New UNMIK chief to renew "shuttle diplomacy"

UNMIK Chief Lamberto Zannier says he will employ “shuttle diplomacy” between Belgrade and Priština to find a solution on the ground.

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Wednesday, 25.06.2008.

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UNMIK Chief Lamberto Zannier says he will employ “shuttle diplomacy” between Belgrade and Pristina to find a solution on the ground. "The moment the Serbian political situation clears up, and a new government is formed, I intend to make contact at an appropriate level, in complete transparency with the Kosovo authorities, so that we can begin talks on solutions to practical problems,” Zannier said. New UNMIK chief to renew "shuttle diplomacy" The new UNMIK chief told a press conference that he saw his role in Kosovo in the terms of establishing “firm relations” between Belgrade and Pristina. He added that he would act “neutrally in regard to Kosovo’s status” and repeated that UN Security Council Resolution 1244 was still in force. Zannier said that he did not see himself as a mediator, but as a man who would make talks easier, adding that before each meeting with Belgrade officials, he would consult the authorities in Pristina. He said that UNMIK had still not received the reconfiguration plan, but stressed that reconfiguration would be a radical operation that would change UNMIK’s status and adjust it to the real situation on ground. The UNMIK chief added that 120 days after the promulgation of the Kosovo constitution and the reconfiguration, UNMIK would still be able to play a certain role in Kosovo, and that the UN Security Council would decide on Kosovo leaders’ calls for UNMIK to leave the province. Zannier added that UNMIK was prepared to stay longer than 120 days if the situation required, and if it was so decided. “UNMIK will be restructured in such a way that it will be adjusted according to the situation on the ground, and that will be a smaller operation that will, nonetheless, have a significant role on the ground,“ he added. The UNMIK chief said that the EULEX mission would have a different role to that of the UN mission, and that the arrangement of having EULEX under an UNMIK umbrella was something that needed to be “discussed carefully“. “The umbrella is Security Council Resolution 1244, and EULEX needs to accept that umbrella, and I’m glad that it will work under it, and in a form where its work will be compatible with that of UNMIK,“ Zannier surmised.

New UNMIK chief to renew "shuttle diplomacy"

The new UNMIK chief told a press conference that he saw his role in Kosovo in the terms of establishing “firm relations” between Belgrade and Priština. He added that he would act “neutrally in regard to Kosovo’s status” and repeated that UN Security Council Resolution 1244 was still in force.

Zannier said that he did not see himself as a mediator, but as a man who would make talks easier, adding that before each meeting with Belgrade officials, he would consult the authorities in Priština.

He said that UNMIK had still not received the reconfiguration plan, but stressed that reconfiguration would be a radical operation that would change UNMIK’s status and adjust it to the real situation on ground.

The UNMIK chief added that 120 days after the promulgation of the Kosovo constitution and the reconfiguration, UNMIK would still be able to play a certain role in Kosovo, and that the UN Security Council would decide on Kosovo leaders’ calls for UNMIK to leave the province.

Zannier added that UNMIK was prepared to stay longer than 120 days if the situation required, and if it was so decided.

“UNMIK will be restructured in such a way that it will be adjusted according to the situation on the ground, and that will be a smaller operation that will, nonetheless, have a significant role on the ground,“ he added.

The UNMIK chief said that the EULEX mission would have a different role to that of the UN mission, and that the arrangement of having EULEX under an UNMIK umbrella was something that needed to be “discussed carefully“.

“The umbrella is Security Council Resolution 1244, and EULEX needs to accept that umbrella, and I’m glad that it will work under it, and in a form where its work will be compatible with that of UNMIK,“ Zannier surmised.

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