Sep 01: On Friday UN’s chief official in Kosovo, Joachim Ruecker announced that parliamentary elections for multiethnic assembly as well as local elections will be held on November 17. The decision has been taken in consultation with Albanian majority leaders want that elections be held before the current Parliament’s mandate ends next month as this is what law dictates.
Soon after the elections are over the report of the international ambassadors over the efforts to solve the Albanian-Serbian conflict over the status of the territory will come out.
The decision has been taken despite the apprehensions that election campaigning might escalate the tension in the territory.
UN administrator hinted that elections can be postponed in case the process of talks over the final status of Kosovo gets hampered. Administrator also reserved the right to change the date of elections if elections are used as an excuse for delaying the status process or elections are cited as a hurdle in the process.
This is to be known that recently held talks in Vienna, Austria could not bring the two parties to any minimum consensus over the status of Kosovo. Albanians who account 2 million in numbers demand complete independence of Kosovo while Serbia is not ready to abandon its sovereignty over its southern province which houses 1 lakh Serbs.
Since 1999 when war broke out between ethnic Albanian separatists and Serb forces Kosovo is under administration of UN.
Recently UN Security Council could not make any consensus on the province’s future as Russia threatened to use its veto power over the implementation of Ahtisaari plan. Kosovo Prime Minister Agim Ceku warned that if UN fails to agree on the issue the province will declare unilateral independence.
UN efforts to determine Kosovo’s future status got set back when they failed to muster the support of Russia for the draft proposal for Kosovo submitted by UN envoy Martti Ahtisaari.
Albanians are committed to independence and would be satisfied with nothing less than complete independence while Serbs are ready to respond to any move of violation of their territory.
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