Serbia considers Kosovo as an unalienable part of its territory and wishes to continue the search for a solution to the Kosovo issue through peaceful means only, compromise and agreements, Chairman of the Serbian parliament Committee on KiM, Milovan Drecun said in the talks with Chairman of the Russian State Duma Foreign Affairs Committee Alexey Pushkov. Serbia's foundation for the Kosovo's status rests on UN Security Council Resolution 1244, Drecun underscored during the meeting of the Serbian parliament Committee on KiM and the delegation of the Russian State Duma Foreign Affairs Committee.

The attempt of those who orchestrated the separation of Kosovo without a referendum to doubt the expression of the will of the citizens of Crimea is "absurd." "Russia's position on the Kosovo issue is absolutely clear and unchanging: it is only possible to regulate this problem on the basis of international law and within the framework set out in UN Security Council Resolution 1244." "As for Belgrade's efforts in this direction - we find those decisions that will satisfy Serbia acceptable.

James Ker-Lindsay, director of the Centre for Southeast Europe of a London School of Economics says that Belgrade must take into account its relations with Moscow until a final solution for Kosovo and Metohija  In the West, it is often represented that the countries in the Western Balkans are more inclined to Russia, but we who follow Balkan region we know that this is not true, that the loyalty of the countries is much more on the side of the West.

Russia's partners in the West should pay attention to NATO's 1999 bombing of Serbia, to Kosovo, and the breakup of Libya, "and not just to Crimea." Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov made this statement on Tuesday, TASS reported. "Concerning international law and the attention that it has received lately, primarily in relation to Crimea, we would like our Western partners to treat other cases that have occurred in modern history no less diligently," he said. The Russian official added Moscow was "consistently committed to respecting international law in the full capacity of its objectiv

From the moment relations between the West and Russia became more harsh and started to resemble to the renewal of the Cold War, increased the pressures from both sides on Serbia to choose the side.

BELGRADE - The cases of Crimea and Kosovo, whose declaration of independence opened room for redrawing of borders in the world and served as encouragement for secessionist movements, should not be viewed in equal light, participants said during the debate entitled 'From Kosovo to Crimea: Unilateral moves and manipulation involving the right to self-determination'. Russian Ambassador in Belgrade Alexander Chepurin listed four reasons why an equation mark must not be put between the two cases.