By IRNA
Berlin : European Union chief diplomat Javier Solana dismissed criticism by Russian President Vladimir Putin who lambasted Kosovo’s independence declaration.
Talking to the Sunday daily Bild am Sonntag newspaper, Solana said, “The decision over the future status of Kosovo was inevitable and brings additional long-term stability to the region and thus for all of us.”
Putin on Friday labeled the declaration of independence by Kosovo as a “terrible precedent” that will come back to hit the West “in the face.”
“The precedent of Kosovo is a terrible precedent, which will de facto destroy the whole system of international relations, developed not over decades, but over centuries,” Putin said in televised remarks.
“They have not thought through the results of what they are doing.
At the end of the day it is a two-ended stick and the second end will come back and hit them in the face,” he added.