Brussels - The US ambassador, Mr Christopher Hill, leading western efforts to negotiate a settlement in Kosovo, told NATO allies yesterday in Brussels how the peace process could be speeded up and further suffering averted.
He declined to divulge his confidential recommendations but said he had suggested potential solutions to fresh problems resulting from a two-month military offensive by Yugoslav security forces in the breakaway province. "I have certainly highlighted some of the problems both in terms of the humanitarian situation and also the problems of the negotiations, and what we might do to try to pick up the pace in resolving or addressing those situations," the envoy said.
He plans to return to Kosovo today to resume his shuttle diplomacy and will be in Belgrade early next week for further talks with President Slobodan Milosevic.