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December 05, 2006

Russia Will Veto Any Imposed Kosovo Solution

(RFE/RL)

December 5, 2006 -- Russia has said it will use its UN Security Council veto to block any UN decision on the status of Kosovo that is not accepted by both Belgrade and Pristina.

Russia's ambassador to Serbia, Aleksandr Alekseyev, told the private B92 television channel Lon December 4 that if a proposed status solution is not acceptable for both sides, "the Russian side will use its right of veto."


Kosovo is a Serbian province under UN administration. Belgrade lost control of Kosovo in 1999 after a 78-day NATO bombing campaign halted a crackdown by Serbian forces against independence-seeking ethnic Albanians.


(AFP, AP)


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