tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-91409384932405831642024-03-06T00:31:35.440-05:00Real Diplomacy and PeacekeepingUS State Department cables from places I have served plus items from my time as a UN peacekeeper. To increase public awareness of how diplomacy and peacekeeping are (were) actually done. All cables cleared by USG FOIA procedure. Cables are mostly those sent under my name from my posts but also others in which I was directly involved. UN documents and other items will also include occasional notes and background. Most recent in series on top with cables under the new series of UN documents.Gerard Galluccihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15909722623126534873noreply@blogger.comBlogger297125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9140938493240583164.post-63241518218729140322023-10-10T18:26:00.005-04:002023-10-10T18:26:26.650-04:0091 STATE 388774: DAVIDOW HAVANA MEETING WITH GPRA DELEGATION<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjnHjXM-qo3S8lWOUo4ElMkomllQC_iS7GZt3sNbnBQi24BFuODmw8WVN3LovaoteKGuyC4GngTjd9AFv9xB397yaeOf4sOptLIIGVhKEJSQzqyVweKbglwaY-JaUHzCPoYnjDBi4pr9zCn96unUhcUzJY-c7CX7eJrHOHaTKlKDmYw7_G5c1ZBrhDuTT5m/s792/91%20STATE%20388774.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="792" data-original-width="612" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjnHjXM-qo3S8lWOUo4ElMkomllQC_iS7GZt3sNbnBQi24BFuODmw8WVN3LovaoteKGuyC4GngTjd9AFv9xB397yaeOf4sOptLIIGVhKEJSQzqyVweKbglwaY-JaUHzCPoYnjDBi4pr9zCn96unUhcUzJY-c7CX7eJrHOHaTKlKDmYw7_G5c1ZBrhDuTT5m/s16000/91%20STATE%20388774.jpg" /></a></div><br /><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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A piece from 2010 that may be more relevant today as the parties -- especially the US, and the Europeans -- may be more ready to push the parties off <i>dead stopped</i>: <a href="https://www.rferl.org/a/Crafting_A_Special_Status_For_Northern_Kosovo/2148191.html">https://www.rferl.org/a/Crafting_A_Special_Status_For_Northern_Kosovo/2148191.html</a><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">On May 21, 2008, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis_M._Ssekandi">Judge Francis M. Ssekandi</a> delivered to the UN Security Council a report on his investigation into UNMIK's actions around the <a href="https://realdiplomacy.blogspot.com/2018/11/kosovo-march-17-2008-coutrthouse-debacle.html">March 17, 2007 events in North Mitrovica</a>.
On that date, UNMIK's Pristina HQ ordered the use of force against
former Serbian court officials occupying the courthouse in the northern
part of the city. We in the region -- UNMIK, <a href="https://realdiplomacy.blogspot.com/2018/12/kosovo-unmik-police-report-on-march-17.html">UN Police</a> and the local NATO elements, had argued against pursuing that course of
action. The report has not, to my knowledge, ever been released. But it highlights the need for the UN to not take sides in resolving political issues during its peacekeeping mission. A
former UN New York staff member gave me a copy some time ago. </span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Judge
Ssekendi interviewed me and many others for the report, which was the
background to the UNSG's eventual decision to replace the top UNMIK
leadership -- the SRSG and his principle deputy -- by not renewing their
contracts. The report contains some comments from the disgraced UNMIK
leadership suggesting that I improperly was in contact with some member
governments and passed my debacle report to the Serbs. I did, of
course, have frequent contacts with member state representatives --
especially with those from Security Council countries -- in an effort to help them
understand the complexities of the north. I made a special effort to do
this with the US office in Pristina as its staff were forbidden to even
visit north Mitrovica to see for themselves. I did not release my
debacle report to anyone not of the UN international staff in Kosovo and New
York. I learned later that one of my officers had done so because he
thought it would prove useful in convincing the northern Kosovo Serbs
that the UN staff in the north was not part of an effort to subject them
to the new "independent" Kosovo government. The Ssekandi report did in
fact note UNMIK Pristina's apparent tilt toward using its UNSCR 1244
peacekeeping mandate to assist instead Pristina's efforts to subject the
northern Serbs to its control, thus abandoning status neutrality.
