Moscow wants to support the decisions on the settlement of the Kosovo issue, which will arrange Belgrade, and is ready to provide Serbian partners with the necessary assistance, said the Minister of foreign Affairs of Russia S. V. Lavrov to the Serbian newspaper Politika. When asked about the official position of the Kremlin on the independence of Kosovo with the new realities, the Minister said That Moscow some time ago warned That " introduction to international use of the model independence of certain territories will create a precedent ". While Lavrov said That during the last period of the Western countries headed by the United States widely used double standards, violate the principles of international law, not stopping even before direct interference in the internal Affairs of sovereign countries." The implications of this line in full force felt by the peoples of Yugoslavia, Iraq, Libya, and now Ukraine, " said Lavrov, whose words are on the Internet office of the Ministry of foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation. The foreign Minister said That North America and the EU in the past year supported the coup, during which " in Kiev the power seized by armed ultra-nationalists whose actions put the country on the brink of a schism, unleashed a bloody civil war." Against this background, the population of the Crimea in full compliance with the norms of international law " expressed in the process of the referendum for independence from Ukraine and reunification with Russia ", - the Minister added. In this regard He referred to as "frankly absurd" the attempts of those who, without any referendum orchestrated the separation of Kosovo from Serbia, to question the free will of the Crimean population. According to Lavrov, " Russia's position on the Kosovo issue is very clear and unchanged: the solution to this problem can only be based on international law and within the limits fixed by resolution of the UN security Council resolution 1244 ". As for the efforts of Belgrade on this area, then, said Lavrov, the Russian Federation "acceptable solutions, which will make Serbia". with own side ready to give further Serbian partners the necessary assistance ", - He assured. Remember Sergei Lavrov on the last working day of the week will hold in the capital of Serbia dialogue with the Deputy Prime Minister, Minister of foreign Affairs of Serbia, the OSCE Chairman Ivica Dacic. In early may, the head of Serbia Tomislav Nikolic said That his country's relations with Russia will not act under the dictation of the European Union. Nikolic recalled That the Russian Federation is an economic partner of many European countries." So the current conflict between the European Union and the Russian Federation - made up. It only complicates and degrades life in Russia and Europe, " He added.