UN top official in Kosovo, Serb Deputy Prime Minister hold talks on Mitrovica

The top United Nations official in Kosovo and the commander of KFOR, the international security force in the province, met on Friday in Pristina with the Serb Deputy Prime Minister to discuss the issue of the divided city of Mitrovica, the UN mission in Kosovo reported.

In the third of a series of such meetings, Hans Haekkerup, head of the UN Interim Administration Mission in Kosovo (UNMIK), KFOR chief Thorstein Skiaker and the head of the Joint Coordinating Committee, Serb Deputy Prime Minister Nebojsa Covic, met on Mitrovica and northern Kosovo, discussing security structures and confidence-building measures.

According to UNMIK, there is an agreement to continue these meetings, with a view to improving living conditions in Mitrovica and northern Kosovo, as well as in the Serbian enclaves, on the basis of a united Kosovo under Security Council resolution 1244. In addition, the parties discussed education and in particular the issue of higher education, UNMIK said.