UNITED NATIONS, Jan. 23 (UPI) -- A U.N. proposal for the future status of the Albanian-majority Serbian province of Kosovo is expected to be previewed to concerned countries Friday.
Officials have not disclosed details of the proposal for Kosovo's future status process to be presented in Vienna to the contact group of Britain, France, Germany, Italy, Russia and the United States.
The plan was prepared by U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon's special emissary Martti Ahtisaari, a former president of Finland, who has been helping to seek a solution for the province. Albanians outnumber Serbs and others in Kosovo by 9 to 1.
Ban's spokeswoman, Michele Montas, said Tuesday after the plan is presented to the group of nations Friday, Ahtisaari will go to the Serbian capital of Belgrade and Kosovo's provincial capital Pristina Feb. 2 to officially present the proposal to both sides.
The envoy will then wait for feedback from the parties before sending the proposal on to Ban who will send them to the U.N. Security Council.
"It will be up to the Security Council to decide when it wants to consider Kosovo," Montas said.
Independence and autonomy are among options that have been mentioned but Serbia rejects independence and the most recent U.N. report on the province said Kosovo's provisional ethnic Albanian government and Serbia remain "diametrically opposed" in their views of the future status.
Ahtisaari had originally planned to present his proposal to the parties last year but postponed doing so until after Serbia's parliamentary elections Sunday.
