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What happens when you hand off to the UN?

United Nations-run Kosovo faces fresh conflict if the international community fails to answer the Albanian majority's independence demands by the end of 2005, an influential think-tank warns in a new report. "Either 2005 will see the start of a final status solution that consolidates peace and development or Kosovo may return to conflict and generate regional instability," the International Crisis Group says in a 40-page report to be published today.

Now that we know, we won't make that mistake again, right?