The UN peacekeeping chief Jean-Marie Guehenno arrived in Kosovo on Saturday for a two-day visit,the first by a senior UN official after Kosovo declared its independence from Serbia in February.
Jean-Marie Guehenno, the UN undersecretary-general for peacekeeping operations, met Kosovo President Fatmir Sejdiu, Prime Minister Hashim Thaci and UN mission chief Joachim Rucker after his arrival in the Kosovo capital Pristina.
The talks focused on the prospects of the international civil presence in Kosovo and the March 17 riots in the north of Mitrovica, which Guehenno is expected to visit on Sunday, said reports reaching here from Kosovo.
During the violent protests of Kosovo Serbs on March 17, when a Ukrainian member of international police forces was killed and around 100 other police and NATO-led peacekeepers were wounded.
Guehenno, who left from New York late Friday, is scheduled to visit Belgrade after Kosovo. The French diplomat is being mentioned in the media as Rucker's possible successor after the restructuring of the UN mission in Kosovo (UNMIK).
UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has said that the UNMIK, which has been in place since mid-1999, will continue to exercise its authority until the Security Council decides otherwise.
Kosovo's government will take over from the UNMIK on June 15, when the new constitution takes effect. But the UNMIK is likely to remain operational in northern Kosovo, where ethnic Serbs rejected Kosovo independence and Kosovo government's authority.
Source:Xinhua
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