UNITED NATIONS, July 25 (Xinhua) -- The UN special envoy to Kosovo Lamberto Zannier said on Friday that it has been "increasingly difficult" for him to exercise his UN-authorized powers in the territory since the entry into force of the Kosovo Constitution last month. "Since the entry into force of the Kosovo Constitution, exercising my legal powers under UN Security Council resolution 1244 has become increasingly difficult in practice," said Zannier, UN chief Ban Ki-moon's special representative for Kosovo and the head of the UN mission in Kosovo (UNMIK), at a Security Council meeting. "I am not, as the special representative of the secretary-general, in a position any longer to promulgate legislation that has an undisputed binding effect," he said in his first address to the council since taking up his current post. Regular...
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