UN to postpone decision on Kosovo's status

The United Nations will postpone a decision on the future status of Serbia's breakaway province of Kosovo, UN special envoy Martti…

The United Nations will postpone a decision on the future status of Serbia's breakaway province of Kosovo, UN special envoy Martti Ahtisaari said today.

The decision was taken in Vienna at a meeting of the Contact Group of six major powers guiding Balkan diplomacy.

The West had promised Kosovo's ethnic Albanian majority a decision by year end but delayed it because Serbia called an early election for January 21st.

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