Priština press: UNMIK report on January 16
Joachim Ruecker will present his tri-monthly Kosovo report to the UN SC on January 16, writes Priština daily Zeri.
Saturday, 05.01.2008.
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Joachim Ruecker will present his tri-monthly Kosovo report to the UN SC on January 16, writes Pristina daily Zeri. The UNMIK chief’s report on the implementation of standards in Kosovo, covering the period from the beginning of September to mid-December 2007, states that the elections and the Kosovo status question were the most important events, and that “not a single case of threat to the freedom of movement was registered.” Pristina press: UNMIK report on January 16 “In the section on ‘freedom of movement’, it is mentioned that in October, some 1000 Serb worshippers from Kosovo, Serbia and Montenegro took part in a religious ceremony in the Pec Patriarchy. The majority visited the monastery in Decani without any police escort,” Zeri quotes the UNMIK report as saying. In the section on the November 17 elections in Kosovo, it is written that “Serb participation was very low.” “In the parts of Kosovo inhabited by Serbs, only 54 of the planned 107 polling stations were opened, some of which were mobile. After the Belgrade authorities’ call for a boycott, headmasters did not allow their schools to be used as polling stations,” the report continues. It adds that 17 of the 33 Kosovo Serb parties asked to be withdrawn from the process prior to the election date. According to the daily, Ruecker stresses that the Council of Europe mission deemed the elections free and proper. The report goes on to say that minority representation in the Kosovo Corps has remained at the same level as in previous months. “Of 2906 active Kosovo Corps members, 6.6 percent belonged to minorities, while 1.4 percent were Serbs,” the report specifies. The UNMIK chief focuses on other aspects of standards in Kosovo, stating that “the implementation of the anti-corruption plan has not gone as planned in areas such as administration, police, and the judiciary.” It is claimed that the Kosovo government is already preparing a plan for April 2008 that will represent an instructive document for the implementation of standards. Joachim Ruecker (FoNet, archive)
Priština press: UNMIK report on January 16
“In the section on ‘freedom of movement’, it is mentioned that in October, some 1000 Serb worshippers from Kosovo, Serbia and Montenegro took part in a religious ceremony in the Peć Patriarchy. The majority visited the monastery in Dečani without any police escort,” Zeri quotes the UNMIK report as saying.In the section on the November 17 elections in Kosovo, it is written that “Serb participation was very low.”
“In the parts of Kosovo inhabited by Serbs, only 54 of the planned 107 polling stations were opened, some of which were mobile. After the Belgrade authorities’ call for a boycott, headmasters did not allow their schools to be used as polling stations,” the report continues.
It adds that 17 of the 33 Kosovo Serb parties asked to be withdrawn from the process prior to the election date.
According to the daily, Ruecker stresses that the Council of Europe mission deemed the elections free and proper.
The report goes on to say that minority representation in the Kosovo Corps has remained at the same level as in previous months.
“Of 2906 active Kosovo Corps members, 6.6 percent belonged to minorities, while 1.4 percent were Serbs,” the report specifies.
The UNMIK chief focuses on other aspects of standards in Kosovo, stating that “the implementation of the anti-corruption plan has not gone as planned in areas such as administration, police, and the judiciary.”
It is claimed that the Kosovo government is already preparing a plan for April 2008 that will represent an instructive document for the implementation of standards.
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