At the discussion “Kosovo: What Next?” held at the United States Institute of Peace, Ambassador Frank G. Wisner, Special Representative of the Secretary of State to the Kosovo Status talks, says first and foremost if peace is to be maintained [in Kosovo], the United States and the Europeans must be heavily involved in the detailed protection of the minorities in order to produce success. (:56)

 

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At the discussion “Kosovo: What Next?” held at the United States Institute of Peace, Ambassador Frank G. Wisner, Special Representative of the Secretary of State to the Kosovo Status talks, said that it is an “unusual declaration” for Kosovo to declare independence, because their independence will be supervised. It was clear to anyone, he said, that Kosovo had a few bridges that would need to be built across the divide toward independence. Serbia finds itself on a real threshold of history, and he said the opinion today is that Serbia is looking backwards with humiliation and cannot move forward if it continues to carry the “albatross of Kosovo” with it.
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