Former U.S. Ambassador to the U.N. Richard Holbrooke
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Russia Rebuffs Holbrooke’s Allegations
The statements of U.S. policymaker Richard Holbrooke about Russia’s implicit incitement to violence by extremist elements in Belgrade are inappropriate, Russia’s Foreign Ministry’s Spokesman Mikhail Kamynin told the reporters on Friday.
“We regard these allegations as completely inappropriate. It is another way of laying their own fault at the door of somebody else,” the diplomat said.
Past night, the rally in Belgrade staged to protest against unilateral declaration of Kosovo’s independence developed into the riots and the U.S. embassy was set on fire.
“The people that advocated unilateral declaration of Kosovo independence must have thought of the consequences of that step,” Kamynin said, specifying that Holbrooke, whose involvement in the Balkan affairs had been great, knows about it better than anyone else.
“The fact that [declaring independence has] not happened as peacefully as people had hoped is the direct result of the incitement to violence by extremist elements in Belgrade, implicitly and privately supported by the Russians,” Richard Holbrooke, top foreign advisor in the presidential campaign of Sen. Hillary Clinton (D-NY) and chief architect of the Dayton peace accords for former Yugoslavia, told CNN in live air, provoking the Russians to respond.
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