English/Nat The E-U's top foreign policy officials, Javier Solana and Chris Patten, are in Kosovo on a two-day visit. The purpose of their trip is to assess reconstruction efforts and the current political climate in the embattled province. The two men will also meet with leaders of local Serb and Albanian communities. Also in the province on Thursday was the new chief prosecutor of the Yugoslav war crimes tribunal, Carla Del Ponte. Carla Del Ponte is on her first tour of the Balkans since she succeeded Louise Arbour last month as the chief prosecutor of the Yugoslav war Crimes Tribunal. As she began her tour in Kosovo she said her top priority is the arrest and trial former Bosnian Serb military commander Ratko Mladic and Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic. The E-U's top foreign policy officials, Javier Solana and Chris Patten, are also in Kosovo. Both Solana and Patten have been in their new jobs at the E-U for little more than a month. Solana, the former NATO Secretary-General is now the E-U's Representative for Foreign and Security Policy and former Hong Kong Governor Chris Patten is the E-U's external relations commissioner. By visiting Kosovo so soon after their appointments, Patten and Solana are highlighting the E-U's desire to prove itself in the Balkans, after years of criticism that it has neglected the region and misunderstood its problems. The two men will inspect E-U assistance projects and meet leaders of the local Serb and Albanian communities. They'll also be spending time with K-FOR commander Klaus Reinhardt and the head of Kosovo's post-war U-N administration, Bernard Kouchner. SOUNDBITE: (English) "Everybody, yes everybody. Everybody from the Albanians and of course we're going to have dinner with Mr Kouchner and his team, the team of the European Commission." SUPER CAPTION: Javier Solana, EU Representative for Foreign and Security Policy Patten and Solana have identified Kosovo and the Balkans as priorities in E-U foreign policy. SOUNDBITE: (English) "To look at the contribution which the European Union has made here in Kosovo and to see how we can do a better job, particularly for example preparing for the winter, but also long-term assistance as well as continuing humanitarian assistance." SUPER CAPTION: Chris Patten, EU External Relations Commissioner Carla Del Ponte says she's in the Balkans to focus on public indictments against war criminals. SOUNDBITE: (English) "Tomorrow I will have a press conference and I will tell you what I can tell you then, please tomorrow." SUPER CAPTION: Carla Del Ponte, Chief Prosecutor, Yugoslav War Crimes Tribunal Del Ponte plans to travel to Bosnia and Croatia later this week. You can license this story through AP Archive: www.aparchive.com/metadata/youtube/b526580bd2140f478b4d9b5f7313f070 Find out more about AP Archive: www.aparchive.com/HowWeWork

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