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ITAR-TASS (RUSSIAN FEDERATION)

Russia's Lavrov says any supplies of weaponry to Kosovo illegitimate
20.03.2008, 23.40

TEL AVIV, March 20 (Itar-Tass) - Any supplies of weaponry to Kosovo are
illegitimate if they stand outside the format of the UN Security Council's
resolution 1244, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov told a news
conference here Thursday.

That resolution sets up the only legitimate framework for settling the
situation in Kosovo, he said.

"It doesn't allow creation of Kosovo's own Armed Forces or any supplies of
weaponry there, except for the weaponry needed by the international
contingent deployed there on the Security Council's mandate," Lavrov said.

"No doubt, we'll analyze what is happening in Kosovo now and I'd like to
think these supplies don't pursue the goal of coercion of the Serbs or other
ethnic minorities to remaining within the format of an illegally proclaimed
state," he said.

"I don't think this will add more stability to the Balkans, as the contrary
is more likely to happen then," Lavrov said.

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