PanARMENIAN.Net
UN Security Council fails to break deadlock over Kosovo
15.02.2008 14:36 GMT+04:00
/PanARMENIAN.Net/ The UN Security Council failed on Thursday to break
a long-standing deadlock over Kosovo despite a last-ditch effort by
Russia and Serbia to prevent the Serbian province from declaring
independence.
The 15-nation council met behind closed doors at the request of
Serbia. However, only 5 permanent members supported Kosovo’s
independence, Russian UN ambassador Vitaly Churkin said.
He also slammed Kosovo’s independence as "a blatant breach of
international law" and voiced concern about the risk of renewed
interethnic violence in the province and the Balkans as a whole.
The UN Security Council President, Panama’s Ricardo Alberto Arias said
Kosovo became a European problem, the UN news center reports.
The Serbian government on Thursday denounced any unilateral
declaration of Kosovo’s independence – expected within days – as
`invalid and void’. Serbia’s Prime Minister Vojislav Kostunica said
his country will not tolerate existence of a `puppet state’ on its
territory.
Belgrade’s ally Moscow also warns against creation of a dangerous
precedent in the international politics.