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Russia Not Excluded from Kosovo Discourse
Russia doesn’t consider itself excluded from the Kosovo discussions, the RF Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said in response to the question why Russia hadn’t been invited to the last meeting on Kosovo, RIA-Novosti reported.
I haven’t heard about that meeting of our western colleagues, Lavrov said after the sitting of Middle East quartet. It is the right of our partners to talk over whatever they want between them, the minister explained. According to Lavrov, Russia doesn’t consider itself excluded from the Kosovo discussions, as this issue is being deliberated on in the Security Council, where Russia is the permanent member.
Later on at the briefing, Lavrov reminded of Russia’s standing whereby any new moves in the region should be taken in view of position of both parties. No matter what happens in Kosovo and around it, Lavrov went on, it should be done by concent of both parties, Belgrade and Pristine. If any steps are beyond Resolution 1244, they call for a new resolution of the U.N. Security Council.
Slovenia’s Foreign Minister Dmitrij Rupel recalled the special role of the EU in sorting out the Kosovo problem under the U.N. Resolution 1244. A raft of new ways to tackle the issue may emerge in the framework of that resolution, the minister made clear. Slovenia chairs the EU nowadays.
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