.Oct 30, 2024.Thank you, Madam President. And thank you Special Agent Ziadeh, for your briefing. Our experts wish to acknowledge the efforts you and also your staff at UNMIK have made earlier interethnic discussion as well as the regulation of rule reform in Kosovo.Our experts are duty-bound to additionally acknowledge there are other UN homeowner companies in Kosovo who are actually extra properly performing this type of job.
After a quarter of a century, UNMIK has actually long outlasted its own initial mandate, and also the USA asks for the Authorities to review UNMIK in Kosovo as well as work toward its ultimate sunset.There are much better requirements on the Surveillance Council’s opportunity, as most of us know, and these instructions need to be reduced to annual, personal appointments. We also advise UNMIK, in potential coverage, to retain a neutral viewpoint, to far better demonstrate UNMIK’s impartiality.It has actually been actually much more than a year because the Serb paramilitary attack on the Kosovo Police Office near the Banjska Abbey in north Kosovo, and Serbia has actually made no significant progression in incriminating those involved, consisting of the self-proclaimed leader of the attack, Milan Radoicic. We prompt complete responsibility in accordance with the guideline of legislation.Our experts additionally continue to be concerned over uncoordinated activities taken by the Federal government of Kosovo, which are actually inconsistent along with Kosovo’s dedication to overcome the EU-facilitated Discussion.
These activities affect the well-being of prone and non-majority communities and weaken the path to normalization between Kosovo and also Serbia.The United States discusses the ambition of people of the Western Balkans, including Kosovo and Serbia, to develop more significant regional economical combination, foster regional reliability, freedom and also multi-ethnic cultures, as well as to preserve the rule of regulation.The EU-facilitated Discussion is the agreed path for normalization between Serbia and also Kosovo and progression in the direction of registration in European institutions.The United States continues to team up with the EU, the OSCE, and NATO partners to keep tensions low in the north of Kosovo to deter escalatory measures through either party as well as to push forward on implementing all Conversation dedications between Serbia as well as Kosovo, consisting of the establishment of the Affiliation of Serb-majority Districts. Our team forewarn both sides against unskillful or escalatory actions and also recommend them to resolve problems within the Conversation’s framework.The supreme goal of the United States continues to be possible shared acknowledgment.Thank you, Madam President.