Russia Says It May Veto UN Measures on Kosovo

VOICE OF AMERICA ^ | 11 September 2006

[kronos77]

Russian President Vladimir Putin has raised the possibility his country may veto a United Nations Security Council decision on the status of Serbia's southern province of Kosovo

Mr. Putin told the Financial Times in an interview published Monday that if the solution is not acceptable to Moscow, Russia will not hold back from using its veto.

President Putin said his government wants the rules of international relations to be applied to all regions equally. He said it would be wrong to apply one rule for Kosovo and others for Abkhazia and South Ossetia, the two breakaway regions of Georgia.

Russia has warned repeatedly that sovereignty for the U.N.-administered Serbian province, as sought by Kosovo's ethnic Albanian majority, could influence developments in efforts to settle territorial disputes in areas of the former Soviet Union.

United Nations-mediated talks between Serbia and Kosovo Albanians have achieved no major progress. U.N. negotiators have said they plan to make a recommendation on future control of the province by the end of the year.

Kosovo has been under U.N. administration since 1999, when NATO airstrikes drove Serbian and Yugoslav security forces from the province.

[kronos77]

[kronos77]

Also wiew:

http://www.civil.ge/eng/article.php?id=13529


http://today.reuters.co.uk/news/newsArticle.aspx?type=worldNews&storyID=2006-09-11T131034Z_01_L11486859_RTRUKOC_0_UK-GEORGIA-RUSSIA.xml&archived=False

[Kolokotronis]

You know you can count on your Orthodox brothers !

[tomzz]

The three nations which I'd most like to have as allies in any sort of a war on slammite terrorism would be Britain, Israel, and Russia. It's mainly this KKKlintonista/Soros crap in the balkans which is poisoning relationships with Russia.

[Sergei_DV]

In 80th in Russia people where enthusiastic about possibility of better relation with USA. We remember American help during WWII. But in 90-th all went wrong. Those criminal Yeltsin's reforms have spoiled all. Destruction of country was worse, than after WWII. And West was accomplice in it.

[tomzz]

I remember reading about people starving in Russia in the late 90s.

The Clinton administration was being run by a dozen or so outright psychopaths including both Clintons, Wesley Clarke, Madelein Albright, Janet Reno, Paul Begala, George Soros, and several others. The democrat party is basically a criminal organization and a pure power trip with no principles whatsoever.

[kronos77]

Belgrade, 12 Sept. (AKI) - Serbia's government has said it is cheered by Russia's premier Vladimir Putin's recent comments apparently hinting his country could veto any "unacceptable" United Nations Security Council resolution, such as one backing independence for the breakaway province of Kosovo. Serbian government spokesman Srdjan Djuric hailed Putin's statement as a "principled stand, in harmony with the highest principles of international law," on the inviolability of the existing state borders. Belgrade's press on Tuesday ran banner headlines hailing Serbia's "Russian brothers." Former foreign minister, Goran Svilanovic, called for caution, however. He said the issue would never come before the UN Security Council - the organisation's top decision-making body - unless the decision was first agreed upon in the so-called Contact Group for Kosovo, which includes the United States, Great Britain, France, Germany, Italy and Russia. UN special envoy for Kosovo, Martti Ahtisaari, was due to present a report on progress in negotiations between Serbs and majority ethnic Albanians in Kosovo during a meeting of the Contact Group on Monday through Tuesday. Elena Guskova, a Russian academic and an expert on Balkans, told Belgrade media it was too early to say what the Russian position on Kosovo might ultimately be. On one hand, Kosovo's independence would grant the same rights to the people of the breakaway regions of South Ossetia and Abkhazia in the former Soviet republic of Georgia. But on the other hand, it could boost separatist movements in Russian republics such as Chechnya, she said. Putin - whose country is one of the UN Security Council's permanent five veto-wielding members, along with Britain, France, the US and China - was quoted on Monday by Britain's Financial Times newspaper as saying: "If we find the solution for Kosovo unacceptable, we will not hesitate to use our veto right in the UN Security Council." Putin's allegedly made the remarks last last Saturday at a dinner with a group of American and Russian journalists and businessmen at his residence in Moscow. But a Russian government official neither confirmed nor denied the statement, saying only he couldn’t recall the word "veto" being used. Putin reportedly said that the same yardstick should be applied to Kosovo and the former Soviet republics. "If a precedent is set, it will negatively reflect on the post-Soviet region and it will be difficult to explain to the peoples of South Ossetia and Abkhazia why Albanians (in Kosovo) can breakaway from Serbia and they cannot," he stated, quoted in the Financial Times. Ethnic Albanians in Kosovo say they will settle for nothing less than independence, but Belgrade opposes this, offering instead a form of wide local autonomy. It has warned that if the province secedes from Serbia, this would trigger a chain reaction in other disputed regions in Europe and throughout the world. Kosovo has been under UN control since 1999 and the world powers, including the United States, have hinted they are prepared to grant independence to Kosovo ethnic Albanians, who make a 1.7 million majority compared with just 100,000 Serbs remaining in the province. http://www.adnki.com/index_2Level_English.php?cat=Politics&loid=8.0.339251872&par=0

[DTA]

Becuause there will be two vetos in UNSC, chances are that Islamofascist supporters will try to bypass UN.

