Report: Moscow did what it could

Accoridng to the Moscow daily Kommersant, Russia did all it could for Belgrade and Serbia in a UN SC Kosovo session.

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Thursday, 05.04.2007.

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Report: Moscow did what it could

Russia did not use its veto power – there simply was no need to do so, the daily wrote, adding that the Serbian vision would have come at too high a price.

The Serbian Prime Minister and the metropolitan of the Serbian Orthodox Church have recently called insistently on Moscow to pronounce a historic "no" on the plan, the Moscow daily reported.

The report went on to explain that the meaning behind these appeals boils down to the following: “you, our Russian brothers, please bang your fist on the table, and we will never forget what you have done for us.”

The daily estimates that the down side for Russia in Serbia's current rigid insistence on a Russian veto lies not only in the likely confrontation with the West towards which Belgrade is shoving Moscow.

The Serbian media under the control of Vojislav Koštunica's government has been assuring Serbs for months that the question of a Russian veto in the UN Security Council is practically settled, that Russia will not allow the UN to sever Kosovo, and that the province will always remain Serbian.

According to Kommersant, this propaganda campaign is deliberately circumventing reality, which is in essence that Kosovo has long been lost to Serbia:

“The issue now is not how to keep it under Belgrade's authority, but how to find a solution to will avoid destabilization and that will allow both the international community and Serbia to save face.”

UK weekly Economist says that the West fears that Russia might indeed block the adoption of a new resolution on Kosovo and stir up still more tension in the Balkans.

However, Moscow might opt not to oppose the U.S. and the European Union, the weekly wrote, adding that it was no secret that bilateral diplomacy was underway, and that American diplomats wished to find out what would Russia want in return for its support.

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