Remarks by Ambassador Robert Hardwood, Option Representative for Unique Political Events, at a UN Safety And Security Authorities Instruction on Kosovo

.Oct 30, 2024.Thank you, Madam President. And thanks Special Agent Ziadeh, for your rundown. Our company would like to acknowledge the attempts you as well as your crew at UNMIK have created ahead of time interethnic dialogue as well as the policy of legislation reform in Kosovo.Our team are bound to also acknowledge there are other UN local agencies in Kosovo who are actually a lot more correctly doing this kind of work.

After a quarter of a century, UNMIK has actually long outlived its authentic directed, and the United States calls for the Authorities to assess UNMIK in Kosovo and also work toward its own ultimate sundown.There are actually much greater needs on the Safety and security Authorities’s opportunity, as all of us know, and also these rundowns ought to be decreased to annual, private conferences. Our company also advise UNMIK, in potential reporting, to keep a neutral perspective, to far better demonstrate UNMIK’s impartiality.It has actually been more than a year due to the fact that the Serb paramilitary strike on the Kosovo Police Station near the Banjska Abbey in north Kosovo, and Serbia has brought in no purposeful improvement in holding accountable those entailed, consisting of the self-proclaimed forerunner of the assault, Milan Radoicic. We advise full liability based on the guideline of legislation.We likewise continue to be interested over uncoordinated actions taken by the Federal government of Kosovo, which are irregular with Kosovo’s commitment to resolve the EU-facilitated Conversation.

These actions impact the well being of prone as well as non-majority communities as well as threaten the road to normalization between Kosovo and Serbia.The USA discusses the aspiration of people of the Western side Balkans, featuring Kosovo and also Serbia, to construct higher regional financial assimilation, foster regional security, freedom and multi-ethnic cultures, and to enshrine the guideline of law.The EU-facilitated Conversation is the agreed road for normalization in between Serbia and Kosovo as well as progress in the direction of subscription in European organizations.The United States continues to work with the EU, the OSCE, as well as NATO partners to maintain stress reduced in the north of Kosovo to put off escalatory measures by either event as well as to push forward on executing all Conversation dedications in between Serbia and also Kosovo, including the establishment of the Organization of Serb-majority Districts. We forewarn both edges against unskillful or even escalatory activities as well as recommend all of them to deal with concerns within the Dialogue’s framework.The best goal of the USA remains eventual common recognition.Thanks, Madam Head of state.