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Unison (Ireland)
Negotiators to tackle issue of ethnically divided Kosovo
town
12:09 Sunday April 30th 2006
Negotiators
seeking to put an end to the dispute over Kosovo's post-war legal status will
tackle one of the toughest questions next week - who will control the
territory's only ethnically divided town.
Kosovska Mitrovica is cut in two by
the river Ibar, which separates the town's Serb-dominated north and its ethnic
Albanian south.
Western envoys conducting UN-sponsored talks between
Kosovo's ethnic Albanians and Serbia are to discuss proposals for the town's
future on Thursday in Vienna, Austria, as part of discussions on local
government reform.
The town, 45 kilometres (30 miles) north of Kosovo's
capital, Pristina, has been the scene of violent clashes in the past and has
come to symbolise the deep rift between the Kosovo's two main
communities.
It is also the last urban foothold for the 100,000 Serbs
remaining in Kosovo after the war
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Negotiations on the future status of Kosovo appear to be stalling as the United Nations, U.S., and EU mediators struggle to bridge the apparently contradictory views between Belgrade and Pristina. With the plan to finish these talks by the end of this year, questions arise about the way ahead:
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