premise: The UN envoy to Kosovo, Martti Ahtisaari, began negotiations in February with Serbian and Kosovo authorities to define the future status of the province.
  He was due to make recommendations to the UN by the end of the year, but has now said that he will reveal his plans for the future of the majority ethnic-Albanian region after the Serbian elections.
  "It is a fact of life that the risk of implosion does become greater the deeper Kosovo goes into 2007 without its status settled," the group said.
  It said Ahtisaari's proposals are not likely to explicitly use the term "independence" for Kosovo, but that it expects him to build a strong case for such a future.
  "The incoming German presidency should make uniting member states behind the Ahtisaari proposals a top priority," it said.
   What do the Kosovo authorities reference with building a strong case for the future?
hypothesis: make uniting member states behind the Ahtisaari proposals a top priority