Chepurin: Resolution 1244 regulates Kosovo status
Russian Ambassador to Serbia Alexander Chepurin said in Kosovska Mitrovica on Sunday that UN SC Resolution 1244 is the only document that regulates the status of Kosovo.
(kosovocompromisestuff) Monday, April 01, 2013
Regardless of what anyone is saying about a change in the situation, there is that one document and no other, by which the international community determined its position on Kosovo-Metohija, Chepurin said.
That is very important for Serbia, Chepurin said at a panel marking 110 years since the assassination of Russian consul Grigori Stepanovich Shcherbin in Kosovska Mitrovica during the Ottoman occupation.
He notes that Russia has been trying in every possible way to support the stand of Serbia, which does not recognize the unilaterally declared independence of Kosovo.
If tomorrow everyone recognized Kosovo, then it would be difficult to count on Serbs staying in the territory the day after tomorrow, the Russian diplomat said, underscoring that it is very important for an outcome of the dialogue that Belgrade and Kosovo Serbs take the joint stand.
The only way to resolve the status of Kosovo-Metohija, without international recognition, is through talks, Chepurin said.
The pressure of the major powers which want the recognition of Kosovo's independence could be endured by, as he put it, Russia and its close allies, several countries that are friends to Serbia and China.
The Russian ambassador talked with Director of the government office for Kosovo-Metohija Aleksandar Vulin, his deputy Krstimir Pantic and senior officials at the municipality of Kosovska Mitrovica.
Afterward, Chepurin and Vulin laid wreaths at the monument to the Russian consul in downtown Kosovska Mitrovica.
The Russian Empire opened a consulate in Kosovska Mitrovica in 1902, and appointed Shcherbin as consul with the aim of preventing constant Albanian attacks against Serbs.
As his efforts proved quite successful, the Russian consul was shot on March 31, 1903, during the Albanian insurgency and attacks against Serbs, and he died on April 10, aged 35.
That is very important for Serbia, Chepurin said at a panel marking 110 years since the assassination of Russian consul Grigori Stepanovich Shcherbin in Kosovska Mitrovica during the Ottoman occupation.
He notes that Russia has been trying in every possible way to support the stand of Serbia, which does not recognize the unilaterally declared independence of Kosovo.
If tomorrow everyone recognized Kosovo, then it would be difficult to count on Serbs staying in the territory the day after tomorrow, the Russian diplomat said, underscoring that it is very important for an outcome of the dialogue that Belgrade and Kosovo Serbs take the joint stand.
The only way to resolve the status of Kosovo-Metohija, without international recognition, is through talks, Chepurin said.
The pressure of the major powers which want the recognition of Kosovo's independence could be endured by, as he put it, Russia and its close allies, several countries that are friends to Serbia and China.
The Russian ambassador talked with Director of the government office for Kosovo-Metohija Aleksandar Vulin, his deputy Krstimir Pantic and senior officials at the municipality of Kosovska Mitrovica.
Afterward, Chepurin and Vulin laid wreaths at the monument to the Russian consul in downtown Kosovska Mitrovica.
The Russian Empire opened a consulate in Kosovska Mitrovica in 1902, and appointed Shcherbin as consul with the aim of preventing constant Albanian attacks against Serbs.
As his efforts proved quite successful, the Russian consul was shot on March 31, 1903, during the Albanian insurgency and attacks against Serbs, and he died on April 10, aged 35.
