UN report receives mixed response in Kosovo

BBCM, May 28, 2005 8:33 PM

Text of report in English by Croatian news agency HINA

Pristina, 28 May: The spokesman for Kosovo's government, Daut Dauti, has sad that the government maintains that assessments presented on Friday''s [27 May] session of the UN Security Council on Kosovo are "the recognition of its work and efforts it has so far made to implement international Standards".

Dauti said on Friday that the decision of the UN Secretary General Kofi Annan to appoint a special envoy who would carry out a thorough review of the implementation of the Standards was "the evidence that the start of discussions on Kosovo''s final status is in the offing".

The chairman of the community of Serb-populated municipalities in Kosovo, Marko Jaksic, criticized a statement which UN Administrator in Kosovo Soeren Jessen-Petersen gave at the Security Council''s session, saying that it was an embellished report with pro-Albanian positions, which failed to give contribution to the solution of problems in the province.

Source: HINA news agency, Zagreb, in English 0904 gmt 28 May 05

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