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Saturday, December 15th, 2007Russian Ambassador Vitaly Churkin announces that at the longed for meeting of the UN Security Council on December 19th, dealing with the status issue of Kosovo, representatives from Serbia as well as Kosovo will participate. On the Serbian side even the president Vojislav Koštunica will travel to New York City.
While almost no one believes in […]
Russia’s position on Kosovo
Wednesday, December 12th, 2007Ambassador Vitaly Churkin speaks about the Russian evaluation of very liky secession of Kosovo from the Serbian state. While the ambassador reveals interesting details of Serbian offers towards an more or less self-governed Kosovo, like an own soccer team or an own police unit, he made absolutly clear that Russia will not accept […]
Putin warns of military action against Iran
Tuesday, October 16th, 2007Russian president Vladimir Putin told a summit of five Caspian Sea nations in Iran today that any use of military force in the Caspian region was unacceptable and in a declaration the countries agreed that none of them would allow their territories to be used as a base for launching military strikes against any of […]
Serbia threatens with force
Thursday, September 6th, 2007A senior Serbian official warned on Wednesday that Serbia is ready to use force to prevent Western states from recognizing Kosovo as an independent state. Dusan Prorokovic, Serbia’s state secretary for Kosovo, outlined an array of tough measures to squeeze Kosovo that he said Serbia was ready to take in the event that Kosovo’s Albanian-dominated […]
Kosovo: Partition Becomes an Option
Monday, August 13th, 2007Representatives from Russia, EU and the United States who are leading new talks on Kosovo said Sunday that partition of the breakaway territory, once taboo, could be an option if Serbs and Albanians agreed to it. Western policy on Kosovo previously ruled out partition because it could set off regional conflict. Any division would […]
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