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Removing the Following Quotations

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It further said that Russia fully supports Serbia's "territorial integrity" and that they expect both the United Nations and NATO will "take immediate action to fulfill their mandates as authorized by the Security Council, including voiding the decisions of Pristina's self-governing institutions and adopting severe administrative measures against them"

For the latter because there is no source (not to mention that it is grammatically incorrect to have a period outside quotations) for the former because if you place 'territorial integrity' in quotations marks you leaving a negative connotation, I could just as well place "Declaration of independence" in quotation marks and it would have the same effect. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 65.93.213.119 (talk) 04:45, 22 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]

I agree that the quotation marks around "territorial integrity" are perhaps a little unnecessary, but the marks around the "take immediate action..." text should remain. I have replaced them. You state that there is no source for this text, but there quite clearly is one given in the article. It is a direct warts-and-all quotation of a Russian MFA statement [1]. And you are wrong about the punctuation - see here. Bazonka (talk) 08:22, 22 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]