RUSSIAN FOREIGN MINISTRY SPOKESMAN REJECTS NEW KOSOVO RESOLUTION
BBC Monitoring International Reports - May 12, 2007, Saturday

Text of report by Russian news agency Interfax

Moscow, 12 May: Moscow sees certain provisions of the draft of a new UN Security Council resolution on Kosovo as unacceptable. "Certainly, discussions with the document's authors are still to be held. However, it is evident that the draft resolution contains a number of provisions which we cannot accept," Russian Foreign Ministry spokesman Mikhail Kamynin said when answering a journalist's question.

"As we have already said more than once, a real resolution of the Kosovo problem cannot be achieved through some imposed options. This has to be done through agreement between the sides, the Serbs and the Kosovo Albanians. This is why we are in favour of determining the next steps in concert, so that they encourage the negotiation process aimed at finding a compromise solution in the interests of international stability," Kamynin said. His answer was published on the Russian Foreign Ministry website.

Source: Interfax news agency, Moscow, in Russian 1052 gmt 12 May 07

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