UNMIK Pristina was pushed in this direction by the US, UK and Germany.</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The
Scekandi report noted that UNMIK HQ would have been better served by
taking into account our warnings from the north. But by the time of the
March events, I had become a perceived problem in Pristina because of
our repeated efforts to caution against use of force and instead urging dialogue with the K-Serbs and elements of the Serbian government
in a position to assist in gaining a peaceful outcome to the court
seizure.</span></b><br />
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Gerard Galluccihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15909722623126534873noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9140938493240583164.post-39332341446704780472019-03-23T06:53:00.000-04:002019-03-23T06:55:01.969-04:00Kosovo: Meeting of the Mitrovica Focus Group, 19 April 2006<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<b><span style="color: #0c343d; font-size: small;"><i><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">This was an attempt to bring together the north Kosovo Serbian community with the Pristina diplomatic community to reengage on practical issues of local concern. Not all of the internationals felt comfortable doing this on their own. The Americans did not feel safe even going into the north. The meeting was held in our UNMIK Mitrovica HQ. </span></i></span><span style="color: #134f5c; font-size: small;"><i><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">(I did not draft these minutes.) </span></i></span></b></div>
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<b>UNMIK Participants:</b> Gerard Gallucci, RR Mitrovica; Andrei
Efimov, SPA Mitrovica; Detlef Beisiegel, MR Leposavic; Jean-Luc
Sintes, MR Zubin Potok; Alex Melbourne, OIC MR Zvecan, michail
Krasnoshchekov, PAO/SRSG, Svetlana Pencheva , PED, Mitrovica, LtCol.
Noel Joyce, Senior MLO Mitrovica, Lt.Col. LeMarec, KFOR.</div>
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<b>Serbian participants:</b> Momir Kaslovic, Head of regional CCK,
Srbrolujb Milenkovic, Chairperson of UAM Advisory Board, Dragisa
Milovic, MAP Zvecan, Slavisa Ristic, MAP Zubin Potok; Velimir
Bojovic, MAP Leposavic</div>
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<b>Participants of International Liaison</b> <b>offices:</b> Zoltan
Balazs, Deputy Head of Office, Hungary; Ruairi O’Connel, Deputy
Head of Mission, Bristish office; Ann-Sofie Nilsson, Head of office,
Sweden; Gloria Di Luca, Deputy head of office, Italy; Wim Peeters,
Head of Mission, Belgium; Margriet Struijf, Head of Office,
Netherland; Sergey Bazdnikin, Head of Chancery, Russuan Federation;
Yvana Enzler, Head of Mission, Swiss LO; Wolfgang Koeth, EC Office;
T. Kirk McBride, Chief Political and economic Affairs, USA; Heidi
Hakone L Barrachina, PO, US Office, Eugen Wollfarth, Head of German
LO, Pierri Johan Kuan, Norweegian LO, Rodolphe Richard, Deputy head
French LO, Christos Tzavaras, Head of Greek LO, Christian Siegl,
Deputy Head of Austrian LO.</div>
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The Regional Representative of Mitrovica Mr. Gerard Gallucci welcome
international participants at the first part (without locals) of the
meeting of the Mitrovica Focus Group (MFG). He said that the MFG is
seen as continuation of the initiative “Friends of Mitrovica”
that commenced in early 2004. The MFG is a group with focus on
Mitrovica region, the stickiest problem of Kosovo and it is good to
see international stakeholders with an interest what the
international community can do to keep the place calm and peaceful.
MFG is not focused specifically on the north. The next meeting
hopefully will embrace all six MAPs of the region. The CA in
Mitrovica has been developing relationship with the three northern
municipalities and UAM and keeping the relationship with Albanian
from the south part of the region. CA is seeking to develop
relationship of engaging them positively with the International
Community and even offer them some solutions related to the every day
problems of local communities. The population in the region has
problems with insufficient drinking water usage, and K-Serbs and
K-Albanians have found it possible to meet and talk to each other to
address this issue. We want your engagement and financial support and
we are particularly interested in dialogue between northerners and
the international community.Our concern is how to hold the north,
which we find to work with us. Serbia might advise them to cease
cooperation as it happened with Education. We find it important to
give the northerners opportunity to be heard, listening has had
positive effect, a focus helping them with a practical concern. They
have been advice to keep politics to a minimum when coming here. They
will be bringing with them a list of priority quick impact projects
of most immediate impact. (QIP). The international community is a
good listener and a positive partner.
