UN envoy to Kosovo says
2006 will likely see wrap up of status process
30 December – The senior United Nations envoy to Kosovo
today said the coming year will likely see the end of the process
to determine the status of the ethnically divided Serbian province
which the world body has administered since 1999.FULL
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UN envoy hopes Kosovo parties will discuss
decentralization next month
20 December – Whatever the final status of the United
Nations-administered Serbian province of Kosovo, majority Albanians
must discuss decentralization and minority Serbs must participate
in the talks, the UN special envoy on the issue said today.
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UN war
crimes court denies Milosevic request for more time to argue
his case
13 December – Seeking to expedite the judicial process,
the United Nations International Criminal for the Former Yugoslavia
(ICTY) at The Hague today decided to deny former President Slobodan
Milosevic’s request for more time to argue his case. FULL
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Kosovo: UN personnel
come under fire as jail break is foiled
13 December – A Romanian Special Police Unit working under
the United Nations Interim Administration Mission in Kosovo
(UNMIK) came under fire yesterday during an unsuccessful prison
breakout by 14 inmates in the western part of the province,
which the world body has administered since 1999. FULL
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Timor-Leste, helped to independence by
UN, sends police to help UN in Kosovo
9 December – Underscoring the remarkable progress it has
made since the United Nations helped it to independence in 2002,
Timor-Leste, the world’s youngest country, is sending
10 police officers to serve in the UN Police unit in Kosovo,
which the world body has administered since 1999. FULL
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Condemning
attack against bus in Kosovo, UN envoy orders stepped up security
measures
4 December – The senior United Nations official in Kosovo
has ordered stepped-up security measures, including new checkpoints,
throughout the province in response to yesterday's failed but
potentially lethal attack against a bus. FULL
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UN Tribunal releases
two Kosovo fighters found not guilty of war crimes
1 December – Two former members of the ethnic Albanian
Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA) were released today from the detention
unit of the United Nations war crimes tribunal in The Hague,
after having been cleared of war crimes during the deadly ethnic
fighting in 1998-99 that led the United Nations to take over
the administration of the Serbian province. FULL
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