>From: Rick Rozoff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >Time for UN Security Council to Revisit Kosovo Issue, >Says Ivanov > >OTTAWA, Sep 13, 2000 -- (Agence France Presse) The >United Nations Security Council will have to review >the situation in Kosovo and come up with an action >plan to implement its previous decisions, Russian >Foreign Minister Igor Ivanov said Tuesday. > >After meeting with Canadian Foreign Minister Lloyd >Axworthy, Ivanov reiterated Russian opposition to the >holding of local elections in the Yugoslav province. > >He said that both Canada and Russia supported UN >Resolution 1244 which, among other things, confirms >Yugoslav sovereignty over the territory. > >"Unfortunately," Ivanov told a press conference, "the >events in Kosovo are a cause for concern. > >"The Security Council should take urgent steps to stop >the negative developments that we have been >witnessing. > >"The situation in Kosovo is not conducive to holding >local elections at this time," he added. > >Ivanov said that UN Resolution 1244 insisted that any >elections in Kosovo must be "democratic, free and open >to all parts of the electorate." > >Those conditions, he said, do no exist because there >were still 200,000 Serbs, Gypsies and others who >remained expelled from Kosovo. > >Under these conditions, he said, "talk of elections >would be a mockery." ((c) 2000 Agence France Presse) > > >__________________________________________________ >Do You Yahoo!? >Yahoo! Mail - Free email you can access from anywhere! >http://mail.yahoo.com/ > > >______________________________________________________________________ >To unsubscribe, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >Start Your Own FREE Email List at http://www.listbot.com/links/joinlb _______________________________________________________ KOMINFORM P.O. Box 66 00841 Helsinki - Finland +358-40-7177941, fax +358-9-7591081 e-mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.kominf.pp.fi _______________________________________________________ Kominform list for general information. Subscribe/unsubscribe messages to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Anti-Imperialism list for anti-imperialist news. Subscribe/unsubscribe messages: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________________
