Russian Ambassador to Serbia Alexander Botsan-Kharchenko has said that the definitive solution to the Kosovo issue should be determined in the U.N. Security Council with a new resolution to replace Resolution 1244.
The Security Council's unflagging attention to the subject of Kosovo is one of the conditions for solving this problem, Botsan-Kharchenko told the May 9 issue of the Politika daily.
He said that only Belgrade and Pristina could assess the currency of the idea of "partitioning Kosovo," or any other.
According to him, a sustainable denouement to the Kosovo issue is achievable only as a result of weighing the balance of mutual interests and compromise -- based on international law, without designs or timelines imposed from the outside.
The chief criterion for us is that the solution must be acceptable to Serbia, Botsan-Kharchenko stressed.
Asked about the possibility of Russia officially joining the talks on Kosovo, he said the first thing needed for that to happen was an invitation from Belgrade.
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