YUGOSLAVIA: UNITED NATIONS EFFORTS FOR PEACE IN KOSOVO SUFFER BLOW WHEN LEADER OF KLA FAILS TO TURN UP FOR COUNCIL MEETING

Record ID: 336990

  • Title: YUGOSLAVIA: UNITED NATIONS EFFORTS FOR PEACE IN KOSOVO SUFFER BLOW WHEN LEADER OF KLA FAILS TO TURN UP FOR COUNCIL MEETING
  • Date: 21st August 1999
  • Summary: PRISTINA, KOSOVO, YUGOSLAVIA (AUGUST 21, 1999) (REUTERS) 1. SLV SOLDIER ON DUTY AT THE EXTERIOR OF BUILDING WHERE COUNCIL MEETING WAS HELD 0.03 2. MV INTERIOR / U.N. ADMINISTRATOR FOR KOSOVO BERNARD KOUCHER WALKING UP STAIRS 0.13 3. MV HEAD OF SERB ORTHODOX CHURCH IN KOSOVO PATRIARCH PAVLE ARRIVING WALKING UP STAIRS 0.24 4. MV K-FOR C
  • Embargoed: 5th September 1999 13:00
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  • Location: PRISTINA, KOSOVO, YUGOSLAVIA
  • City:
  • Country: Yugoslavia
  • Reuters ID: LVA7UJIYVXYHZ8Q39I9J3ITJGLCO
  • Story Text: United Nations efforts to get Kosovo's political
    forces to work together have suffered a blow after the leader
    of the Kosovo Liberation Army failed to turn up for a council
    meeting on Saturday.

    Hashim Thaqi had not shown up for a meeting of the
    Kosovo Transitional Council more than an hour after it was due
    to start on Saturday (August 21) and officials at his office
    told Reuters he was out of the country and would not be back
    until Monday.

    The U.N.had billed Saturday's meeting of the council,
    its highest advisory body in Kosovo, as the first time all the
    territory's major postwar political figures would come
    together.

    Thaci, the prime minister of a self-proclaimed Kosovo
    provisional government, had been away from Kosovo for several
    days leading up to the meeting but the U.N.had given no
    indication it did not expect him to attend.

    Ibrahim Rugova, Thaqi's fellow ethnic Albanian political
    rival, boycotted the first meeting of the council last month
    because he wanted his party to have more representation.


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