A report on Kosovo by United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon is to be discussed by the Security Council on June 17 2009.
 
While Kosovo has called for an end to the mandate of UN mission UNMIK, the report says that the mission continues to play a significant role in the changed reality of Kosovo, which in February 2008 unilaterally declared independence from Serbia.
 
The report, a regular quarterly document, says that Kosovo is maintaining only minimal contact with UN special envoy, Lamberto Zannier.
 
It says that the general security situation in Kosovo is relatively peaceful, but that the number of returnees to Kosovo is disappointingly low.
 
Serbian foreign minister Vuk Jeremic, Kosovo foreign minister Skender Hyseni and Zannier were scheduled to take part in the meeting, scheduled to start at 9pm CET.
 
Jeremic told Serbian news agency FoNet that he would call for a halt for the pressure on  countries to recognise Kosovo’s independence.
 
"We will insist to discuss the situation on the ground, in order to see the difficulties
that the non-Albanian population is facing," Jeremic said.
 
Serbia’s B92 said on June 26 that the country’s minister for Kosovo, Goran Bogdanovic, had said that the government in Belgrade was going to great lengths to keep recognitions of Kosovo's unilateral independence to a minimum.
 
"It’s well-documented that a certain number of countries in the EU, and in the world, have not yet recognised Kosovo, and we’re receiving assurances that they will never do so, unless Serbia takes such a decision first," Bogdanovic told B92 on the anniversary of the adoption of the Kosovo constitution in Pristina.