US envoy: Kosovo talks to end this year
United Press International
PRISTINA, Serbia, Sept. 13 (UPI) -- A senior U.S. diplomat said the future status of Serbia's predominantly ethnic-Albanian Kosovo province needs to be resolved this year.
"The United States will attempt to achieve a solution to Kosovo's status in the course of this year," said Rosemary DiCarlo, deputy assistant U.S. secretary of state for South Central Europe.
DiCarlo met with Kosovo leaders and representatives of Kosovo Serbs to discuss ongoing U.N.-led talks on the future of Kosovo, Serbia's Beta news agency reported. Stefan Lene, the EU envoy on the Kosovo talks, accompanied DiCarlo on her meetings in Pristina.
DiCarlo asked Albanians and Serbs to show more flexibility in the talks, and said the international community will maintain its civilian and military presence in the province, once Kosovo's status is solved.
Serbia's leaders say Kosovo will never be independent of Belgrade, while ethnic-Albanians, who make up 90 percent of Kosovo's 1.8 million population,
insist on independence from Belgrade.
Since 1999, the U.N. civil administration and NATO troops have been deployed in Kosovo to contain ethnic hostilities.
PRISTINA, Serbia, Sept. 13 (UPI) -- A senior U.S. diplomat said the future status of Serbia's predominantly ethnic-Albanian Kosovo province needs to be resolved this year.
"The United States will attempt to achieve a solution to Kosovo's status in the course of this year," said Rosemary DiCarlo, deputy assistant U.S. secretary of state for South Central Europe.
DiCarlo met with Kosovo leaders and representatives of Kosovo Serbs to discuss ongoing U.N.-led talks on the future of Kosovo, Serbia's Beta news agency reported. Stefan Lene, the EU envoy on the Kosovo talks, accompanied DiCarlo on her meetings in Pristina.
DiCarlo asked Albanians and Serbs to show more flexibility in the talks, and said the international community will maintain its civilian and military presence in the province, once Kosovo's status is solved.
Serbia's leaders say Kosovo will never be independent of Belgrade, while ethnic-Albanians, who make up 90 percent of Kosovo's 1.8 million population,
insist on independence from Belgrade.
Since 1999, the U.N. civil administration and NATO troops have been deployed in Kosovo to contain ethnic hostilities.
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