Moscow: ISG aims to assume UN SC jurisdiction
The International Steering Group for Kosovo (ISG) is in contradiction with UN Resolution 1244, Russia says.
Monday, 03.03.2008.
17:09
The International Steering Group for Kosovo (ISG) is in contradiction with UN Resolution 1244, Russia says. Russian Foreign Ministry spokesman Mikhail Kamynin also said today that the setting up of the group runs contrary to the international community's harmonized principles on the settlement of the Kosovo issue. Moscow: ISG aims to assume UN SC jurisdiction "We consider that the establishment of the ISG is at variance with the UN Security Council’s resolution 1244 and with the principles for Kosovo settlement agreed upon by the international community." "The Group represents only the interests of the countries that have recognized Kosovo’s independence or announced their readiness to do so, and therefore does not express the opinion of the international community as a whole," Kamynin said. "The declared goal of ISG activities is to help Pristina's efforts in developing the unilaterally proclaimed independence under the so called Ahtisaari plan, which, as is known, was not approved by the UNSC and cannot serve as a basis for settlement," he continued. "We’re witnessing an arbitrary imposition of a structure which, with no grounds for that, is laying claims to the prerogatives of the UN and its Security Council. We are convinced that ways ought to be sought for getting Kosovo settlement back into the international legal field along the lines of UNSC Resolution 1244 instead of this. Any other actions can only aggravate the situation surrounding Kosovo further still and detonate unpredictable consequences," Kamynin said. Belgrade has already rejected the establishment of the group, and considers it illegal.
Moscow: ISG aims to assume UN SC jurisdiction
"We consider that the establishment of the ISG is at variance with the UN Security Council’s resolution 1244 and with the principles for Kosovo settlement agreed upon by the international community.""The Group represents only the interests of the countries that have recognized Kosovo’s independence or announced their readiness to do so, and therefore does not express the opinion of the international community as a whole," Kamynin said.
"The declared goal of ISG activities is to help Priština's efforts in developing the unilaterally proclaimed independence under the so called Ahtisaari plan, which, as is known, was not approved by the UNSC and cannot serve as a basis for settlement," he continued.
"We’re witnessing an arbitrary imposition of a structure which, with no grounds for that, is laying claims to the prerogatives of the UN and its Security Council. We are convinced that ways ought to be sought for getting Kosovo settlement back into the international legal field along the lines of UNSC Resolution 1244 instead of this. Any other actions can only aggravate the situation surrounding Kosovo further still and detonate unpredictable consequences," Kamynin said.
Belgrade has already rejected the establishment of the group, and considers it illegal.
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