“Serbia has no authority in Kosovo”

U.S. ambassador to Kosovo Christopher Dell said that all efforts of Serbia to reconstitute its structures and institutions in Kosovo would be illegal.

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Saturday, 16.01.2010.

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U.S. ambassador to Kosovo Christopher Dell said that all efforts of Serbia to reconstitute its structures and institutions in Kosovo would be illegal. Dell said that all of Serbia’s authority in Kosovo ended in 1999, according to the UN Security Council Resolution 1244. “Serbia has no authority in Kosovo” “You can have differing opinions on whether UNMIK or the Kosovo government have the ultimate power here, but what is certain is that with the resolution, all of Serbia’s authority and jurisdiction in Kosovo ended,” Dell said. Serbian Kosovo Minister Goran Bogdanovic said, however, that Serbs and Serbia cannot allow the implementation of the international community’s plan for abolishing the Serbian structures in north Kosovo. “As long as the European Union mission’s status is neutral, Serbia will be a reliable partner, however we cannot be expected to sit with our arms crossed if this position is not respected,” Bogdanovic said. EU special representative in Kosovo Pieter Feith said that there is a strategy for the integration of north Kosovo which calls for the implementation of Kosovo institutions on that territory. Bogdanovic said that Feith’s statements “are made as if they have the intention of increasing tension on purpose.” “It is hard to tell when he is speaking in the name of the European Union and when in he is speaking in the name of the international group that is implementing the Ahtisaari plan. It is now up to the international community to show that it understands the importance of the moment and the readiness to act, because the blame will fall on those who want to impose a solution without the approval of the residents, not only in northern Kosovo but through out all of our Serbian province,” Bogdanovic said. He also called on peace and unity in Strpce, where officials elected in the recent Kosovo elections took over the local assembly building from those elected in earlier elections organized by Belgrade. “At this moment the thing we need least is Serb on Serb conflicts,” he said.

“Serbia has no authority in Kosovo”

“You can have differing opinions on whether UNMIK or the Kosovo government have the ultimate power here, but what is certain is that with the resolution, all of Serbia’s authority and jurisdiction in Kosovo ended,” Dell said.

Serbian Kosovo Minister Goran Bogdanović said, however, that Serbs and Serbia cannot allow the implementation of the international community’s plan for abolishing the Serbian structures in north Kosovo.

“As long as the European Union mission’s status is neutral, Serbia will be a reliable partner, however we cannot be expected to sit with our arms crossed if this position is not respected,” Bogdanović said.

EU special representative in Kosovo Pieter Feith said that there is a strategy for the integration of north Kosovo which calls for the implementation of Kosovo institutions on that territory.

Bogdanović said that Feith’s statements “are made as if they have the intention of increasing tension on purpose.”

“It is hard to tell when he is speaking in the name of the European Union and when in he is speaking in the name of the international group that is implementing the Ahtisaari plan. It is now up to the international community to show that it understands the importance of the moment and the readiness to act, because the blame will fall on those who want to impose a solution without the approval of the residents, not only in northern Kosovo but through out all of our Serbian province,” Bogdanović said.

He also called on peace and unity in Štrpce, where officials elected in the recent Kosovo elections took over the local assembly building from those elected in earlier elections organized by Belgrade.

“At this moment the thing we need least is Serb on Serb conflicts,” he said.

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