PRISTINA, Serbia, Jan. 30 (UPI) -- Albania's president is urging the U.N. secretary-general to declare Serbia's mainly ethnic-Albanian Kosovo province independent, media said Tuesday.
In a letter to U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, Albanian President Alfred Moisiu said a U.N proposal on the future status of Kosovo should reflect the wish of the province's ethnic-Albanian majority, the Serbian news agency Tanjug reported.
Leaders of ethnic-Albanians, who make up 90 percent of Kosovo's population of 1.8 million people, insist on independence from Serbia, while the Serbian government in Belgrade, which represents 100,000 Serbs in Kosovo, wants to keep Kosovo as an autonomous province.
A U.N. plan on Kosovo's future is to be revealed this year.
U.N. administrators and NATO troops have been deployed in Kosovo since 1999 to curb ethnic conflicts.
