The first flight of humanitarian aid from Russia to Kosovo Serbs arrived Wednesday morning in Serbian capital of Belgrade.
The 140-ton aid, including food and medicine, will be dispatched to Kosovo Serbs by the Serbian Red Cross in cooperation with international organizations in Kosovo, the official Tanjug news agency reported.
This is the first of four flights of aid scheduled over the next 10 days. Russia announced the aid worth 1.7 million U.S. dollars to Kosovo Serbs following the U.S. decision to send arms to Kosovo last month.
Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Vladimir Titov, meanwhile, rejected Kosovo authorities' demand that the aid should be sent in coordination with Pristina.
"The institutions in Pristina, which unilaterally declared independence and violated the agreed-upon principles for solving the Kosovo question, are not legitimate in our opinion," the minister said.
Kosovo, a southern autonomous province within Serbia before the breakup of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, declared independence on Feb. 17. The U.S. and most EU member states have formally recognized Kosovo as a country, while Serbia and its ally Russia strongly oppose the unilateral declaration of independence.
Source: Xinhua
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