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Rivals make way for new government


In an encouraging sign that the building of Kosovo as an autonomous state is taking shape, Dr Ibrahim Rugova, the province's moderate leader, said he had dissolved the "Republic of Kosovo" and its government, which he headed.

By abolishing one of two competing self-declared Kosovar governments, the move allows for the creation of a new administration that will include Dr Rugova's supporters and representatives of the former ethnic Albanian militia, the Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA).

It will gradually take over the functions at present exercised by the interim United Nations administration in Kosovo.

The rival government to Dr Rugova's, headed by Mr Hashim Thaci, commander of the KLA, had already been dissolved in keeping with a UN requirement that all parallel governments be dissolved by the end of January.

The plan is for a unified government to be elected, probably in the northern autumn.

Dr Rugova proclaimed his Kosovo republic in 1990, after Serbia revoked the autonomous status of its southern province.

The scrapping of the "republic", as part of plans for a new administration involving former guerillas and opposition leaders, is a key part of the West's peacekeeping strategy for the province.

Dr Rugova also declared himself ready to discuss the handover of his administration's funds to UN peacekeepers. These are believed to amount to the equivalent of about $A200million.

But it was reported that Kosovo's Serbs are refusing to join the new joint administration.

Meanwhile, attackers have fired an anti-tank rocket at a UN bus with 49 Kosovo Serbs on board, killing two elderly people and wounding three other passengers, international authorities said.

The attack drew expressions of outrage from officials of the United Nations and the NATO-led KFOR peacekeeping force.

http://www.inthesetimes.com/edit2406.html I predict right wing death squads will be on the rise.

Islamic womans view of world http://www.globecartoon.com/chapp/Afghanistan.html

konbanwa, k-san...
well, we had our "pedophile" phase a couple weeks
ago, and today we've had the "golden showers"
phase. yeesh and a half -_-
aside from the fact that these are drastically
off-topic, one shudders to think of what else will
follow. bestiality? cannibalism as a team sport?

graffiti on a bathroom wall. wash the wall. new
graffiti appears.repeat.

Law and order needs to be restored to Kosovo.Serbs were doing that .Nato thought they could do better job.However http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/nm/20000202/pl/yugoslavia_usa_3.html