(27 Apr 2007)
1. Exterior of Kosovo Government building
2. Wide of President of Kosovo Fatmir Sejdiu, Prime Minister Agim Ceku waiting to greet 15 U.N. Security Council Ambassadors
3. Various arrival of 15 U.N. Security Council Ambassadors
4. Mid shaking hands of Belgian ambassador to the UN, Johann Verbeke with President of Kosovo Fatmir Sejdiu, Prime Minister Agim Ceku
5. Close up of Russian ambassador to the UN Vitaly Churkin
6. Various of meeting round-table between 15 U.N. Security Council Ambassadors' meeting with President of Kosovo Fatmir Sejdiu, Prime Minister Agim Ceku
7. Mid of President Fatmir Sejdiu with officials at meeting
8. Various of U.N. Ambassadors at meeting
9. Mid of Russian ambassador to the UN Vitaly Churkin
10. Various of U.N. Ambassadors led by the Belgian ambassador to the UN, Johann Verbeke
11. Close up Belgian ambassador to the UN, Johann Verbeke
12. Wide shot of meeting
13. Various of street scenes
14. SOUNDBITE: (Albanian) Arif Kaciu, Vox Pop:
"Well we really do hope that the Security Council will see with their eyes the situation in Kosovo. We need to have a final solution about Kosovo."
15. Mid of street scenes
16. SOUNDBITE: (Albanian) Behlul Beqa, analyst:
"The fact finding mission of the UN Security Council - it cannot deny in eight years what the United Nation has created in Kosovo. Kosovo is the work of the UN, therefore they need to support (Martti) Ahtisaari's proposal."
17. Various of street scenes
STORYLINE:
U.N. Security Council ambassadors toured Kosovo on Friday to gather information before a crucial vote on the future of the disputed province and its quest for independence from Serbia.
The fifteen diplomats will meet ethnic Albanian and Serbian leaders and will travel to remote villages and towns.
They will hear from people affected by the ethnic hatreds that claimed the lives of thousands and brought destruction to the province in the 1998-99 war.
What they learn is meant to help inform the council in its debate over whether to approve a plan to grant Kosovo independence under the supervision of the European Union and the United States.
The plan, drafted by U.N. envoy Martti Ahtisaari, has been endorsed by ethnic Albanian leaders, but rejected by Serbian officials who have warned of partition of the province's Serb-dominated north if Kosovo is allowed to split.
"Well we really do hope that the Security Council will see with their eyes the situation in Kosovo. We need to have a final solution about Kosovo," one man said of the plan.
"The fact finding mission of the UN Security Council - it cannot deny in eight years what the United Nation has created in Kosovo. Kosovo is the work of the UN, therefore they need to support the Ahtissari's proposal," an analyst said in Pristina.
Kosovo, home to two (m) million people, is 90 percent ethnic Albanian.
The delegation is expected to visit the ethnically divided town of Kosovska Mitrovica, the scene of violent clashes that epitomise the ethnic division in the province.
They were also to visit the Serbian village of Svinjare, destroyed in 2004 riots by ethnic Albanian mobs, as well as the ethnic Albanian village of Mala Krusa, where 116 ethnic Albanian men were killed by Serb forces in 1999.
Kosovo has been under U.N. and NATO administration since the end of the war between Serb forces and ethnic Albanian separatists. NATO maintains a 16,500-strong force in the province to keep the peace.
About 200,000 Serbs and other minorities fled during a period of revenge attacks by ethnic Albanians that followed Serb forces crackdown.
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