SERBIA-info, 19 gennaio
UN Security Council raises the question of depleted uranium ammunition
http://www.serbia-info.com/news/2001-01/19/21979.html

New York, January 18 (Tanjug) - At its open session on Kosovo and Metohija, the UN Security Council raised the question of depleted uranium ammunition NATO had used in the aggression on Yugoslavia.

Some Council members, among them two permanent ones - Russia and China - raised this question as crucial and unavoidable in a debate on Kosovo and Metohija. They asked the United Nations to take steps to investigate the matter, establish the facts and protect the population and the peacekeepers in Kosovo and Metohija as much as possible from the adverse consequences of the use of depleted uranium ammunition.

The FRY charge d'affaires to the UN Vladislav Mladenovic said the international community was obliged to take urgent measures in order to forestall harmful consequences. According to him, the responsibility for the use of the ammunition should be shouldered by those who authorized its use, whether or not they were aware of its potentially harmful consequences.



Comments: UN - too little, too late. See: How it all began