NEW YORK (UN). June 4 (Interfax) - The members of the United Nations Security Council are due to discuss the situation in Kosovo in the first half of the day on June 10, Russian Permanent Mission to the UN press secretary Fyodor Strzhizhovsky told Interfax.
"The council's program for this month was adopted on June 3. According to it, an open session on Kosovo has been scheduled for the first half of the day on June 10," he said.
On May 28, a Kosovo special taskforce using 73 special vehicles entered four communities in the northern part of the province populated predominantly by ethnic Serbs. According to witnesses and journalists, the action was accompanied by the excessive use of force. The taskforce detained some 30 people, including police officers. Kosovo's authorities said the operation was part of a campaign against organized crime and had been approved by the Prosecutor's Office of Pristina.
Mikhail Krasnoshchyokov, a Russian staff member of the UN Mission in Kosovo (UNMIK), was beaten up and detained near the barricades during the raid by Kosovo's security forces in the town of Zubin Potok in the north of Kosovo and Metohija.
According to the Kosovan side, Krasnoshchyokov was near the barricades alongside the Serbs, who were obstructing a Kosovo special forces raid.
Serbian media, in turn, said that the Kosovan special forces beat the Russian diplomat up for speaking Serbian. The Russian citizen is currently in a Belgrade hospital.