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ITAR-TASS (RUSSIAN FEDERATION) Events in Mitrovica are result of Kosovo independence - Kamynin 17.03.2008, 15.47 MOSCOW, March 17 (Itar-Tass) - Growing tensions in Mitrovica are a direct result of a unilateral declaration of independence by Kosovo and a protest of Serbs living in Kosovo against that illegitimate move, Russian Foreign Ministry spokesman Mikhail Kamynin said on Monday in reply to a query about the situation in Kosovo's Mitrovica. "The events in Mitrovica cannot be considered separately from all that is going on in the region," the diplomat said. "The growing of tension, first of all in Serb-populated regions, is a direct result of a unilateral declaration of independence by Pristina and reluctance of Serbs living in Kosovo to reconcile themselves with that illegitimate move," Kamynin added.
