Russia supports Serbia's Kosovo solution
Aug. 7, 2006 at 12:27PM
A Russian government minister said Monday Moscow supports Serbia's stand to
keep Kosovo as an autonomous Serbian province.
Sergey Shoygu, the Russian minister for civil defense and emergency
situations, told Serbian Prime Minister Vojislav Kostunica the position of
Russia and President Vladimir Putin is that Kosovo's future status must not be
imposed, nor should talks about Kosovo's future have a time limit.
Shoygu said the best solution for Kosovo is to remain an autonomous
province within Serbia's borders, the RTS Serbian radio-television reported.
Kostunica applauded Putin's stand on Kosovo and said the Serbian
government's position is based on the fact that Kosovo has been and should
remain part of Serbia forever. Kosovo was a part of the Kingdom of Serbia until
it was annexed under the Ottoman Empire and many of its Albanians converted to
Islam. It was reunited with Serbia at the dawn of World War I.
U.N.-led talks between Serbia and Kosovo's ethnic Albanian majority on
who shall govern the province once the United Nations and NATO troops leave
have been held in Vienna since February. But no major breakthrough has been
reached.
The Serbian government in Belgrade, representing Kosovo's 100,000 Serbs,
insists no independent Kosovo is acceptable, while leaders of ethnic Albanians,
who make up 90 percent of Kosovo's 1.8 million population, insist on a Kosovo
independent of Belgrade.
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