"Since the collapse of Yugoslavia, the West has wanted to take Kosovo from Serbia," Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said in a documentary film dedicated to the 25th anniversary of the NATO attack against Serbia, broadcast on Serbian media.
Lavrov said that since 1991, the dissolution of Yugoslavia and the separation of Kosovo from Serbia were in the West's plans.
"NATO's aggression has its roots in 1998, when the Belgrade authorities took control of this Serbian region. Terrorist attacks began there and the Kosovo Liberation Army was formed. There is evidence and testimony that it was financed by the Americans and Germans," Larov said.
"Everyone remembers the famous "Primakov Turn," but not everyone knows that the decision to bomb Belgrade was made in Washington before his plane took off."
"They were hoping that Primakov would fly in and thereby legitimize the actions of the United States and the North Atlantic Alliance. But that didn't happen," he added.
He recalled that the turning point in March 1999 preceded many events that radically and symbolically changed Russia's foreign policy.
"Resolution 1244 was adopted. From the first days of its unanimous adoption, the West sabotaged practically all key issues," the Russian minister explained, underlining that there is a global goal – to draw the entire Balkans into NATO and then into the European Union.
(Balkan Web)
