16 Feb 2007
The UN Secretary General’s Special Envoy for the Future Status Process for Kosovo, Martti Ahtisaari, visited NATO Headquarters on Friday, 16 February 2007. He met NATO Secretary General Jaap de Hoop Scheffer and addressed the North Atlantic Council (NAC) with non-NATO Kosovo Force (KFOR) contributors.
The NATO Secretary General said after the meeting that the NAC had expressed strong support for the Ahtisaari proposal for the future status of Kosovo. He added that KFOR was in Kosovo for the safety of all Kosovars and that violence was never a solution. He emphasized the need to retain the unity and territorial integrity of Kosovo, completely rejecting the notion of partition and calling for a solution to be reached “in a timely manner.”
Mr. Ahtisaari thanked KFOR for its “very good work” providing logistic and other support for his mission.
