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Report: EU may appoint Ischinger as Kosovo envoy 28 July 2007 | 11:54 | Source: B92 *MUNICH -- The EU will highly likely appoint Wolfgang Ischinger as its envoy in the Contact Group team of mediators. * German daily Sueddeutsche Zeitung wrote about the appointment in its Friday issue. However, Germany’s Foreign Ministry refused to comment on the speculation. Ischinger, currently serving as Germany’s ambassador to London, is regarded as an expert for the Balkans. From 2001 to 2006, he was the ambassador to the United States. While working as political director in the German Foreign Office from 1995 to 1998, he participated in the peace talks at Dayton that ended the war in Bosnia. During the 1999 Kosovo conflict he occupied the state secretary post at the Foreign Ministry. Ischinger also worked on mapping out the Stability Pact for South Eastern Europe.
