Adelina Marku, who speaks for the Tetovo-based Democratic Party of Albanians, a junior partner in Macedonia's ruling coalition government, says that the Kosovars, who declared nominal independence from Serbia back in 1991 and created a series of notional organs of state, had lulled themselves into a false sense of security.

ECONOMIST: Macedonia and its Kosovars

Mr. Matsuura's address, which was read by the Director of the UNESCO Kabul office, Mr. Martin Hadlow, complimented the authorities on its recent strategy paper on media which "contains a range of innovative and courageous options that would see the State remove itself from many of the currently Government funded media organs".

UNESCO: Communication and Information