Condy was asleep at the wheel by allowing Clinton's Nicholas Burns to continue Clinton's policy regarding Serbian province of Kosovo.

When in hole, stop digging. Firing Burns would be the obvious choice to avoid the major embarrasment.

United States can be either against Islamofascists, or for Islamoifascists, not both. It is not possible to fight Islamofascists in one part of the world and suppoort them in another. It is perceived as a WEAKNESS in Islamic world.

[Tailgunner Joe]

Wow, Yeltsin killed more Russians than Hitler and Stalin combined? I had no idea. How did the liberal media keep it all under wraps?

[Tailgunner Joe]

Russia "may" veto? Well, are they against an independent Kosovo or not? Make up your minds, Russia.

[FormerLib]

Wow, Yeltsin killed more Russians than Hitler and Stalin combined?

What fool said that?

[Tailgunner Joe]

"Those criminal Yeltsin's reforms have spoiled all. Destruction of country was worse, than after WWII. And West was accomplice in it." - 6 posted on 09/12/2006 7:22:56 AM CDT by Sergei_DV

This explains "why they hate us!" It's all so clear now.

[FreedomCalls]

If Kosovo can get independence why can't Kurdistan?

[FreedomCalls]

He didn't say "during" WWII, he said "after" WWII. Which decade was better for Russians: the 1950s or the 1990s?

[Tailgunner Joe]

Stalin ruled for several years after WWII. I didn't realize that Russians benefited so greatly from Soviet Communism that they resent us for destroying it. I always thought the Russians were slaves and wanted to be freed from Communism. Oh well, Russia's loss is the rest of the world's gain.

[Semargl]

>Tailgunner Joe Wow, Yeltsin killed more Russians than Hitler and Stalin
combined? I had no idea. How did the liberal media keep it all under wraps?
No more but many.
Famine, cold, illnesses, underworld, the American advisers.
Thanks, comrade Yeltsin, for our happy childhood.
Stalin ruled for several years after WWII.
I didn't realize that Russians benefited so
greatly from Soviet Communism that they resent us for
destroying it. I always thought the
Russians were slaves and wanted to be freed from Communism.
Oh well, Russia's loss is the rest of the world's gain.
The USSR have destroyed not the USA, but some traitors.
Your tanks did not go across Moscow.
Slavery - destiny of the West. Time of slaveholders was
short in Russia.

FreedomCalls
Which decade was better for Russians: the 1950s or the 1990s?
1970-1980s

[Semargl]

Exchange of Kosovo for the Russians borders.
It is very a shame to read. But we too weak now to operate on another.
The government has simply sold Serbs.
Will their children accert the apology of our children for actions of parents ?

[Sergei_DV]

We do not hate you. We have big disappointment for your denial to acknowledge our kinship. In the years of Cold War communist propaganda told us, that people of America are descent people, they accomplishments are high, but America's politicians and big capital hate the USSR, for it is main obstacle for their dominance in the World. Today it is clear, communist or any other ideology does not matter for West altogether, it wants to see Russia dead and divided.

In 1982 one Leningrad's politologist writ, that Russia will be first to fight Islamic world, and all West will be against us.

Iron Curtain was semi-conductive: we all the time have listened your music, have seen your films. We have known your writers may be more, than you yourselves. You know about us next to nothing, besides Cold War rhetoric. BTW, do you know that in USSR there where very popular Baltian, Georgian, Ukrainian films and actors, pop- and national music of different our nations, their writers. They had big auditory. Our beloved places for vacations where Georgia, Caucasus, Crimea, Baltian coast. In summertime there was a problem to get tickets to planes and trains in that direction. From 1991 Russia subsidy to them through low oil and gas prices was about 50 billions dollars per year, millions of their citizens go to Russia to work, and send back earned money. West tries to make Russia's enemies from former Soviet Republics, it is interested in them only as cheap labor and cannon meat to use against Russia, and how we must feel about it?

[Sergei_DV]

I have meant not direct killings, sough they were plenty in form of civil war of low intensity, but destruction of industry, agriculture, degradation of electrical power system, railroads, dwelling, education and social service systems, depriving people of any means of existence because of joblessness and not paying for job. When you have no wages for months, when colds are below 40 C degrees, it is quite deadly.
Population in Russia alone diminished at 10% from 1991, and process goes on.
What told liberal media about incidents, when Azerbadjanian crowds gathered together Armenian families, poured them from fueling lorry, and set on fire, and many such things?
Because of that today for Stalin could vote about 30-40% of population. Could not even dream in nightmare about it.