Reaching a resolution  Future of Kosovo: Peace in the Balkans is
within reach, to achieve it Kosovo must be granted independence
and Bosnia must remain united   • Jump to comments ()  The next
few weeks will see the resolution, one way or another, of the
last territorial issues remaining in the Balkans, where the wars
of the 1990s ended with Nato interventions in Bosnia (1995) and
Kosovo (1999).  Even with peace, major problems were left
unresolved. Bosnia was divided between a Muslim-Croat federation
and a Serb republic, with little authority vested in the central
government and a large international military - and eventually
civilian - presence needed to hold it together. Kosovo was left
as a United Nations protectorate whose "final status" was
uncertain.  These unresolved issues are now returning: prompted
by Serbia's government, Bosnia's Serb leadership is
contemplating secession, even as its Muslim leadership tries to
increase central control. And Kosovo's Albanian population is
clamoring for independenc