Russia supports Serbia's stance on the necessity to fully apply the existing UN Security Council resolution on Kosovo, which was adopted in 1999, he said.
We're very interested in the situation in Serbia and the Balkans in general, because the stability may be affected by any attempt to impose a solution, for example, by unilateral recognition of Kosovo's independence, Lavrov told reporters after meeting Serbian President Boris Tadic.
He said that Russia had launched an initiative for a UN fact-finding mission to be sent to Belgrade and Kosovo to see for themselves that Resolution 1244 had not been fulfilled, so that the matter could be later discussed in the Security Council.