To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs if he will make a statement on his Department's response to Russian objections to Chapters 2 and 7 of the Rambouillet text. [77156]

The draft interim political agreement on Kosovo remains the subject of negotiation at the current peace talks in Paris. It would not therefore be helpful to comment on specific aspects of the agreement, or on the views of individual Contact Group members, at this critical stage.