic and tolerant society with equal security for all and necessary conditions for the safe return of refugees and IDPs [Internally Displaced Persons],” Ambassador Lavrov told reporters at UN Headquarters in New York.