(12 May 1999) Russian/Nat
Both Russia and China have called on NATO to halt the air campaign against Yugoslavia while efforts to negotiate a solution continue.
Returning to Moscow from Beijing, Russia's special envoy to Kosovo Viktor Chernomyrdin said he had new proposals to put forward to American envoy Strobe Talbot.
Both men will be meeting on Wednesday in Moscow.
Russia and China have been united in voicing their outrage over NATO's bombing of the Chinese embassy in Belgrade on Friday.
Returning from his trip to Beijing later in the day, ex-premier Viktor Chernomyrdin said NATO must stop bombing Yugoslavia before peace talks can begin.
The Russian special envoy on the Kosovo crisis had agreed the common position with the Chinese leadership.
Russia wants NATO to respond positively to Yugoslavia's "goodwill" gesture of a partial troop withdrawal from Kosovo.
But NATO leaders have greeted reports of the withdrawal with skepticism.
Chernomyrdin said it was time for NATO to compromise.
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"The Yugoslav side is ready to compromise is taking the first steps in the right direction. What we need is for the other side (NATO) to understand that they will have to compromise sooner or later."
SUPER CAPTION: Viktor Chernomyrdin, Russian envoy to the Balkans
Chernomyrdin visited Beijing in the wake of Friday's accidental bombing by NATO of the Chinese embassy in Belgrade.
He was trying to persuade China, a permanent member of the U-N Security Council, from blocking an agreement Russia reached on a Kosovo strategy last week with the seven major industrialised powers.
He said that Russian and Chinese views on solving the crisis basically boiled down to the same thing.
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