UN not to settle Kosovo's status

PanARMENIAN.Net - The United States and European countries decided not to put the question of Kosovo's future status to the vote in the UN Security Council. Instead, they decided to initiate talks between Belgrade and Priština. Great Britain's Ambassador to the United Nations Emir Jones Perry stated there is no sense in putting the draft resolution on Kosovo to the vote, since Russia opposes the document. Perry says, it is necessary to negotiate with Serbia on the issue, which is against Kosovo's independence, as well as with the leadership of Kosovo himself.



Earlier Prime Minister of Kosovo Agim Çeku stated the province would declare his independence from Serbia on 28th of November, a symbolic day for Albanian nationalists. Çeku underlined that he calls on to declare independence unilaterally.



Generally, the West supports claims of the Albanian majority of Kosovo to grant independence to the province from Serbia; however, the EU opposes unilateral actions by Priština. Russia, however, insists that Serbia's opinion must be taken into account in this issue. Russia has refused to participate in works of a new, third variant of draft UN SC resolution on Kosovo, which western diplomats called the "last effort" to reach agreement with Moscow on the future of the breakaway province.



Kosovo with a 90% ethnic Albanian population is under the UN administration since 1999, when NATO bombings forced Serbian troops to leave the province. According to Albanian media commanders of former Liberation Army of Kosovo made it clear they are ready to resume their armed struggle if the issue to grant independence to the province will be dragged out, the BBC Russian service reports.