UN HQ denies UNMIK speculation

The UN mission to Kosovo, UNMIK, will remain in the province in line with Resolution 1244, Beta says.

Izvor: Beta

Friday, 04.04.2008.

09:43

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The UN mission to Kosovo, UNMIK, will remain in the province in line with Resolution 1244, Beta says. The news agency was quoting UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon's spokesman Brendan Varma who today in New York denied Albanian language media reports in Pristina that UNMIK will wrap up its presence there on June 15. UN HQ denies UNMIK speculation Meantime, UNMIK's spokesman in Pristina, Sveb Lindholm, told reporters today that UNMIK will "change its presence in Kosovo, based on the situation in the field". "We don't know what UNMIK's presence will look like after June 15, when it is estimated Kosovo's constitution will take effect, but we are monitoring the situation in the field and we will react accordingly", he said. At the same time, UNMIK's deputy in charge of economic affairs, Paul Agda, said this mission's so-called fourth pillar will finalize mid-June. The UN official specified that this decision was "taken by the European Union", which was in charge of Kosovo's economic development. Earlier, Pristina daily Koha Ditore said that "UNMIK will be lose its current powers in Kosovo starting in June". According to the Albanian-language daily, once the Kosovo constitution is enacted, which is expected on June 15, "UNMIK will state that a new reality has been created in Kosovo, and that a reconfiguration of its presence will begin". The daily’s undisclosed source claims that the UN will then have a UN office in Kosovo that will have "similar duties and authorities that such offices have in other independent and sovereign countries". "Once the new Kosovo constitution comes into force, the process of transferring powers from UNMIK to the Kosovo institutions is expected to speed up." the paper claims. According to this report, the first transfers will be in the fields of justice and the police, which will in part be taken over by EULEX, while direct authority will be transferred to the corresponding Kosovo institutions. The source quoted by the daily added that UNMIK employees "have been duly informed of these plans".

UN HQ denies UNMIK speculation

Meantime, UNMIK's spokesman in Priština, Sveb Lindholm, told reporters today that UNMIK will "change its presence in Kosovo, based on the situation in the field".

"We don't know what UNMIK's presence will look like after June 15, when it is estimated Kosovo's constitution will take effect, but we are monitoring the situation in the field and we will react accordingly", he said.

At the same time, UNMIK's deputy in charge of economic affairs, Paul Agda, said this mission's so-called fourth pillar will finalize mid-June.

The UN official specified that this decision was "taken by the European Union", which was in charge of Kosovo's economic development.

Earlier, Priština daily Koha Ditore said that "UNMIK will be lose its current powers in Kosovo starting in June".

According to the Albanian-language daily, once the Kosovo constitution is enacted, which is expected on June 15, "UNMIK will state that a new reality has been created in Kosovo, and that a reconfiguration of its presence will begin".

The daily’s undisclosed source claims that the UN will then have a UN office in Kosovo that will have "similar duties and authorities that such offices have in other independent and sovereign countries".

"Once the new Kosovo constitution comes into force, the process of transferring powers from UNMIK to the Kosovo institutions is expected to speed up." the paper claims.

According to this report, the first transfers will be in the fields of justice and the police, which will in part be taken over by EULEX, while direct authority will be transferred to the corresponding Kosovo institutions.

The source quoted by the daily added that UNMIK employees "have been duly informed of these plans".

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