MOSCOW. April 11(Interfax) - Russia claimed on Thursday, citing "some Western media," that "international missions in Kosovo are plotting moves against the Kosovo Serbs designed to provoke retaliatory measures from them."
"Ground is being prepared for large-scale use of force against the Serb population of the province to make it put up with independence unilaterally proclaimed by Pristina," the Foreign Ministry said in a commentary posted on its website.
"If this is true information, it becomes obvious that the international missions in Kosovo have failed to draw lessons from the tragic events in [the Kosovo city of] Mitrovica in March of this year. Such measures are fraught with a rapid split of the province and a large-scale conflict in the region," the ministry said.
"We urge the international missions, the EU and NATO to responsibly weigh all the consequences of force-based measures of this kind and to act in a well-considered and balanced way and strictly within the limits of the mandates approved by the UN Security Council on the basis of its Resolution 1244," it said.