US envoy arrives in Kosovo

UN envoy Martti Ahtisaari arrived in Kosovo today on a fact-finding mission before crucial talks that will determine whether Kosovo becomes an independent nation or a self-governing region within Serbia.

The former Finnish president, appointed by the UN earlier this month, is to mediate the process that is expected to close the final chapter on the ethnic and sectarian wars that shook the region following the disintegration of former Yugoslavia in 1991.