Remarks by Ambassador Robert Hardwood, Option Agent for Special Political Matters, at a UN Safety And Security Council Rundown on Kosovo

.October 30, 2024.Thanks, Madam President. As well as thanks Unique Agent Ziadeh, for your instruction. Our experts would like to recognize the initiatives you and also your crew at UNMIK have created earlier interethnic dialogue and the policy of regulation reform in Kosovo.We are actually responsible to also acknowledge there are other UN individual companies in Kosovo that are extra suitably doing this form of work.

After a fourth of a century, UNMIK has actually long outlasted its original directed, as well as the USA requires the Council to examine UNMIK in Kosovo and also work toward its own eventual dusk.There are a lot more significant requirements on the Safety Authorities’s time, as we all know, and also these briefings should be lowered to annual, personal meetings. We also urge UNMIK, in future reporting, to retain a neutral view, to far better mirror UNMIK’s impartiality.It has actually been actually more than a year since the Serb paramilitary attack on the Kosovo Police Station near the Banjska Monastery in northern Kosovo, and also Serbia has actually brought in no relevant progression in holding accountable those involved, consisting of the self-proclaimed innovator of the attack, Milan Radoicic. Our experts recommend full liability according to the policy of legislation.Our company also continue to be worried over unskillful actions taken due to the Federal government of Kosovo, which are inconsistent with Kosovo’s devotion to resolve the EU-facilitated Dialogue.

These activities influence the well being of prone and non-majority neighborhoods and weaken the road to normalization in between Kosovo as well as Serbia.The United States discusses the desire of people of the Western Balkans, featuring Kosovo and also Serbia, to build higher regional financial integration, foster local security, democracy and also multi-ethnic societies, and also to preserve the regulation of legislation.The EU-facilitated Discussion is actually the agreed pathway for normalization between Serbia and Kosovo and also progress in the direction of membership in European organizations.The USA continues to deal with the EU, the OSCE, and NATO companions to maintain pressures low in the north of Kosovo to put off escalatory steps by either gathering as well as to push forward on applying all Discussion devotions in between Serbia and also Kosovo, consisting of bureaucracy of the Affiliation of Serb-majority Districts. Our experts forewarn each sides versus unskillful or escalatory actions and recommend all of them to fix concerns within the Conversation’s platform.The greatest goal of the USA stays possible reciprocal awareness.Thanks, Madam Head of state.