MOSCOW, May 26 (AFP) - Moscow ruled out any partition of Kosovo as a means of solving the Balkans crisis after top Russia-US talks here Wednesday on the conflict produced few signs of a breakthrough. Russia stressed that any peace deal in the Balkans must respect Yugoslavia's sovereignty and again pressed NATO to halt its bombing campaign, which has entered a third month. But US officials told Russia the campaign would go on until Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic pulled out all his forces from the separatist province. Russian Foreign Minister Igor Ivanov urged NATO to end its bombing campaign meant to punish Milosevic for his crackdown in the separatist province and ruled out any partition of Kosovo. "There is no partition of Kosovo under discussion," Ivanov was quoted as saying by ITAR-TASS. "Nobody plans to divide Kosovo, and that kind of talk is misleading. "We have documents stating that the Kosovo problem can be resolved only by keeping Yugoslavia's sovereignty and territorial integrity," Ivanov said. US Deputy Secretary of State Strobe Talbott insisted after meeting Ivanov that NATO must form the "core" of any future presence in Kosovo, and excluded the presence of armed Serb forces in Kosovo following the conflict's end. The exchange came as NATO bombed Serbian television headquarters in Novi Sad for the third time and pounded oil, water and electricity installations elsewhere in Yugoslavia. NATO members had decided earlier to boost the number of troops earmarked for a future Kosovo peace force from 28,000 to 45,000. Moscow, sympathetic to Belgrade, wants NATO to allow Yugoslavia to keep a small armed force in the separatist province once a ceasefire is called. The US pointman on Russian relations hinted that NATO may support a minimal Serb presence in Kosovo following a full pullout. After "Belgrade completes the withdrawal of troops (from Kosovo), the international community may stop and think about how to let some Belgrade officials come back to the region," Talbott was quoted as saying by Interfax. Following his encounter with the US official, in Moscow for the third time in 10 days, Ivanov departed for Sweden for talks with UN Secretary General Kofi Annan. "We will discuss Kosovo and the status of efforts to come to a general and common position," Annan said in a statement in Stockholm. "I can't say that we will have peace tomorrow, and we need to do some more work." Talbott also met face-to-face with the Kremlin's Kosovo envoy Viktor Chernomyrdin ahead of launching three-way talks which included Finnish President Martti Ahtisaari. In Rome, Italy and Britain pledged full support for Moscow's trilateral meeting, Italian Foreign Ministers Lamberto Dini saying NATO should be at the prepared in case the negotiations succeeded. "When we reach an agreement, there should not be a vacuum. We decided that to achieve this the (NATO) force should be adapted to the new situation," said Dini. British Foreign Secretary Robin Cook later flew to Bonn where he had talks with his German counterpart Joschka Fischer on the Kosovo crisis. The two ministers represent divergent points of view within NATO, with Britain calling for a ground invasion of Kosovo if necessary while Germany says it would oppose this. "I do not share the pessimistic assumption that we will not reach an agreement" to end the Kosovo war, said Fischer. The make-up of the future force was the subject of detailed discussions between US specialists in Moscow who accompanied Talbott to the Russian capital. The West insists on deployment of a credible force to protect the return of the province's ethnic Albanian refugees. The command and make-up of the force is the main stumbling block to Belgrade's endorsement of a peace blueprint drawn up by the Group of Seven leading industrial countries and Russia. Yugoslavia is opposed to letting NATO take a leading role in the force and also demands a halt to the alliance's air onslaught before it starts any negotiations. Chernomyrdin for his part could leave on Thursday to meet Milosevic in Belgrade, Chernomyrdin's spokesman has said.  