Reuters AlertNet Full site
Homepage | Newsdesk | NGO Latest | Crisis briefings | Country profiles | MediaWatch | Jobs | Alerting | Login

NEWSDESK

Merkel sees no point to delay on Kosovo decision
08 Jun 2007 13:48:53 GMT
Source: Reuters
HEILIGENDAMM, June 8 (Reuters) - German Chancellor Angela Merkel said on Friday she did not support delaying a decision on the future of the Serbian province of Kosovo, whose Albanian population are pushing for a U.N. vote on independence.

"There's not point in waiting for the sake of it. We have to have a clear idea how we go forward," she said at the end of a Group of Eight summit of world leaders.

French President Nicolas Sarkozy had sought to persuade Russia, which backs Serbia's sovereignty over Kosovo, to agree to the region's eventual independence in exchange for a delay to a United Nations vote on the issue.

"We cannot have a delay to let Belgrade and Pristina hold talks unless all the actors, notably the Russians, consider that the independence of Kosovo is an inevitable outcome," Sarkozy said.


AlertNet news is provided by

Email this article       Send comments

Emergencies

•  Kosovo future

MORE >>

Countries

Small country map
© 2004 Europa Technologies Ltd.
Reset map

•  Russia profile
· View map

•  Serbia profile
· View map

MORE >>

NGO latest

•  G8 declaration on innovation and intellectual property will directly harm access to medicines across the developing world
MSF International

•  What needs to happen at G8 summit
Christian Aid - UK

•  InterAction Statement on President's Renewed AIDS Plan
InterAction - USA

•  American Red Cross Promotes Prevention and Control of Tuberculosis Along U.S. - Mexican Border
American Red Cross - USA

•  Leader of AJWS Grantee Wins Prestigious Human Rights Award
AJWS - USA

MORE >>

Latest news

•  Merkel sees no point to delay on Kosovo decision

•  U.S. to temporarily relax some passport rules

•  Sarkozy-need to signal tougher sanctions to Iran

•  Sarkozy says G8 fails to make progress on Kosovo

•  Hindu group making software to partly block Orkut

MORE >>

Disclaimers |  Copyright |  Privacy |  Contact Us |  Feedback |  About Us |  RSS XML

Last updated:Fri Jun 8 13:51:12 2007