PRISTINA, June 19 (Hina) - Chairman of the Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE), Rumanian Foreign Minister Mircea Geoana, today spoke in Pristina with the UN civilian administrator to Kosovo, Hans Haekkerup, KFOR
commander Thorstein Skiaker and the Yugoslav province's political leaders Hashim Taqi and Ramuch Haradinaj. about the general elections in Kosovo. The elections, organised by the OSCE, are scheduled to take place in November. After the meetings Geoana said the general elections should be better organised and carried out than the municipal ones last year, stressing that all ethnic communities in the province should be included. Geoana said he received guarantees from Kosovo Serbs that they would cooperate in the process of listing voters. He added they expressed concern for their own safety during the election. Geoana said the possibility of a pre-election return of Serb refugees is being discussed, because the
PRISTINA, June 19 (Hina) - Chairman of the Organisation for
Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE), Rumanian Foreign
Minister Mircea Geoana, today spoke in Pristina with the UN
civilian administrator to Kosovo, Hans Haekkerup, KFOR commander
Thorstein Skiaker and the Yugoslav province's political leaders
Hashim Taqi and Ramuch Haradinaj. about the general elections in
Kosovo. The elections, organised by the OSCE, are scheduled to take
place in November.
After the meetings Geoana said the general elections should be
better organised and carried out than the municipal ones last year,
stressing that all ethnic communities in the province should be
included.
Geoana said he received guarantees from Kosovo Serbs that they
would cooperate in the process of listing voters. He added they
expressed concern for their own safety during the election.
Geoana said the possibility of a pre-election return of Serb
refugees is being discussed, because the future of Kosovo is in the
multiethniticity from which the international community will not
give up.
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