NATO Secretary-General Jaap de Hoop Scheffer is due in Kosovo today to discuss security with commanders of the NATO-led peacekeeping force.

Special UN envoy Martti Ahtisaari has presented his proposal for limited statehood for Kosovo. Among the many parties with an interest in Kosovo's future status is neighboring Albania, which shares ethnic and linguistic ties with Kosovo's 90 percent majority Albanian population.

Serbian President Boris Tadic is meeting with his party allies today to map out a response to the UN's new proposal for Kosovo.

The United States Friday called the newly released Kosovo settlement plan of U.N. envoy Martti Ahtisaari fair and balanced, and urged authorities in both Serbia and Kosovo to work toward a final settlement. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice is consulting European colleagues on the next steps in the process.

The United Nation's special envoy for Kosovo presented what he called his "compromise" proposal for the province's future status today.

The United Nations special envoy for Kosovo will visit Serbia this week to lay out his proposal for the breakaway province's future, despite pleas from Serbia's outgoing government to wait until a new cabinet is in place.

NATO foreign ministers are meeting in Brussels today to discuss the security situation in Afghanistan.

The hard-line, ultranationalist Serbian Radical Party appears to have taken the most votes in the January 21 general elections in Serbia.