Russia will demand from the United Nations Security Council to annul any unilateral declaration of independence of Kosovo, Russia's envoy to Kosovo independence talks, Alexander Botsan-Kharchenko said.

“Russia will of course demand the annulment of such a decision. We will demand a meeting of the Security Council because it would be a violation of a Council resolution,” he said as quoted by Agence France-Presse (AFP).

Russia, along with the EU and US, is holding negotiations with Kosovo and Serbia on the future status of Kosovo. Russia was a traditional alley of Serbia and opposed Kosovo's independence, insisting on negotiations to be prolonged, AFP said.

The parties had to come up with a decision that would be acceptable to all by December 10 2007.

Meanwhile, Kosovo's main political parties announced that they would begin negotiations on a coalition government to lead the province to a declaration of independence from Serbia in early 2008, Reuters reported.

“The Democratic Party of Kosovo of prime minister-apparent Hashim Thaci invited the Democratic League of Kosovo (LDK) to set aside their bitter rivalry since the 1998-99 war and discuss the formation of a ‘grand coalition’,” Reuters said.

Thaci’s party won the parliamentary election in Kosovo on November 17, but had been waited until the failure of the negotiations, to invite LDK for participation in a coalition. LDK representative told Reuters that the party agreed on the talks.