The EU’s special envoy in Kosovo, Wolfgang Petritsch, has been reappointed for a further term…

Date: 14/01/1999

...as diplomatic efforts continue to convince the two sides to find a negotiated solution to the dispute over the status of ethnic Albanians in the Serbian province. Fighting broke out between Yugoslavian armed forces and units of the Kosovo Liberation Army over Christmas, despite a cease-fire negotiated under the threat of NATO military air-strikes on Belgrade.