UNMIK doesn't like any criticism.
M. ----------------------------------------------------- http://www.nytimes.com The New York Times March 10, 2005 Thursday Letters to the Editor Progress in Kosovo To the Editor: ''Still Troubled After All These Years'' (editorial, March 3) is critical of the United Nations' failure to define Kosovo's status, but is also critical when the chief of the United Nations mission in Kosovo, Soren Jessen-Petersen, calls for a clear timetable on status. Moreover, he is not calling for an ''independence timetable,'' as you put it, but for negotiations on status that would be contingent on tangible progress on standards, particularly in regard to minority rights. Far from rewarding ''bad faith,'' a decision not to partition Kosovo would prompt all communities to work toward a common destiny; partition would reopen healing wounds and sacrifice the 60 percent of Kosovo Serbs who do not live in the north. Your editorial does not recognize the Albanian leadership's improvements in security and other positive initiatives, but recalls that ''Albanians went on an anti-Serb rampage.'' Albanian riots a year ago, or Serb atrocities of 1999, cannot be the foundation for a multiethnic Kosovo. Kosovo deserves a fair chance to prove that it can move forward. Hua Jiang Director, Public Information U.N. Interim Administration Mission in Kosovo New York, March 4, 2005 Copyright 2005 The New York Times Company Serbian News Network - SNN [email protected] http://www.antic.org/
