K. Serbs have right to choose, Lavrov says
The Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs today released the Kosovo notes from the April 2 Duma session.
Tuesday, 08.04.2008.
17:17
The Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs today released the Kosovo notes from the April 2 Duma session. Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov "expressed his confidence that the minority peoples living in Kosovo, mainly, but not only Serbs, have the full right to express their will in regards to how and where they want to live, and in what capacity will they stay", the Russian MFA said . K. Serbs have right to choose, Lavrov says Lavrov said that "it is no accident that the Serb municipalities in Kosovska Mitrovica and other Serb enclaves categorically refuse to cooperate with anyone except KFOR and UNMIK, which had been set up in keeping with UN Security Council Resolution 1244". "Forcing them to submit and accept alleged legitimacy of the European Union's mission is absolutely unacceptable," said the minister, adding that Moscow had been discussing this with EU and UNMIK representatives. Lavrov also said that Russia now has the right to ask, "as it already has", her Western partners, who had claimed that it is impossible to continue the status negotiations, whether their argument that the Albanians could never again live together with the Serbs may be implemented on the situation inside Kosovo as a principle. "They don't know what they are saying," concluded Lavrov, and expressed his confidence that the "development of the situation has not been stopped". The Russian diplomacy chief also said that the minorities have the full right to their identity, and that this applies not only to Serbia, "including the Kosovo situation", but also other to countries in the Balkans. "Russia is obligated to protect the Kosovo Serbs on the legal and socio-economic level," Lavrov was quoted as saying. This was his answer to the question heard in the Duma, about what Moscow's plans to protect the Serbs in the province are. The status of the Kosovo Serbs was described as "miserable". The Duma deputies wanted to know what options were on the table, and whether they included a partition – "another Dayton", that would entail a "creation of a new Serb republic". Sergei Lavrov (FoNet)
K. Serbs have right to choose, Lavrov says
Lavrov said that "it is no accident that the Serb municipalities in Kosovska Mitrovica and other Serb enclaves categorically refuse to cooperate with anyone except KFOR and UNMIK, which had been set up in keeping with UN Security Council Resolution 1244"."Forcing them to submit and accept alleged legitimacy of the European Union's mission is absolutely unacceptable," said the minister, adding that Moscow had been discussing this with EU and UNMIK representatives.
Lavrov also said that Russia now has the right to ask, "as it already has", her Western partners, who had claimed that it is impossible to continue the status negotiations, whether their argument that the Albanians could never again live together with the Serbs may be implemented on the situation inside Kosovo as a principle.
"They don't know what they are saying," concluded Lavrov, and expressed his confidence that the "development of the situation has not been stopped".
The Russian diplomacy chief also said that the minorities have the full right to their identity, and that this applies not only to Serbia, "including the Kosovo situation", but also other to countries in the Balkans.
"Russia is obligated to protect the Kosovo Serbs on the legal and socio-economic level," Lavrov was quoted as saying.
This was his answer to the question heard in the Duma, about what Moscow's plans to protect the Serbs in the province are. The status of the Kosovo Serbs was described as "miserable".
The Duma deputies wanted to know what options were on the table, and whether they included a partition – "another Dayton", that would entail a "creation of a new Serb republic".
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