Russia and U.S. at odds over Kosovo

Russia and U.S. at odds over Kosovo

"We still have no common vision of how this problem should be solved," Lavrov told Interfax news agency. "Kosovo is a subject where our disagreement is deepest, unlike our positions on Iran, Iraq and the Middle East."

Russia is convinced that the Kosovo issue must be settled only through negotiations, and it is necessary to look for "a variant" that will be approved both by Serbs and Priština, Itar-Tass reported Lavrov as saying.

The agency says Lavrov noted that “Americans have some different views on the problem”, adding that they believed it was necessary to settle the issue through the UN Security Council.

"A variant to impose what is unacceptable to any of the parties does not suit us," Lavrov said, according to Itar-Tass.

On Friday, UN envoy Martti Ahtisaari unveiled a plan to set Kosovo on a path to independence, an outcome that the province's majority Albanians quickly applauded but Belgrade rejected.