.October 30, 2024.Thanks, Madam President. And thanks Special Agent Ziadeh, for your briefing. Our team would like to recognize the initiatives you and also your team at UNMIK have created earlier interethnic dialogue and also the regulation of regulation reform in Kosovo.Our company are actually bound to likewise recognize there are various other UN individual organizations in Kosovo that are actually more properly performing this form of job.
After a quarter of a century, UNMIK has long outlived its initial required, and the USA requires the Council to examine UNMIK in Kosovo and work toward its resulting dusk.There are actually a lot more significant requirements on the Safety Authorities’s opportunity, as most of us understand, and these briefings ought to be actually lessened to yearly, private appointments. We likewise urge UNMIK, in future coverage, to preserve a neutral viewpoint, to better mirror UNMIK’s impartiality.It has actually been more than a year because the Serb paramilitary assault on the Kosovo Police Station near the Banjska Abbey in north Kosovo, and Serbia has actually created no purposeful improvement in holding accountable those involved, including the self-proclaimed innovator of the attack, Milan Radoicic. Our company prompt total responsibility based on the rule of law.Our company likewise stay concerned over uncoordinated actions taken due to the Federal government of Kosovo, which are actually irregular along with Kosovo’s commitment to resolve the EU-facilitated Dialogue.
These activities impact the well-being of prone and non-majority communities and also threaten the pathway to normalization in between Kosovo and Serbia.The USA discusses the desire of the people of the Western side Balkans, including Kosovo and Serbia, to create more significant regional financial assimilation, foster local reliability, freedom and also multi-ethnic communities, and also to enshrine the regulation of legislation.The EU-facilitated Discussion is actually the agreed pathway for normalization in between Serbia and also Kosovo and progression in the direction of membership in International establishments.The USA remains to partner with the EU, the OSCE, as well as NATO partners to always keep pressures low in the north of Kosovo to prevent escalatory measures through either event and to push forward on carrying out all Discussion commitments between Serbia as well as Kosovo, featuring the establishment of the Organization of Serb-majority Towns. We forewarn each sides against unskillful or escalatory activities as well as prompt all of them to resolve concerns within the Discussion’s platform.The ultimate target of the USA remains eventual reciprocal acknowledgment.Thanks, Madam Head of state.