The meeting took place behind closed doors. But sources close to Thaci who spoke on condition of anonymity said the two also discussed terms to end an eight-day stalemate between local ethnic Albanians and Russian soldiers in the southern city of Orahovac. Hundreds of ethnic Albanians have been blocking roads to the town for more than a week, refusing to allow Russian peacekeepers to enter. Also Tuesday, the top U.N. official in Kosovo, Bernard Kouchner, swore in seven new judges and two prosecutors in the divided northern town of Kosovska Mitrovica. The judges will be part of a new legal system being set up by the United Nations to replace the Serbian law that previously ruled the province.
International officials are eager to have a judiciary system up and running in the province.
The peacekeepers, who started arriving on June 12, have not been able to prevent revenge attacks and criminal acts from taking place.