Solana hopes for December deployment

According to B92’s sources, the UN Security Council session that should decide on EULEX's deployment on in all of Kosovo has not been scheduled yet.

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According to B92’s sources, the UN Security Council session that should decide on EULEX's deployment on in all of Kosovo has not been scheduled yet. However, EU Foreign and Security Policies Chief Javier Solana said in Brussels on Monday that he expects the mission to be functional by December 2. Solana hopes for December deployment Even though the session was unofficially announced for this week, the UN Security Council meeting at which Secretary General Ban Ki-moon was expect to report on Kosovo, has yet to be scheduled. B92’s sources stated that it is possible that "some parts of the report are still being harmonized", and that changes could include Kosovo Albanian government’s rejection of the plan which was drafted by the UN and Belgrade, on the reconfiguration of UNMIK and deployment of the EU mission. “I can say that I expect that the report from the UN Secretary General will be published soon. I hope that a statement from the president of the Security Council would follow,” Solana said. “We also hope, and I have talked with [EULEX chief] General de Kermabon today, that the implementation of EULEX will begin on time, in early December, maybe as soon as December 2, and that it will be deployed through Kosovo’s territory,” Solana said. The Serbian government has been assured that the report will stick with the six-point plan which Belgrade insisted on, which calls for EULEX to be neutral toward the issue of Kosovo's status and that it not be based on the plan of former UN envoy Martti Ahtisaari for the internationally-supervised independence of Kosovo. Meanwhile in Pristina, media are speculating that "the first victim of the EULEX deal", should it pass at the UN SC, could be EU's special representative in Kosovo Pieter Feith. Reports say that the Dutch diplomat, who heads the ICO in Pristina, "will hardly be able to play the role he has according to the Ahtisaari plan, if a status-netural mission is established in Kosovo". B92's sources claim that Feith, unhappy with the deal struck with Belgrade, has already offered his resignation. But Feith's spokesman Andy McGuffie reacted on Monday evening denying this with a statement that said, "This speculation is nonsense. Pieter Feith has not offered his resignation, neither in his capacity as EUSR nor as ICR."

Solana hopes for December deployment

Even though the session was unofficially announced for this week, the UN Security Council meeting at which Secretary General Ban Ki-moon was expect to report on Kosovo, has yet to be scheduled.

B92’s sources stated that it is possible that "some parts of the report are still being harmonized", and that changes could include Kosovo Albanian government’s rejection of the plan which was drafted by the UN and Belgrade, on the reconfiguration of UNMIK and deployment of the EU mission.

“I can say that I expect that the report from the UN Secretary General will be published soon. I hope that a statement from the president of the Security Council would follow,” Solana said.

“We also hope, and I have talked with [EULEX chief] General de Kermabon today, that the implementation of EULEX will begin on time, in early December, maybe as soon as December 2, and that it will be deployed through Kosovo’s territory,” Solana said.

The Serbian government has been assured that the report will stick with the six-point plan which Belgrade insisted on, which calls for EULEX to be neutral toward the issue of Kosovo's status and that it not be based on the plan of former UN envoy Martti Ahtisaari for the internationally-supervised independence of Kosovo.

Meanwhile in Priština, media are speculating that "the first victim of the EULEX deal", should it pass at the UN SC, could be EU's special representative in Kosovo Pieter Feith.

Reports say that the Dutch diplomat, who heads the ICO in Priština, "will hardly be able to play the role he has according to the Ahtisaari plan, if a status-netural mission is established in Kosovo".

B92's sources claim that Feith, unhappy with the deal struck with Belgrade, has already offered his resignation.

But Feith's spokesman Andy McGuffie reacted on Monday evening denying this with a statement that said, "This speculation is nonsense. Pieter Feith has not offered his resignation, neither in his capacity as EUSR nor as ICR."

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