How to pronounce “koso” in English

And Kosovo, at that time, was subject to a diplomatic process about the future of Kosovo that concerned six countries that

about the future of Kosovo.

And living in Kosovo, I saw how it contributed to immense political tension, frustration of people who felt they had no control over their future.

I flew back to Kosovo and had dinner with the Kosovo prime minister, a former leader of the Kosovo Liberation Army, a remarkable man

I took the Kosovo prime minister to the UN Security Council, where hitherto he had been prohibited.

I told the Kosovars what was really going on in the diplomatic process.

between Serbia and Kosovo.

their expectations that Kosovo would become independent at the end of this process.

to the Kosovars. And when they came to the UN, I would help them prepare their speeches, their talking points, press conferences, yada, yada, ya, the sorts of things

Is it Kosovo? One student pointed at the lamppost, which is really distinctive-- they're only in Tiananmen Square--

face of kosova from Afghanistan to Bosnia and Herzegovina nearly 40 000

or Bosnia or Kosovo, I've seen pretty horrific things.

After the Kosovo war Lena’s mother disappeared.

were secretly negotiating about whether Kosovo should become a state or not.

And I flew back to Kosovo.

And so it started with Kosovo.

$25,000 on a tent in Kosovo, but a permanent structure was just a technicality.

We made a difference in Kosovo.

And you can see Eliza Kosoy there helping to shepherd him through the sacred curtain.

the former Soviet Union in Kosovo and Bosnia and those experiments had happier outcome and and and one of the things we

Her mother was an Albanian orphan from Kosovo and was said to walk around begging until she met Lena’s father and married him.

The UN Security Council would have meetings about Kosovo, where 15 members of the Security Council could speak.

But guess what? Kosovo could not speak, had a democratically-elected government, but was not entitled to speak, was not entitled to engage with this diplomatic process

Because they realized it really helped the process for the Kosovo government to understand it.

It also helped them push back against the extremists in Kosovo who were saying, oh, this diplomacy is such bullshit.

Like with Bosnia, with Kosovo, with Rwanda.

and we do small ones on a scale of Kosovo, or East Timor, or Sierra Leone about once every 5 to 10 years in between.

two and the other thing I really saw in Kosovo in particular too personally when I went and visited women's houses with

reported from Iraq Iran Sierra Leone East timore Vietnam India Kosovo and Haiti he has also written often about

And at the time, I was living in Kosovo, on succumbent to the United Nations.

Anyway, so I flew back to Kosovo.

He would say to me things that he couldn't say formally to the Kosovars, which I would then convey in Pristina-- the capital of Kosovo--

The only jobs we really had going on as far special operators were like Kosovo, Bosnia, Liberia.

Isn't that just as bad as what the Serbs are doing in Kosovo?

In addition to all of the things I just mentioned, she managed a pediatric clinic in Kosovo early in her career and started a diamond-cutting factory in Moscow.

But then, along the way, there was Kosovo, and Iraq, and a few things like that.

And I said to him, why not come and advise you about the diplomacy about Kosovo?

I talked to Martti Ahtisaari, the Finnish UN envoy who was dealing with the Kosovo Serbia negotiations to decide the future status of Kosovo.

But other people have called for intervention-- for example, at the time of the Kosovo intervention against Serbia, other people said, well, what about what

in Iraq. There are some in Afghanistan, in Kosovo, in theaters of active service. And--well, I think something we are alive to is the fact that quite often and it's not unique for uniform

here to work with women in our community and that's in every country every work I saw that in Kosovo when I was visiting

forces into cleanse, that is, get rid of a million civilians in Kosovo. Uh this

I realized there was an opportunity to volunteer and give my business skills to build capacity and help small businesses in the Balkans just after the Kosovo crisis.

Because the UN, as the symbol of this inequity, this unjust process, was very widely hated in Kosovo.

called Ramush Haradinaj, who I've just been discussing in the barbers in Edgware Road, which, of course, is full of Kosovars and Albanians.

But about the-- no-- first of all, when I heard that Ridley Scott, Andrew Kosove,

And I got to work on things like Iraq, Bosnia, Rwanda, Kosovo.

And one of my colleagues is with me today, one of the people who helps all of that work on stage, Eliza Kosoy.

You know, we have been working in Afghanistan, in Iraq, in Kosovo, in many war situations.