There is "considerable support" within the UN Security Council for supervised independence for Kosovo , the council president said, but he said a vote on the breakaway Serbian province is unlikely soon.
The UN mediator for Kosovo , Martti Ahtisaari, a former Finnish president, last week recommended supervised independence for the breakaway Serbian province -- a move fiercely opposed by Belgrade but strongly backed by the United States and European Union.
After a council briefing by Ahtisaari, Britain's UN Ambassador Emyr Jones Parry, the council president for April, told reporters the governments of Britain, France, Germany, Italy, the United States and Russia would likely start drafting a possible council resolution this month.
"There was considerable support among member states for President Ahtisaari's proposals," Jones Parry told reporters, adding that the council would also decide in coming days on whether to visit Kosovo.
"I will expect further (council) discussions this month. I don't think it's likely there will be an early presentation of a Security Council resolution though," he said.
Kosovo is the last major dispute following the breakup of Yugoslavia marked by bloody wars in the 1990s.
Kosovo has been under UN administration since 1999, when NATO launched bombing raids to stop Serb forces from driving out the province's ethnic Albanians, who comprise 90 per cent of the population