Serbia remembers Annan, but séia forgets bombing

Kofi Annan, former UN Secretary General who died today after a brief illness at the age of 80, has held some of the most key positions in the UN, including that of the deputy secretary general, in 1987.

During the 1990s, he was committed to peaceful operations in the world, while by October 1995, he was a special UN envoy to the former Yugoslavia.

During his mandate, Annan had great support from the US administration of Bill Clinton, and even though he is the winner of the Nobel Peace Prize, in Serbia he is not considered one because of the support he gave to NATO bombings on Serbian targets, Koha.net broadcasts.

Annan from 1997 to 2006 was Secretary General of the UN Council. At the time, according to Serbian media, the <x0-radition of NATO over Yugoslavia”, while the United Nations, according to Serbian media, “Days of March 1999 became collateral victims of American and NATO aggression in Yugoslavia”.

According to the UN Charter, writes “Novost”, Yugoslavia with nothing had sparked war.

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In addition, this medium says that in his May 7th appearance, the same day that NATO planes hit the Chinese Embassy in Belgrade, Annan had said that “human rights preservation should be above state sovereignty”.

The Serbian media further adds that Annan, from the post of UN Secretary General, had said that “sometimes rules should be violated to protect human life”.

During a visit to Brussels, says “Novost”, where was the war headquarters against Yugoslavia, Annan was even more concrete when he said that “the use of military violence on the part of a regional organisation, such as NATO, sometimes it can be reasoned without Security Council authorisation”.