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Independence is Only Solution for Kosovo, Un Envoy to Insist
The UN envoy seeking to settle the Kosovo conflict between Serbia and ethnic Albanians will tell the UN security council next week for the first time that independence is the only viable option for the province in the southern Balkans. Martti Ahtisaari, the former Finnish president, who has been vainly seeking to mediate a deal between the Serbian government and the ethnic Albanian leadership for more than a year, is to present his settlement terms to the security council in New York on Monday. He will say that eight years of international administration of Kosovo has to be ended, that the province cannot return to Serbian sovereignty, and that the time has come to settle Kosovo's status. However, Russia has threatened to veto the plan if it was opposed by any party. "If there are attempts to impose on the Serbs something which is unacceptable to them, that would be unacceptable to us as well," Sergei Lavrov, the foreign minister, told the Russian parliament. Posted by: Fred 2007-03-22 |
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