Word: kouchner
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...Reconciliation is absolutely impossible," said Bernard Kouchner, head of UNMIK, to the French Communist newspaper L'Humanite on Saturday...
...crazy enough to think that in eight months we could have done what they haven't been able to do in Ireland for 30 years?" continued Kouchner...
...Albanian civilians were wounded in a series of grenade attacks, underlines the fact that stability remains elusive even eight months after the NATO-led peacekeepers first arrived. The violence in the city close to the Serbian border came a day after the U.N. administrator for the province, Bernard Kouchner, urged the Security Council to provide more money and to begin a debate over the meaning of the "substantial autonomy" for Kosovo to which the international community is committed. "Kosovo is no longer a part of Yugoslavia even if it remains so legally," says TIME U.N. correspondent William Dowell. "But even...
...that NATO will eventually tire of its financial and military obligations in Kosovo, and seek a quick exit," says Dowell. "Already it's clear that a lot of the money that was promised for rebuilding Kosovo at the height of last year's conflict has simply not been delivered." Kouchner and his supporters argue that unless money is plowed into infrastructure and government institutions, such as police, the province will always be in thrall of extremists. But even if it's reluctant to pay up, NATO is unlikely to abandon Kosovo to Milosevic. Still, says Dowell, "it'll be much...