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Serbia, Russia agree UN Charter, Resolution 1244 must be respected in Kosovo status settlement process

Belgrade, 20 April 2007

Serbian Prime Minister Vojislav Kostunica said today that the visit of Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov confirms Serbia and Russia’s joint principled policy and adamant stance that while resolving the Kosovo issue, UN Charter and the effectual Resolution 1244, guaranteeing sovereignty and territorial integrity of all UN members, must be respected.

Vojislav Kostunica

In a statement to the Tanjug news agency, Kostunica said that Martti Ahtisaari made a cardinal mistake when he came out with a proposal directly breaching the UN Charter and all effectual norms of international law on which the entire world order is based, and added that it was clear the proposal was doomed to fail.

The Serbian Prime Minister said that Serbia must now look to the arrival of the Security Council mission, initiated by Russia. He also added that the issue of the return of the displaced must be given priority in the mission’s goals.

We fully agree with the stand exposed by Lavrov that arrival of the Security Council’s mission would be a good move for starting new negotiations, Kostunica said and noted that Serbia strongly supports the idea of preparing a new negotiations cycle in the best possible way.

He underlined that all member states of the UN Security Council should unreservedly reject as classical blackmail the threats of Albanian terrorists that they will cause mass violence should they fail to get independence and that such threats cannot be a reason for not starting new and real negotiations.