With the return of regular license plates, it will be safer on the roads of Kosovo. He added, upon being asked about stolen vehicles in Kosovo, that the UN police have already stopped vehicles and tried to verify ownership. In that process, he said, they recovered numerous stolen cars. The welcoming ceremony took place early this morning. The planned deployment of 6,000 peacekeepers in Sierra Leone will take place throughout December.
Problems persist in other parts of the country.
They were reported to be fleeing attacks by rebels in north-western Sierra Leone. The new arrivals are in addition to 192,000 Sierra Leonean refugees already in Guinea. The report is being launched here tomorrow, on World AIDS Day. The Spokesman said that the Special Representative of the Secretary-General on Cyprus, Alvaro de Soto, plans to brief the Security Council this week on the logistics and possibly the substance of the Cyprus talks that begin here on Friday. The parties to the talks and the Secretary-General agreed on a news blackout for their duration, Eckhard added, but de Soto expected to brief the press this week, although not on the substance of the talks.