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January 22, 2001 

PRISTINA-- (AP) - The U.N. special envoy to the Balkans said Sunday a potential for instability remains in the region until a peace agreement is reached between the conflicting parties in Kosovo.

Carl Bildt, the diplomat, recalled that the war in Bosnia ended with the Dayton peace agreement, while such an accord was still to be concluded for the southern Serbian province.

U.N. officials and NATO-led peacekeepers have controlled Kosovo since June 1999, following the 78-day air war that forced former Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic to end his crackdown on ethnic Albanians in the secessionist province.

"We do not have a peace agreement in the southern part of the Balkans, and that is the essence of the problem," Bildt said. "It has to be an agreement that meets minimum demands of everyone, while not meeting maximum demands of anyone."

He did not provide details of such a possible deal for Kosovo, which is inhabited mostly by ethnic Albanians. Minority Serbs have been the target of retaliatory violence by the Albanians who suffered for more than 10 years under Serb repression.

Bildt said he was ready to facilitate talks on the future status of the province.