Remarks by Ambassador Robert Hardwood, Choice Representative for Unique Political Issues, at a UN Security Council Instruction on Kosovo

.Oct 30, 2024.Thanks, Madam Head of state. As well as thanks Unique Rep Ziadeh, for your rundown. Our company would love to recognize the efforts you and also your team at UNMIK have actually made earlier interethnic dialogue and also the guideline of regulation reform in Kosovo.Our experts are actually responsible to additionally acknowledge there are other UN citizen agencies in Kosovo who are actually more properly performing this kind of work.

After an one-fourth of a century, UNMIK has long outlasted its initial directed, and the United States asks for the Council to evaluate UNMIK in Kosovo and also pursue its ultimate sunset.There are actually considerably greater requirements on the Safety Council’s time, as most of us know, and also these rundowns should be actually lessened to annual, exclusive appointments. Our experts additionally recommend UNMIK, in potential coverage, to preserve a neutral perspective, to better mirror UNMIK’s impartiality.It has actually been actually greater than a year since the Serb paramilitary assault on the Kosovo Police Office near the Banjska Abbey in northern Kosovo, as well as Serbia has created no meaningful development in holding accountable those entailed, featuring the self-proclaimed forerunner of the assault, Milan Radoicic. Our team recommend full liability based on the rule of regulation.Our experts also remain concerned over unskillful activities taken by the Federal government of Kosovo, which are actually inconsistent with Kosovo’s devotion to resolve the EU-facilitated Dialogue.

These actions have an effect on the welfare of vulnerable as well as non-majority communities as well as threaten the course to normalization in between Kosovo as well as Serbia.The USA shares the desire of people of the Western Balkans, featuring Kosovo as well as Serbia, to build higher local economic combination, foster local security, freedom and also multi-ethnic cultures, as well as to preserve the rule of regulation.The EU-facilitated Conversation is the agreed road for normalization in between Serbia as well as Kosovo and progress in the direction of registration in European establishments.The United States continues to team up with the EU, the OSCE, as well as NATO partners to keep tensions low in the north of Kosovo to prevent escalatory procedures by either celebration and also to push forward on applying all Discussion dedications in between Serbia as well as Kosovo, including the establishment of the Association of Serb-majority Districts. Our experts forewarn both edges against uncoordinated or escalatory actions and recommend them to resolve problems within the Discussion’s framework.The utmost target of the United States remains ultimate reciprocal acknowledgment.Thanks, Madam President.