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http://www.ptd.net/webnews/wed/ch/Qbosnia-kosovo-un.RCY6_CAF.html Kosovo's UN administrator urges stronger links with Bosnia SARAJEVO, April 15 (AFP) - The UN administrator in the Serbian province of Kosovo, Michael Steiner, said on Monday that the province should strengthen links with Bosnia, a former partner in the ex-Yugoslavia. "We know very well that Kosovo is not an island, it has now also to get in touch with the neighbourhood. This is one of the reasons why I'm here," he said after meeting the UN representative in Bosnia, Jacques Klein. "We should also talk about our relationship between Bosnia-Hercegovina and Kosovo, and how can we look beyond our state as it is here, province as it is there, and how we can work together," he said. He was also scheduled on his one-day visit to meet the chairman of Bosnia's tripartite presidency, Beriz Belkic, and the former Bosnian president Alija Izetbegovic, as well as the country's top international envoy, Wolfgang Petritsch. Steiner took over the UN administration in the troubled province in February. Kosovo has been under UN administration since June 1999, after an 11-week NATO bombing campaign of Yugoslavia ended a crackdown by former president Slobodan Milosevic of the mainly ethnic-Albanian populated province of Serbia. Steiner said that Kosovo could learn from Bosnia's own experience of applying the Dayton peace agreement which ended its 1992-95 war. Steiner gathered experience in the Balkans while serving until mid 1997 as the deputy to the international envoy in Bosnia at that time, Swedish diplomat Carl Bildt . He also participated in the 1995 Dayton peace talks on Bosnia. __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Tax Center - online filing with TurboTax http://taxes.yahoo.com/ --------------------------- ANTI-NATO INFORMATION LIST ==^================================================================ This email was sent to: [email protected] EASY UNSUBSCRIBE click here: http://topica.com/u/?a84x2u.a9617B Or send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] T O P I C A -- Register now to manage your mail! http://www.topica.com/partner/tag02/register ==^================================================================
