Hello and Welcome…These are the headlines this week

1. UN’s Special Envoy to Kosovo is expected to be appointed any moment

2. New Zip codes for Kosovo – K-Serbs will boycott this decision

3. French and Dutch say ‘No’ to EU Constitution

- Topping the news this week;

It is expected that these days United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan will appoint a special envoy to review the implementation of the ‘standards’ in Kosovo. Only after such a review any talks on Kosovo's status can take place, said UNMIK chief Soren Jessen-Petersen after last week’s UN Security Council session on Kosovo.
According to diplomatic sources, the likeliest candidate is Norwegian ambassador to UN Kai Eide.

Reactions from Kosovo’s government and opposition to the Security Council meeting were positive.

Daut Dauti, the Spokesman for the Government said that the appointment of a special envoy to make a comprehensive evaluation of standards gives the impression that the time to settle Kosovo’s final status has come.

- Pristina and Belgrade in diplomatic actions:

After the visit of Serbia and Montenegro’s Minister of foreign Affairs Vuk Draskovic to Slovenia, also Kosovo’s Prime Minister Bajram Kosumi visited the country currently chairing the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe. He continued his trip to Zagreb where he attended the International Conference on Enlargement of the European Union in South-East Europe. This is the second visit of the Prime Minister abroad, following his visit to Albania.

Two days before Serbian President Boris Tadic met in Berlin with Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder and Bundestag Speaker Wolfgang Thierse. On that occasion he said once again that he was prepared to meet with Kosovo President Ibrahim Rugova and that the Serbian government was prepared for talks with the government of Kosovo and it’s Prime Minister.

- Meanwhile the internal political scene

The Head of UNMIK, Soren Jessen-Petersen said on Tuesday that Kosovo’s President and Prime Minister are aware of their responsibilities for the future of Kosovo. Petersen said following a meeting with President Ibrahim Rugova and Prime Minister Bajram Kosumi, that they promised to work on the harmonization of stances on major issues for Kosovo within the government and the opposition.

The first meeting of an informal forum of both government and opposition was postponed once again. A new date is set for June the 7^th.

- New Zip codes for Kosovo – K-Serbs will boycott this decision

Mail delivered to Kosovo from abroad will not come through Belgrade or any other transitional country anymore.

According to PTK officials, every city in Kosovo will have it’s own zip code. From now on mail delivered to and coming from Kosovo will go directly. There is no need to go through Serbia and Montenegro, Albania or Switzerland. However, the director of PTT Serbia's Kosovo branch, Randjel Nojkic, said the Serb populated areas will keep their old postal codes, stating that the changing of postal codes in Kosovo was yet another violation of Resolution 1244 of the U.N. Security Council.

- For the end – French and Dutch No to EU Constitution

Provisional final results from The Netherlands indicated that 61.6% of voters said "No" to the EU Constitution while 38.4% approved it. Dutch Prime Minister Jan Peter Balkenende, who campaigned for a "Yes" vote, said he would respect the result.

Last Sunday French voters gave the same answer. The constitution cannot come into effect unless all 25 EU members ratify it.

Back announce: And that’s all for today’s’ edition. Be with us on Monday when we’re going to talk about the coming dialogue on missing persons.