Zannier: Situation in Kosovo potentially fragile
UNMIK Chief Lamberto Zannier said in New York on Wednesday evening, at a UN Security Council session dedicated to Kosovo, that the general security situation in the southern Serbian province was fragile and that the number of returnees to that area was disappointing.
(KosovoCompromise Staff) Thursday, June 18, 2009
Presenting a regular three-month report by UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon on the situation in the southern Serbian province, Zannier pointed out that in spite of the Kosovo authorities' invitation to displaced persons to return to their homes, the number of such people was very small.
According to UNHCR data, which the secretary general included in his report, only 137 expelled persons, including 24 Albanians, 30 Serbs and 54 members of the Roma, Ashkali and Egiptian population have returned to Kosovo.
The special representative of the UN secretary general said that the reconfiguration of the UN mission in Kosovo was timely and needed, and that it had been carried out in a transparent manner.
