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10:50, July 21, 2007 |
Churkin said Moscow will continue to participate in the process actively, and will be participating in the Contact Group meeting in Vienna on July 25.
European Union foreign ministers will discuss Kosovo at their meeting on July 23.
Churkin denied accusations that Moscow is delaying the " dangerous status quo" in Kosovo. "We are not delay anything. We are preventing a solution ... which will be detrimental to international law and to the stability of the Balkans and internationally."
He was referring to UN special envoy Martti Ahtisaari''s plan to give Kosovo supervised independence in spite of Serbian objections.
The Ahtisaari plan was the basis of the draft resolution sponsored by the six Western countries, which insisted on Friday that the special envoy''s recommendations "provide the best solution that will advance stability not only in Kosovo but in the region as a whole" and that they should be the "base for any further discussions."
"We hope that these discussions will lead to agreement between the parties," the sponsors said in their joint statement. "If not, we continue to believe that the Ahtisaari Plan is the best way forward."
Chinese Ambassador Wang Guangya, the Security Council''s president for July, said the parties directly concerned should be given more time to conduct negotiations.
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