Putin kills the Ahtisaari Kosovo Independence Plan at UN Security Council - for now.

Russia's UN Ambassador Vitaly Churkin (pic) called the UN Kosovo plan a "closed chapter" as the draft resolution on Kosovo's future was withdrawn from UN Security Council debate today. He called the UN Kosovo plan a "closed chapter" ,as without using the word "veto" he explained that .."Our attitude to the [UN envoy Martti] Ahtisaari plan is known. "

"We have ensured that the negotiations continue; we have ensured that a resolution unacceptable to Russia and Belgrade was not approved," Churkin said.

"We are not delaying anything; we are preventing a solution... which in our view would have been detrimental to international law and to the stability of the Balkans."

The cosponsors of the resolution now plan to continue talks in the Contact Group on Kosovo, within which the U.K., France, Italy, Germany, the United States and Russia will meet in Vienna on July 25.