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> BBC, Friday, 12 January, 2001, 17:06 GMT
> UN 'failed' Kosovo Serbs
>
> Bernard Kouchner, the high-profile doctor who has administered Kosovo for
> 18 months, has admitted that the United Nations has failed to protect the
> province's Serbian minority.
>
> In a flamboyant ceremony to mark the end of his 18 months in the post, he
> warned the province's Kosovo Albanians that, in the eyes of the
> international community, they had turned from victims to oppressors.
>
> "My final message to you is very simple," the Frenchman told hundreds of
> people, overwhelmingly Kosovo-Albanians, at a sports hall in the Kosovo
> capital Pristina. "Please, my dear friends, stop the killings. Please, my
> dear friends, stop the violence."
>
> The ceremony, which featured live music, concluded with Dr Kouchner
> singing the USA for Africa song We Are the World with local political
> leaders and a mutli-ethnic children's choir.
>
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