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By Peter Fedynsky
Moscow
02 April 2008



Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov says Moscow can use its seat on the Security Council to block Kosovo's membership in the United Nations.  The statement coincides with the arrival in Belgrade of the first planeload of Russian humanitarian 1 aid for Kosovo's Serb minority.  VOA Correspondent Peter Fedynsky reports from the Russian capital.


Addressing lawmakers in Russia's lower house of parliament, the State Duma, Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said increased tensions in Serbian areas of Kosovo and general dissatisfaction in Serbia is the direct result of what he called irresponsible and short-sighted policies aimed at the unilateral declaration on Kosovo's independence. 


Lavrov accused the European Union of sanctioning and encouraging that independence.


Lavrov says that Russia, as a permanent member of the U.N. Security Council, is in a position not to allow Kosovo to become a full-fledged member of the United Nations.  There is, he adds, no way around this.


Political analyst 2 Alexei Malashenko of the Moscow Carnegie Center says Russia can count on a few former Soviet 3 republics, such as Kazakhstan, to support its position on Kosovo in the United Nations.  But he notes that the threat of a veto no longer has the impact it did when Moscow's Security Council seat was held by the Soviet Union. 


Malashenko says Russia will have a difficult time enforcing its opposition 4, particularly if a majority of U.N. members favor Kosovo's admission.  He says Russia and Serbia will need to go beyond words to deal with the political realities of Kosovo's independence.


Malashenko says Belgrade will ultimately need to back down, because its future is with Europe.  Serbia's relations with Russia, he says, represent a tactic 5, adding that Belgrade and Moscow would both like to find a compromise solution on Kosovo.


Meanwhile, the first shipment of Russian humanitarian assistance, including children's food, arrived in Belgrade for delivery to Kosovo's Serb minority.  Russia plans to send two or three more planeloads, for a total of 140 tons.  Critics say the assistance is of little consequence and merely represents a public relations campaign.




n.人道主义者,博爱者,基督凡人论者
  • She has many humanitarian interests and contributes a lot to them.她拥有很多慈善事业,并作了很大的贡献。
  • The British government has now suspended humanitarian aid to the area.英国政府现已暂停对这一地区的人道主义援助。
n.分析家,化验员;心理分析学家
  • What can you contribute to the position of a market analyst?你有什么技能可有助于市场分析员的职务?
  • The analyst is required to interpolate values between standards.分析人员需要在这些标准中插入一些值。
adj.苏联的,苏维埃的;n.苏维埃
  • Zhukov was a marshal of the former Soviet Union.朱可夫是前苏联的一位元帅。
  • Germany began to attack the Soviet Union in 1941.德国在1941年开始进攻苏联。
n.反对,敌对
  • The party leader is facing opposition in his own backyard.该党领袖在自己的党內遇到了反对。
  • The police tried to break down the prisoner's opposition.警察设法制住了那个囚犯的反抗。
n.战略,策略;adj.战术的,有策略的
  • Reducing prices is a common sales tactic.降价是常用的销售策略。
  • She had often used the tactic of threatening to resign.她惯用以辞职相威胁的手法。
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actinocarp
aerodrome beacon
aerodynamic rocket
airdashes
amphigen
antiglycolytic
anula
arriviste
asdic control room
baldassares
bilimbi
billygoats
bodily secretion
bonus scheme
borten abtanz (rumania)
broad band light source
center distance of riser
chromodoris odhneri
Comessatti test
cornsmut
Cotoneaster gracilis
curtain neat
cybervulnerability
Darién, Sa.del
day before day before yesterday
derbends
direct effects assumption
duplex chilled
electrotechnics
emergency category
English strong ale
entropion forceps
fagus lucida rehd. & wils
feather-cone fir
fermentation inhibitor
flick through sth
fluke worm
fund-raise
genus bruckenthalias
geomicrobiologist
glauming
Green Mountain State
growth-blocking peptide
guide-shoe
i-wone
iccu
inotropism
inscribed polygons
iron pail
iwill
Kalābishah
kazembe
Lauth's ligaments
lipsha
make a present of something to someone
marine microbial morphology
mass merchandiser
mesarch xylem
miskatonic
mittelstadt
mobile-unit truck
moving-coil type relay
Namukumbo
nevills
niggets
nonsmiles
oberlin
oops
pentaamine
pepperoni roll
petiolus epiglottidis
phloxin
picked her up
pilot frame
plottered
postmodern
puroclast
Rajasa
recovering expansion energy
red sorghum
reed tachometer
refractory-lined ovens
right opposite
Rodferon-A
row scanning
school counselor
semicarotenone
social objectives
spare attachment
standing wave voltage ratio (swvr)
streambuf
suchlikest
suffocate
sunitizing
t-i
tartaric acid solution
The Party Claiming in General Average
tombestere
two-dimensional state of stress
ultravisuscope
Xiphydria
zoomancy