UN SPECIAL ENVOY TO KOSOVO SHORTLY TO PROMULGATE PLAN FOR THE FUTURE OF
THIS REGION OF SERBIA

Yerevan, January 26. ArmInfo. UN Special Envoy to Kosovo Marti
Ahtisaari will shortly promulgate the plan for the future of this
region of Serbia.

Ahtisaari will come out with a report in Vienna for the Contact Group
(Great Britain, Germany, Italy, Russia, France and the USA). The report
focuses on the protection of the Serbian minority’s rights. To remind,
Albanians make up the most part of the region’s population. The report
will be the first step towards defining Kosovo’s status: since 1999
after the NATO military campaign, the province has been under the UN’s
protectorate. Ahtisaari will propose a certain form of statehood for
Kosovo, as well as the measures of protection of Serbs’ rights, the law
and order in the province will be ensured by international forces. The
Contact Group will hold a closed session.

To remind, yesterday, in Stepanakert, answering journalists’ questions
about Kosovo’s precendent, Yuri Merzlyakov, the Russian co-chairman of
the OSCE MG, emphasized that this will create a precedent, as for the
first time the matter concerns the status of a former autonomous
formation. Earlier it was a question about the federative order of the
state. U.S. co-chairman Matthew Bryza sees no precedent in Kosovo’s
situation. He considers that each situation or conflict is different.
Bernard Fassier, the French co-chairman of the OSCE MG, agreed with
M.Bryza. He emphasized that each conflict has its own complexities, and
the solution should be found on the basis of special aspects of each
conflict’s situation.