Ahtisaari is expected to propose the solution for this UN-administered province before the Security Council after parliamentary elections in Serbia, scheduled for 21 January.
Against a backdrop of the insistence of the Albanian majority in Kosovo on the province's independence, it is necessary to explain all aspects of the solution to the local population, which will not be an easy task, and European officials are afraid of possible reactions of Albanians to proposals on the decentralisation in local Serbs' favour, the Koha Ditore daily in the Albanian language reported.
The European Union wants to see that Kosovo residents are in detail acquainted with the proposal, the daily added.
The negotiations between Belgrade and Pristina began in early 2006 with ministerial meetings on some important elements of the future organisation of Kosovo, such as the decentralisation of Kosovo, the ethnic minorities' rights and the protection of religious and cultural heritage of the 100,000-strong Serb community there.
About 90 percent of the two-million population in Kosovo are Albanians who insist on independence and who refuse any notion about having any formal ties with Serbia after the regime of Serbian autocrat Slobodan Milosevic committed atrocities against the local population in 1990s until the 1999 NATO-led air strikes which drove out the Serbian forces from the province.