.October 30, 2024.Thank you, Madam Head of state. And thank you Special Agent Ziadeh, for your rundown. Our team would love to acknowledge the efforts you and your staff at UNMIK have created in advancing interethnic dialogue and the guideline of legislation reform in Kosovo.Our company are responsible to additionally recognize there are various other UN local agencies in Kosovo that are actually more appropriately doing this type of work.
After an one-fourth of a century, UNMIK has actually long outlasted its own initial required, and the USA requires the Authorities to evaluate UNMIK in Kosovo and also work toward its resulting sunset.There are actually a lot greater needs on the Safety Council’s opportunity, as most of us recognize, and these briefings should be lessened to yearly, exclusive appointments. We also urge UNMIK, in future reporting, to maintain a neutral viewpoint, to far better reflect UNMIK’s impartiality.It has been actually greater than a year because the Serb paramilitary assault on the Kosovo Police Headquarters near the Banjska Monastery in northern Kosovo, and Serbia has made no meaningful development in holding accountable those entailed, consisting of the self-proclaimed forerunner of the attack, Milan Radoicic. We prompt total responsibility according to the rule of rule.Our company also stay interested over unskillful activities taken due to the Federal government of Kosovo, which are irregular with Kosovo’s commitment to work through the EU-facilitated Dialogue.
These actions impact the well being of susceptible and non-majority neighborhoods and weaken the course to normalization in between Kosovo and Serbia.The United States shares the desire of people of the Western side Balkans, consisting of Kosovo and Serbia, to build greater regional economic combination, foster regional stability, democracy as well as multi-ethnic cultures, and also to enshrine the rule of legislation.The EU-facilitated Dialogue is actually the agreed road for normalization in between Serbia and also Kosovo and also improvement towards subscription in European organizations.The United States continues to collaborate with the EU, the OSCE, and also NATO partners to keep pressures low in the north of Kosovo to deter escalatory actions through either event and also to precipitate on implementing all Dialogue dedications in between Serbia as well as Kosovo, consisting of bureaucracy of the Organization of Serb-majority Communities. Our experts warn both edges versus unskillful or even escalatory actions as well as urge all of them to address concerns within the Dialogue’s framework.The best goal of the USA continues to be possible shared recognition.Thanks, Madam President.