| UNMIK: Kosovo office breaches Resolution 1244 |
| 15 December 2007 | 09:50
| Source:
FoNet |
PRIŠTINA --
An UNMIK spokesman says Resolution 1244 does not envisage Serbia opening a representative office in Kosovo.
“If the government wishes to open an office in Kosovo, it must ask permission from UNMIK first, and they haven’t even mentioned the matter to us” said Alexander Ivanko. “We’ve put up with the Kosovo Coordination Center, because we had a written agreement with them, and we have maintained contact with them over the issue of returnees and missing persons,” he added.
He said that UNMIK chief Joachim Ruecker had mentioned the opening of the office to the Contact Group, and had asked them to send a demarche to Belgrade, as it would be “best if that office shut.”
The UNMIK spokesman stated that a final solution for Kosovo’s status would not have a negative effect on the region, but rather stabilize it, though he did not reply when asked if UNMIK could annul a potential unilateral declaration of independence since, as he put it, it was necessary to first wait for the Security Council’s decision on December 19.
He also felt that security in Kosovo was “very satisfactory in this turbulent period.”
Speaking of the situation in Kosovska Mitrovica, Ivanko stressed that leaders in the north had been told to withhold from any acts that might hinder the work of the infrastructure in supplying the south with water and electricity.
The UNMIK spokesman reiterated that “three red lines” had existed for some time that UNMIK would not cross in Kosovska Mitrovica, and they were “no violence, no breaking off relations with UNMIK, and no parallel security structures.”
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