After the Security Council had established the international administration
in Kosovo on grounds of the Resolution no. 1244 of 10 June 1999 for the
construction and reconstruction of the legal and economic systems, the
support and protection of human rights, the provision of humanitarian and
other assistance, it adopted the conclusion that the achievement of a
political settlement for the southern Serbian province would primarily depend
on the development and consolidation of peace and security. Accordingly, in
May 2001, the international administration adopted the Constitutional
Framework for Provisional Self- Government in Kosovo, which defined the
status of the Serbian southern province as a whole and indivisible
territorial entity under the interim international administration. The
Constitutional Framework is regulated as a substantial transfer of state
responsibilities by the peoples of Kosovo and Metohija to the provisional
institutions of self-government and it should ?enjoy substantial autonomy
within the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia?. This institutional development is
aimed at establishing constructive cooperation among various ethnic
communities in order to build a common democratic state. Since this solution
is not quite legally balanced, it could not go without any negative
consequences in terms of national sovereignty. The suspension of sovereignty
of the Republic of Serbia in Kosovo and Metohija has eventually contributed
to creating of the conditions for the socalled unilateral declaration of
independence of the Republic of Kosovo. The analysis of the activities
undertaken in the field of resolving the status issue after the unilateral
declaration of independence of 17 February 2008 suggests that the solution
for the Kosovo and Metohija should be primarily sought within the United
Nations system.
The analysis of un activities in resolving the issue of Kosovo and Metohija
