MOSCOW, July 3 (Reuters) - United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon overstepped his authority by scaling back the United Nations mission in Kosovo, Russian President Dmitry Medvedev said in an interview published on Thursday. "We were surprised by the position of the U.N. secretary-general, who, bypassing the U.N. Security Council, drafted a ... declaration on the need to replace these forces," Medvedev said in an interview with media outlets from Group of Eight countries before a G8 summit in Japan next week. "At the very least, these decisions should not be taken by the U.N secretary-general unilaterally, that is the competence of the Security Council," Medvedev said in the interview, a transcript of which was published early on Thursday on his official Internet site, www.kremlin.ru. "Secondly, it is fairly strange when...
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