Kosovo residents await UN session

Both Albanians and Serbs in Kosovo expect today’s UN Security Council session to approve the deployment of the EULEX mission to the province.

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Wednesday, 26.11.2008.

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Both Albanians and Serbs in Kosovo expect today’s UN Security Council session to approve the deployment of the EULEX mission to the province. Kosovo leaders remain opposed to the UN six-point plan, which defines more specifically the rights of Serbs in the areas of police, courts and customs, and which is part of UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon’s report and the anticipated Security Council chairman’s statement for the deployment of the EU mission. Kosovo residents await UN session State Secretary in Serbia’s Kosovo Ministry Oliver Ivanovic said that he expected the UN SC to offer a solution that would depend on the current mood of the institution’s five permanent members. “I hope that the essential things which we insisted on will remain, which are primarily Resolution 1244, and through the resolution, the confirmation of Serbia’s territorial integrity over the territory,” Ivanovic said. Kosovo Prime Minister Hashim Thaci, however, said that Resolution 1244 is not of importance to the Kosovo institutions and has no meaning in the sovereign state of Kosovo. Despite opposing the six-point plan, Thaci said that the Kosovo institutions supported the arrival of EULEX, and would cooperate with the mission in implementing the Kosovo constitution and Ahtisaari Plan in line with the EU’s mandate. There appears to be a consensus from all sides in favor of the deployment of EULEX, which not even the Kosovo Serbs in the north are opposing. U.S. Ambassador in Kosovo Tina Kaidanow said that the goal of the mission was to guarantee and facilitate the rule of law for all Kosovo’s residents. Ivanovic said that UNMIK’s new role in the province would be to provide a bridge between the Serb and Albanian communities, and that the Kosovo Serbs expected security in both a legal and physical sense. “That way we will have a more robust mission which will deal with the courts and police, which means that they will investigate crimes committed against Serbs in 1999, which have been rather forgotten about, as well as crimes committed more recently,” he said. If EULEX is given the green light in New York, it will administer and observe the work of the Kosovo police, courts and customs. The mission’s mandate has not been strictly defined, but is expected to last at least five years.

Kosovo residents await UN session

State Secretary in Serbia’s Kosovo Ministry Oliver Ivanović said that he expected the UN SC to offer a solution that would depend on the current mood of the institution’s five permanent members.

“I hope that the essential things which we insisted on will remain, which are primarily Resolution 1244, and through the resolution, the confirmation of Serbia’s territorial integrity over the territory,” Ivanović said.

Kosovo Prime Minister Hashim Thaci, however, said that Resolution 1244 is not of importance to the Kosovo institutions and has no meaning in the sovereign state of Kosovo.

Despite opposing the six-point plan, Thaci said that the Kosovo institutions supported the arrival of EULEX, and would cooperate with the mission in implementing the Kosovo constitution and Ahtisaari Plan in line with the EU’s mandate.

There appears to be a consensus from all sides in favor of the deployment of EULEX, which not even the Kosovo Serbs in the north are opposing.

U.S. Ambassador in Kosovo Tina Kaidanow said that the goal of the mission was to guarantee and facilitate the rule of law for all Kosovo’s residents.

Ivanović said that UNMIK’s new role in the province would be to provide a bridge between the Serb and Albanian communities, and that the Kosovo Serbs expected security in both a legal and physical sense.

“That way we will have a more robust mission which will deal with the courts and police, which means that they will investigate crimes committed against Serbs in 1999, which have been rather forgotten about, as well as crimes committed more recently,” he said.

If EULEX is given the green light in New York, it will administer and observe the work of the Kosovo police, courts and customs.

The mission’s mandate has not been strictly defined, but is expected to last at least five years.

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