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Itar-Tass
January 10, 2008
UN resolution on Kosovo should be based on compromise
- diplomat
MOSCOW - Russia will not agree to the UN Security
Council’s decision on the province of Kosovo unless it
is based on a compromise, the Russian Foreign
Minister’s special representative on the Balkans,
Alexander Botsan-Kharchenko, told ITAR-TASS on
Thursday.
His comment follows a statement by British Foreign
Office Minister for Europe Jim Murphy, who has called
for preventing Moscow from vetoing Kosovo’s
independence.
Botsan-Kharchenko called the statement “strange”.
“How can you hinder Moscow; it is a UN Security
Council permanent member and has the right for it (the
veto). We have principally stated that we will not
give consent to the UN Security Council’s decision
that is not based on a compromise,” he said.
The diplomat also said that the Security Council would
review at its meeting on January 16 a report by the UN
mission on Kosovo.
“The draft resolution will not be discussed,” he
stressed.
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