Kosovo says it has applied for membership in the United Nations
Kosovo’s Foreign Minister Hashim Thaci countered at a Security Council meeting Friday that Kosovo is eligible to become a member of the U.N. Economic, Scientific and Cultural Organization, or
UNESCO, before it becomes a U.N. member state. He says that’s allowed if
UNESCO’s executive board recommends it and two-thirds of its members approve.
Kosovo came under U.N. and NATO administration after a 1999 NATO-led air war halted a crackdown on ethnic Albanian separatists but its final status was left in question. Its predominantly ethnic Albanian leadership declared independence from Serbia in 2008. But Serbia rejects its secession.
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