Rogozin: US shipments to Kosovo are pouring fuel on fire
The United States decision to deliver arms to Kosovo appears as an attempt to pour fuel on fire, Russia's Permanent Representative to NATO Dmitri Rogozin said after an informal meeting of the NATO-Russia Council held at ambassadorial level in Brussels.
(KosovoCompromise Staff) Monday, March 31, 2008
Rogozin said he was not aware that it was possible to douse a fire with kerosene.
"There is much weaponry in Kosovo, and the question raised at this point is how to seize these arms, not how to deliver more", Rogozin said.
This decision is in violation of United Nations Security Council Resolution 1244, which should lead to the disarming of ethnic Albanian armed groups and which instructs the local peacekeeping force KFOR to limit the inflow of arms to Kosovo.
It is particularly surprising that the decision was made following the recent bloody events in Kosovska Mitrovica, the Russian ambassador said.
