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  • Kosovo's draft constitution widens Serbia gulf

    05/17/2005 12:49:03 AM PDT · by Nennsy · 386+ views
    The Financial Times ^ | May 16, 2005 | Eric Jansson
    Leaders in Kosovo are considering a unilateral split from Serbia, in case the United Nations, US and Europe fail to achieve a diplomatic settlement this year over the breakaway province's political status. Ibrahim Rugova, Kosovo's president, has told the Financial Times that he is drafting a constitution envisaging the province of 2m people as a newly independent state in the Balkans."We are drafting our own constitution, as is our right, and in due time it will be presented to the parliament, which will either vote on it or send it for a referendum," Mr Rugova said, describing the document as...
  • Kosovo: Under Mounting Criticism, UN Considers Changes To Policy

    08/14/2004 10:00:50 PM PDT · by AncientAirs · 2 replies · 372+ views
    RFE/RL ^ | August 13, 2004 | Robert McMahon
    The United Nations is facing some of its most intense scrutiny over the administration of Kosovo. Serbs and ethnic Albanian leaders -- barely in dialogue with each other -- see the UN as unfit to run the province. UN Security Council members are pressing for policy changes to maintain their goal of a multiethnic entity. A number of outside experts, meanwhile, regard the council's mandate for Kosovo as an inherent contradiction that must be revised soon. United Nations, 13 August 2004 (RFE/RL) -- When Soren Jessen-Petersen takes over on 16 August as the UN's sixth administrator of Kosovo, he will...