UN envoy
to Kosovo urges swift resolution of province’s permanent
status
13 December – Resolving Kosovo’s future status as
soon as possible would bring benefits to the entire Balkan region,
while any further delays would only raise tensions and help
the cause of extremists, the senior United Nations envoy to
the province told the Security Council today. FULL
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Over
half Kosovo’s missing accounted for, mostly through body
identification –UN
6 December – Over half of the more than 5,200 people reported
missing in Kosovo after the 1998-99 conflict have been accounted
for, mostly through identification of their remains, but concerns
for those still missing is one of the most pressing issues in
the ethnic Albanian-majority Serbian province, the United Nations
mission there said today. FULL
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Departing
UN aid chief urges Security Council to never falter in defending
civilians
4 December – Although there has been a steady decline
in the number of conflicts in the past 15 years, violent attacks
against civilians have surged over the same period, the top
United Nations humanitarian official told the Security Council
today. FULL
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Kosovo
Albanians, Serbia still ‘diametrically opposed’
on province’s future – Annan
30 November – Kosovo’s ethnic Albanian Government
and Serbia remain “diametrically opposed” in their
views of the future status of the Serbian province, which that
the United Nations has run ever since Western forces drove out
Yugoslav troops in 1999 amid ethnic fighting, according to Secretary-General
Kofi Annan’s latest report on the issue released today.
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Kosovo: pro-independence
protesters attack UN headquarters; no injuries
29 November – Some 2,000 members of a pro-independence
ethnic Albanian group in Kosovo attacked United Nations personnel
yesterday in the Serbian province’s capital, Pristina,
pulling down a 4-metre tall concrete barricade outside UN headquarters
and hurling concrete blocks and an incendiary device at police
officers inside.FULL
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Kosovo:
UN envoy urges leaders to avoid ‘unilateral actions’
after delay on final status
13 November – Just days after a United Nations proposal
for the future of Kosovo was postponed, the top UN envoy there
warned its leaders against talk of “unilateral actions”
in the Albanian-majority Serbian province that the world body
has run since Western forces drove out Yugoslav troops in 1999
amid ethnic fighting. FULL
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Kosovo:
UN envoy puts off presenting final status proposal till after
Serb poll in January
10 November – A United Nations proposal for the future
status of the Albanian-majority Serbian province of Kosovo,
which the world body has run Western forces drove out Yugoslav
troops in 1999 amid ethnic fighting, will not be presented until
after Serbia’s parliamentary elections on 21 January.
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