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U.N. Recommends That Kosovo Talks Go Ahead
Saturday October 8, 2005 12:16 AM
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By NICK WADHAMS
Associated Press Writer
UNITED NATIONS (AP) - U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan recommended Friday that talks on Kosovo's future go ahead despite corruption and pervasive ethnic tension, a critical step toward resolving the fate of a province run by the United Nations since NATO's 1999 air war.
Annan's recommendation to the U.N. Security Council was delivered with a report that said enough progress had been made in creating the institutions to make a government work in Kosovo. Europe and the United States must not allow the tiny region to stagnate or fade from international attention, the report said.
``I think we did provide a political momentum and I think it will be very unwise to stop that political momentum,'' the report's author, Kai Eide of Norway, said in a phone interview from London.
The Security Council was likely to discuss Eide's report when it considers Kosovo on Oct. 24, and talks could start as early as next month, after Annan appoints a special representative to oversee the process.
Kosovo has been run by a U.N. mission - with a strong NATO peacekeeping presence - since mid-1999, when a NATO air war forced former">Guardian Unlimited | World Latest | U.N. Recommends That Kosovo Talks Go Ahead: "U.N. Recommends That Kosovo Talks Go Ahead
Saturday October 8, 2005 12:16 AM
AP Photo XSI103
By NICK WADHAMS
Associated Press Writer
UNITED NATIONS (AP) - U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan recommended Friday that talks on Kosovo's future go ahead despite corruption and pervasive ethnic tension, a critical step toward resolving the fate of a province run by the United Nations since NATO's 1999 air war.
Annan's recommendation to the U.N. Security Council was delivered with a report that said enough progress had been made in creating the institutions to make a government work in Kosovo. Europe and the United States must not allow the tiny region to stagnate or fade from international attention, the report said.
``I think we did provide a political momentum and I think it will be very unwise to stop that political momentum,'' the report's author, Kai Eide of Norway, said in a phone interview from London.
The Security Council was likely to discuss Eide's report when it considers Kosovo on Oct. 24, and talks could start as early as next month, after Annan appoints a special representative to oversee the process.
Kosovo has been run by a U.N. mission - with a strong NATO peacekeeping presence - since mid-1999, when a NATO air war forced former"
Saturday October 8, 2005 12:16 AM
AP Photo XSI103
By NICK WADHAMS
Associated Press Writer
UNITED NATIONS (AP) - U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan recommended Friday that talks on Kosovo's future go ahead despite corruption and pervasive ethnic tension, a critical step toward resolving the fate of a province run by the United Nations since NATO's 1999 air war.
Annan's recommendation to the U.N. Security Council was delivered with a report that said enough progress had been made in creating the institutions to make a government work in Kosovo. Europe and the United States must not allow the tiny region to stagnate or fade from international attention, the report said.
``I think we did provide a political momentum and I think it will be very unwise to stop that political momentum,'' the report's author, Kai Eide of Norway, said in a phone interview from London.
The Security Council was likely to discuss Eide's report when it considers Kosovo on Oct. 24, and talks could start as early as next month, after Annan appoints a special representative to oversee the process.
Kosovo has been run by a U.N. mission - with a strong NATO peacekeeping presence - since mid-1999, when a NATO air war forced former">Guardian Unlimited | World Latest | U.N. Recommends That Kosovo Talks Go Ahead: "U.N. Recommends That Kosovo Talks Go Ahead
Saturday October 8, 2005 12:16 AM
AP Photo XSI103
By NICK WADHAMS
Associated Press Writer
UNITED NATIONS (AP) - U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan recommended Friday that talks on Kosovo's future go ahead despite corruption and pervasive ethnic tension, a critical step toward resolving the fate of a province run by the United Nations since NATO's 1999 air war.
Annan's recommendation to the U.N. Security Council was delivered with a report that said enough progress had been made in creating the institutions to make a government work in Kosovo. Europe and the United States must not allow the tiny region to stagnate or fade from international attention, the report said.
``I think we did provide a political momentum and I think it will be very unwise to stop that political momentum,'' the report's author, Kai Eide of Norway, said in a phone interview from London.
The Security Council was likely to discuss Eide's report when it considers Kosovo on Oct. 24, and talks could start as early as next month, after Annan appoints a special representative to oversee the process.
Kosovo has been run by a U.N. mission - with a strong NATO peacekeeping presence - since mid-1999, when a NATO air war forced former"
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