Russia to EU: Don t impose solutions (Russia against Kosovo Islamists)

http://www.b92.net/eng/news/politics-article.php?yyyy=2006&mm=10&dd=08&nav_id=37212 ^

[kronos77]

BRUSSELS, MOSCOW -- Russia told the EU Kosovo solution cannot be imposed on Serbia.

Moscow also said it would not support such a solution neither within the Contact Group nor in the UN Security Council. Beta has learned that Moscow believes negotiations on a solution acceptable to both parties should be continued in 2007, if one cannot be reached in 2006.

Sources in Brussels have confirmed that the Russian position has been relayed to some Contact Group partners as well as to Martti Ahtisaari. The Russian message states that the Contact Group has asked Ahtisaari to provide a comprehensive solution proposal, to be debated by the Group first.

Russia informed that this was acceptable, if following the Contact Group debate, this proposal was to be submitted to Priština and Belgrade with the aim of encouraging both sides to improve the negotiating process.

Sources in Brussels also say that Moscow sent a sort of a demarche to the Finnish EU presidency, emphasizing its position that the Contact Group, by authorizing Ahtisaari to work out a proposal, in no way meant to impose a solution on Serbia. Russia also explained that any suggestion, such as denying Serbia’s rights of a sovereign country, thus undermining the negotiations with Belgrade, was untenable.

European diplomatic sources, unwilling to confirm or deny the existence of the Russian message to the EU, suggested that the majority of the EU 25 member states favored a compromise solution for Kosovo, meaning an essentially limited sovereignty for the province, without a seat at the UN.

[kronos77]

[kronos77]

Aktisaari, things are going bad, dont they... well, Finland isnt such a superpower after all...

[Bokababe]

Russia understands the problem and the US is just beginning to get it.

[A. Pole]

Bump

[Bokababe]

Good article on Ahtsaari (born "Adolfsen") here: http://byzantinesacredart.com/blog/2006/09/blame-serbs.html

[George W. Bush]

Expel the Kosovar Muslims.

I can't believe people still fall for the Xlinton/Carter style of diplomacy where you first surrender, destroy human rights and democracy, then fund a terror state (see N. Korea).

Given the U.N.'s role in this disaster, this needs to be more fully exposed. The U.N. is never the answer. It is usually the problem.

[George W. Bush]

I'd like to urge you to keep posting these Kosovo threads. It takes so few Americans pressuring their Senators or Foggy Bottom to make a huge difference, as you thread yesterday pointed out.

Ordinary American citizens can often change our foreign policy if they unite at a key moment and bring pressure to bear.

[oilfieldtrash]

Adolfsen. Was he Norwegian? I know alot of Norwegians with that name.

[G8 Diplomat]

Yeah that does sound like a Norwegian surname