Russia has been pushing for a session of the United Nations Security Council to discuss the NATO bombing campaign against Serbian forces in 1999 that ended the war in Kosovo.

After Monday’s failure for such a session, the holding of which was made impossible since 12 member countries did not vote for Moscow’s request, Russia again submitted a request for a debate on the topic of “preserving international peace and stability”, writes Vocie of America.

“If you thought that Russian diplomacy at the UN would simply give up, then you were wrong. This is not our style. We once again requested a session of the UN Security Council on NATO’s aggression against Yugoslavia. After the strong opposition of our opponents, we managed to get the chairman from Japan to schedule the session for Thursday at 3:00 PM in New York,” Russian Deputy Ambassador to the UN, Dmitry Polyansky, wrote on the X network.

However, the possibilities for the session to be held seem few. The opening of the debate requires a procedural vote and to be approved the order needs the support of 9 of the 15 member countries of the Security Council.

The Serbian Foreign Minister, Ivica Dacic, told the Serbian media in Belgrade that “France has warned that it will ask for a procedural vote”, therefore “the session will most likely not be held”.

He emphasized that Russia has not approved the work plan of the Security Council for the month of April, so Serbia is now entering the middle of the clashes of the great powers, “which was not our intention”.

On Monday, the US representative to the UN, Robert Wood, accused Russia of trying to use the anniversary of NATO’s intervention to spread its propaganda and fuel regional tensions in the Western Balkans.

He reiterated the American position that the intervention was a “necessary and legal action to end the ethnic cleansing in Kosovo”.