NEW YORK, March 14 (UPI) -- U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon is urging a rapid decision on Kosovo's future, a U.N. report said.
In his report to the U.N. Security Council, Ban said eight years after an interim U.N. administration in Kosovo was established, the province and its people need a clear future, Serbia's RTS radio-television reported Wednesday.
Martti Ahtisaari, Ban's special envoy to Serb-ethnic Albanian talks on Kosovo's future, has prepared a plan giving Kosovo the right to govern itself, something the Serbian government in Belgrade refuses opposes.
Leaders of ethnic-Albanians, who make up 90 percent of Kosovo's 1.8 million population, insist on independence from Serbia.
U.N. administrators and NATO troops have been deployed in Kosovo since 1999 when they stopped Serbia's military campaign against ethnic-Albanian armed separatists and civilians.
