NO CHANCE FOR KOSOVO INDEPENDENCE

PanARMENIAN.Net
19.12.2007 13:12 GMT+04:00

/PanARMENIAN.Net/ Russia’s Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov described
the EU proposal to deploy a police mission in Kosovo as slyness. "The
situation is much more complicated. The idea to replace the UN mission
by an EU mission is rather smart," Mr Lavrov said.

"The problem is in wrong interpretation of Resolution 1244 which
empowers the UN Secretary General to amend the civil and military
personnel in Kosovo. However, Ban Ki-moon’s predecessor had issued
appropriate instructions and in order to change them a new proposal
should be submitted to the Security Council," the Minister said.

He also criticized statement that "Resolution 1244 supposes unilateral
independence for Kosovo." "If you study the document thoroughly you
will see that it provides no possibility of the kind. The matter
concerns creation of necessary conditions for a political resolution
and further formation of substantial autonomy for Kosovo within
Serbia," he said, The Echo of Moscow reports.