The Rapid Response Ambassador
Another Kosovo draft presented to the Security Council by the United States, Britain and France puts off Kosovo independence for four months. Russia immediately rejected the document, signaling the fate of the region will be decided July 2, during the Maine get-together of Russia’s President Vladimir Putin and U.S. President George Bush.
”We won’t work at this draft,” Vitaly Churkin, who is Russia's ambassador to the United Nations, rebuffed as soon as the plan of the trio became available at the U.N. Security Council. “We don’t think it’s basically correct to introduce any temporarily limits on which expiration the plan of Ahtisaari that hasn’t been approved by the parties will automatically take effect,” Churkin clarified later on the reasons of Russia’s decision to ignore the draft.
Russia’s withdrawal from deliberations on the draft has made totally senseless its further consideration in the U.S. Security Council. The masterminds, however, can put the document to vote, forcing the Kremlin to manifest its resolve in deed and not in name.
Moscow proceeds from the assumption, some sources with the diplomatic community said, that the trio hasn’t sufficiently adjusted its plan to make it a compromise and that the West will take a few more steps towards Russia. The respective chance will emerge quite soon, when George Bush hosts Vladimir Putin in the family ranch in Maine. Kosovo will be one of the highlights of the meeting, so the fate of this breakaway province of Serbia could be decided already on July 2 but in context of other issues of top priority for Russia and the United States.
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