By IRNA
New York : The United Nations Security Council failed to reach an agreement on the future status of Kosovo.
The second session of the council’s emergency meeting ended after two and a half hours without agreement on a resolution or joint statement regarding declaration of independence by Kosovo’s ethnic Albanian majority.
Russia and China, two veto-wielding members of the Security Council, back Serbia.
The other veto members, the United States, Britain and France, have recognized Kosovo.
Serbian President Boris Tadic said that Serbia saw Kosovo’s secession as violation of international law and urged the Security Council to avoid setting a precedent.
UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon told the Council the UN mission in Kosovo, UNMIK, would remain there.
In response to reporters’ questions later, he declined to say whether he thought Kosovo’s independence declaration was legal or not.