UN overrides Serbia to launch talks on the future of Kosovo
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After a meeting attended by Serbia's President Vojislav Kostunica, the 15-member council decided to act on a recommendation by the UN secretary general Kofi Annan to begin the final-status talks.
Mr Kostunica told the council that "dismemberment of a democratic state and the change of its internationally recognised borders against its will are options not to be contemplated". Kosovo has been under UN administration since 1999, when Nato forced Serbian forces out. Some 100,000 Serbs remain out of a population of two million.
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