Italian Republic
Ambassador Aldo Mantovani
Italy is an elected member of the UN Security Council whose term expires on December 31, 2008. Aldo Mantovani is Italy’s deputy permanent representative to the United Nations. The following is excerpted from debate during the 5,839th meeting of the UN Security Council on February 18, 2008. We certainly cannot say that yesterday’s declaration ofindependence by the Kosovo Assembly has caught any one of us unprepared. Therehas been a growing perception that momentum was building on the Kosovo futurestatus issue. That momentum is the result of long and intensive efforts by theinternational community, through which we had hoped to bridge…
