http://www.reuters.com/article/worldNews/idUSL1580692720070815
Reuters
August 15, 2007
West surrenders to Kosovo blackmail: Russia Foreign
Minister
Western states are letting Kosovo use the threat of
chaos to blackmail them into giving the Serbian
province independence, Russia's foreign minister wrote
in an article published on Wednesday.
Western diplomats have warned of growing tension in
the Serbian province, where ethnic Albanians are a
majority, if it is not granted independence. Moscow
has backed its ally Serbia by opposing independence
for Kosovo.
"In the case of Kosovo, our partners are inclined to
give in to blackmail with (the threat of) violence and
anarchy," Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov wrote in an
article posted on the ministry's Internet site
www.mid.ru.
The 4,000 word article also accused the West of
pursuing a mistaken policy of containing Russia, and
said a better approach would be to engage with Moscow.
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