A Russian Emergencies Ministry convoy carrying humanitarian aid, blocked earlier on the border between Serbia and Kosovo, has resumed its way, a spokesman for the ministry said on Friday. A total of 25 trucks carrying electric generators, blankets, clothes, food and cooking gear were blocked by the European Union Mission in Kosovo (EULEX) after rejecting [...]
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December 16, 2011
October 5, 2011
NATO ‘violated’ UN mandate in Kosovo clashes
NATO peacekeepers have “no right” to use force against ethnic Serbs in the north of Kosovo, Russia says. Last month, 16 ethnic Serbs and four soldiers from the NATO-led KFOR peacekeeping force were hurt in clashes over the Jarinje border crossing with Serbia. Serbia said NATO’s actions were “absolutely unacceptable.” The alliance insists its soldiers [...]
September 28, 2011
Time to abolish no-fly zone over Libya – Lavrov
Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov declared that the time has come to abolish the no-fly zone over Libya. “We think that additional steps, including the cancellation of the no-fly zone, should be taken,” Lavrov stated during a speech to the 66th General Assembly of the United Nations in New York. The UN Security Council, he [...]
September 16, 2011
Russia protests UN refusal to discuss Kosovo
Russia’s ambassador to Serbia walked out of a UN Security Council meeting in Belgrade to protest the participants’ refusal to discuss Kosovo. Meanwhile, NATO’s chief vowed that the alliance would not let the Balkan region slip back into violence. “I am most surprised,” Aleksandr Konuzin, the Russian ambassador, told the gathering in Belgrade. “NATO, KFOR [...]