Security Council, in presidential statement, reaffirms commitment to multi-ethnic, democratic Kosovo; Speakers focus on primacy of standards to ensure needs of people over determination of final status -- Part 1 of 2.

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M2 PRESSWIRE-7 February 2003-UN: Security Council, in presidential statement, reaffirms commitment to multi-ethnic, democratic Kosovo; Speakers focus on primacy of standards to ensure needs of people over determination of final status -- Part 1 of 2(C)1994-2003 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD RDATE:02062003 Addressing the situation in Kosovo in two meetings today, the Security Council focused on the need to create jobs, ensure security and achieve real multi-ethnicity and transfer of power there, stressing that standards in ensuring the needs of the people should have precedence over the determination of the final status of Kosovo.

Through a statement read out by its President, Gunther Pleuger of Germany, the Council called for the authority of the United Nations...