Kosovo: UN envoy on final status talks
calls for more progress on key goals
28 November 2005 – The United
Nations special envoy for the future status talks on Kosovo
today called for greater progress in meeting key goals that
include building democratic institutions and enforcing minority
rights in the ethnically divided Serbian province which the
world body has administered since 1999.FULL
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Kosovo: Annan's envoy on final status
talks meets with Serbia's leaders
25 November 2005 – Secretary-General Kofi Annan's special
envoy on the final status of Kosovo has met with Serbia's leaders
to discuss the future of the Serbian province, which the United
Nations has run since Western forces drove out Yugoslav troops
amid grave human rights abuses in fighting between majority
Albanians and Serbs in 1999.FULL
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Kosovo: Annan's envoy on final status
for UN-run province meets with Serbs
23 November 2005 – Secretary-General Kofi Annan's special
envoy leading the process to decide the future status of Kosovo
today met with Serb political leaders in the Serbian province,
which the UN has run since Western forces drove out Yugoslav
troops amid grave human rights abuses in fighting between majority
Albanians and Serbs in 1999.FULL
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Kosovo: Annan's envoy arrives to start
final status process for UN-run province
22 November 2005 – Secretary-General
Kofi Annan's special envoy today began the process of deciding
the future status of Kosovo as the United Nations administrator
of the Serbian province, where ethnic Albanians outnumber Serbs
and others by 9 to 1, voiced caution over possible provocations
from "crazies" on all sides.FULL
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UN refugee
official sentenced to three years' jail for underage sex
1 November 2005 – A court in United
Nations-administered Kosovo, presided over by an international
judge but also involving two judges from the province, has sentenced
a UN refugee agency official to three years in prison on one
count of sexual abuse of persons under the age of sixteen and
one count of falsifying official documents.
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Kosovo:
Annan to name veteran trouble-shooter Ahtisaari to lead status
talks
1 November 2005 – Secretary-General
Kofi Annan has informed the Security Council of his intention
to appoint former Finnish President Martti Ahtisaari, a veteran
United Nations trouble-shooter, as his Special Envoy to lead
the political process to determine the future status of the
ethnically divided, UN-administered Serbian province of Kosovo.FULL
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