MOSCOW, January 30 (RIA Novosti) - Russian President Vladimir Putin said Monday that the six-nation Contact Group monitoring international policy in Kosovo must make universal decisions as conflicts remain unresolved in the former socialist camp.
"We must not follow the way of applying some principles to solve one problem and others to solve another," Putin said at a government session.
The Contact Group, which includes the United States, the UK, France, Germany, Italy and Russia, will be in session at the level of foreign ministers in London in the coming days.
Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said that during preparatory work, certain parties had tried to specify in the Group's documents that Kosovo, which has been administered as a UN protectorate since the end of NATO's military campaign in the region in June 1999, "is a unique case which cannot serve as a precedent".
Lavrov said the session in London would be an important stage in the talks to determine Kosovo's final status.
"We will be seeking a decision that would be acceptable for both Kosovar leaders and Belgrade. It is not a simple objective because Albanian leaders in Kosovo asserted that they would be satisfied with nothing but independence, which contradicts the decisions of the UN Security Council," Lavrov said.
He urged the world community to encourage the parties to seek a mutually acceptable decision.
