LYCOS RETRIEVER 
Kosovo: Central Serbia
built 128 days ago
Kosovo has an area of 10,887 square kilometers (one third the size of Belgium). It is a geographical basin, situated at an altitude of about 500 meters, surrounded by mountains, and divided by a central north/south ridge into two subregions of roughly equal size and population.
Source:
The Troika group reported to Secretary General Ban Ki-moon that the Kosovo talks had no results. Neither Serbia nor Kosovo want to compromise, making the issue of independence more difficult to resolve through negotiations. Both parties agreed to delay the Security Council statement until after the report debate scheduled for December 19, 2007. US envoy Frank Wisner believes that the Ahtisaari’s Kosovo plan for internationally-supervised independence remains a possibility.
Source:
If Kosovo becomes sovereign, Serbian security forces can never again enter its territory legitimately without the permission of the Pristina government. Likewise, NATO forces would have to be in Kosovo as part of an agreement with Pristina, unless there is a U.N. Security Council resolution authorizing their presence.
Source:
Kosovo's unilateral declaration of independence is disputed by Serbia, Russia, Spain and 18 other nations. The official position of these countries is that Kosovo is a Serbian province under ad interim UN control, formally known as Autonomous Province of Kosovo and Metohija (Serbian:
Source:
The current situation in Kosovo is stable if fragile. But the slow process of negotiations in Vienna, now combined with Serbia's referendum vote, reinforces a situation of much worry, tension, and periodic unrest.
Source:
The root... of Kosovo's discontent is economic, and its plight is but the severest of these less-developed regions, which are very roughly to the south of the Sara and Danube rivers, the limit of the old Turkish occupation. Thus, Kosovo has a per capita gross national product of 31 per cent of the Yugoslav average, Bosnia-Hercegovina 66 per cent, Macedonia 65 per cent, Montenegro 80 per cent, Serbia 96 per cent. Roughly to the north of those rivers formerly under Austrian rule, is Voyvodina with 121 per cent of the national average, Croatia with 126 per cent and Slovenia with 198 per cent.
Source:
MORE ABOUT
Central Serbia