Responsibility for destruction of Serbian national heritage during international mandate in K&M

Abstract

After the suspension of the unilateral North Atlantic Treaty Organization's attack on FR Yugoslavia, without an appropriate decision of the United Nations Security Council, in the Autonomous Province of Kosovo and Metohija an international legal order has been introduced, under the auspices of the UN Security Council, with the participation of regional international organizations. Since then, some of these organizations, despite being mandated in K&M in accordance with the decisions of the UN Security Council, not only violated its binding Resolution by supporting and transferring competencies to the separatist entity, but also did not perform the duties from the assigned mandates. The inaction and internationally wrongful acts of these organizations resulted in the widespread devastation of the Serbian heritage and the removal of traces of the Serbian presence in the region that is the territorial and spiritual root of the nation. This article discusses the international legal responsibility of international organizations that had a mandate to provide standards in the southern Autonomous Province of the Republic of Serbia, for the harm caused to the Serbian national heritage during international presence. The need to shed light on this issue stems from the possible risk for international law if the destruction of the millennial national heritage, under the international mandate, remains with impunity.