Remarks by Emissary Robert Hardwood, Substitute Rep for Unique Political Events, at a UN Safety Council Briefing on Kosovo

.October 30, 2024.Thanks, Madam President. And thank you Unique Rep Ziadeh, for your rundown. Our company want to acknowledge the efforts you and your staff at UNMIK have actually made earlier interethnic conversation and also the rule of legislation reform in Kosovo.Our team are actually duty-bound to also recognize there are various other UN citizen organizations in Kosovo that are actually a lot more correctly performing this type of job.

After an one-fourth of a century, UNMIK has long outlasted its initial required, as well as the United States asks for the Authorities to assess UNMIK in Kosovo and also work toward its possible sundown.There are actually much better demands on the Security Authorities’s time, as we all recognize, and also these instructions must be minimized to yearly, personal conferences. Our team likewise prompt UNMIK, in potential reporting, to maintain a neutral point of view, to far better reflect UNMIK’s impartiality.It has been actually much more than a year due to the fact that the Serb paramilitary attack on the Kosovo Police Headquarters near the Banjska Abbey in north Kosovo, and Serbia has made no relevant progress in incriminating those included, including the self-proclaimed leader of the assault, Milan Radoicic. Our experts prompt total accountability according to the rule of law.Our experts likewise continue to be interested over uncoordinated actions taken due to the Government of Kosovo, which are actually irregular with Kosovo’s commitment to resolve the EU-facilitated Discussion.

These actions impact the welfare of at risk and non-majority communities and threaten the road to normalization in between Kosovo and Serbia.The USA discusses the ambition of people of the Western Balkans, featuring Kosovo and Serbia, to develop better regional economical assimilation, foster regional reliability, freedom and also multi-ethnic cultures, as well as to preserve the rule of rule.The EU-facilitated Dialogue is actually the agreed path for normalization between Serbia as well as Kosovo and also improvement in the direction of subscription in European organizations.The USA continues to work with the EU, the OSCE, as well as NATO companions to always keep stress reduced in the north of Kosovo to prevent escalatory procedures through either party and to push forward on applying all Conversation commitments in between Serbia as well as Kosovo, including the establishment of the Organization of Serb-majority Districts. Our team forewarn both edges against unskillful or escalatory actions and also prompt them to resolve problems within the Discussion’s platform.The best goal of the USA remains ultimate mutual recognition.Thank you, Madam Head of state.