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At the second part of the meeting K-Serbs joined it. The RR gives the
floor to K-Serbian participants for brief presentations:
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<b>Miomir Kasalovic</b>, Head of Regional CCK. He welcomes
participants in his name and on behalf of Sanda Raskovic-Ivic. He
presented issues in his opinion comprising the biggest burden for the
population in Northern Kosovo:</div>
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<b>Internally displaced persons ( IDPs</b>). There is no adequate
accommodation for them and we would like to provide such for
everyone.</div>
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<b>Roma IDPs</b>. It’s one of the huge burdens, for which we need
to find solution.</div>
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<b>Employment.</b> It is much needed for IDPs, to have jobs and
provide incomes for their families. The CCK is doing as much as
possible, but its recourses are rather limited.</div>
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<b>Infrastructure. </b>The road network is in worse state than in
1999. Even what we had has been damaged by heavy KFOR vehicles. We
want to improve the road network and to have investments in the
road infrastructure</div>
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</ul>
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These problems are problems of all ethnicities. I am not going to
count everything else we miss and need, but let us start from the
basic issues.</div>
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<b>Dragisa Milovic</b>, <b>MAP, Zvecan</b>. He welcomes participants.
He is MAP of a municipality with 17,000 populations. All problems
which have been mentioned by Mr. Kasalovic are common for all
northern municipalities. For the first time we stay around the table
with people who are willing to help us. More attention has been paid
until now to the Albanian community.
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<b>Infrastructure.</b> If you have visited northern municipalities
you should have seen the condition of roads there. The
infrastructure needs to be improved. The municipality has put
efforts but its resources are strongly insufficient.</div>
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<b>IDPs. </b>There are 4,000 IDPs for which only the municipality
takes care. Not much has been done for providing decent conditions
for IDPs. We fully support new UNMIK approach that allows people to
choose to live where they feel comfortable.
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<b>Employment.</b> There is 3,000 unemployed in the municipality,
many of them former Trepca workers. We see the solution in opening
mines and creation of small and medium size enterprises with 10-50
employees. There are good conditions in the municipality for stock
breeding, fruit production, and tourism. Municipality Zvecan has
prepared projects and can offer solutions for all these.</div>
</li>
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<b>Tourism.</b> Favourable conditions for tourism stay with Banjska
mineral spa, where 5,000 people were coming yearly for treatment
and rehabilitation till 1999</div>
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<b>Sports facilities. </b>There are not such facilities in the
northern part of Kosovo and they are much needed especially for the
young generations. To keep young people away from drugs we need to
offer them employment, jobs and alternative activities.</div>
</li>
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<b>Available experts in all fields</b>. We have experts in all
fields who are currently unemployed. What is needed -- a little
support and chance to do what they can. We have relevant projects
and you may wish to look at them.</div>
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</ul>
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<b>Salvias Rustic, MAP Cubin Pothook. </b>He thanks for the
opportunity to talk to internationals on practical matters without
touching upon politics. If we succeed to solve problems of people for
their every day life we shall solve also the political problems. I am
MAP of North-West municipality, which had just 10,000 populations
till 1999, now the number is much bigger due to many Dips that
settled there from other places like Croatia and Bosnia. There is one
KA village in the municipality Qabra with 1,200 inhabitants. Zubin
Potok had its economic development till 1999. It has resources for
pure drinking water for half of Kosovo population. It has plans for
development of tourism: we have the lake and the mountain Mokra Gora.
There is a hydro station and electric energy is produced in the
municipality. The problems in Zubin Potok are:</div>
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<b>Unemployed young people</b>-key problem of the municipality. We
want Zubuin Potok to get help in opening new jobs.</div>
</li>
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We need<b> a Health House (polyclinic) </b>to improve health care
and for emergency cases of patients, because the hospital in North
Mitrovica is very far.</div>
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Problems with <b>local road infrastructure. </b>There 64 villages in
Zubin Potok in the mountains. Their connection with roads is very
bad. In past years some roads have been damaged by heavy KFOR
vehicles. The state of streets within Zubin Potok is similar and we
need to improve this.</div>
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We need <b>100 accommodations</b> for IDPs and vulnerable families
and individuals.</div>
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</ul>
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<b>Velimir Bojovic , MAP Leposavic. </b>The problems in my
municipality are the same like mentioned by my colleagues. Leposavic
has 20,000 inhabitants. There are 3 Albanian villages, factory for
small metal parts in Lesak, “ Parva petiletka” factory in
Leposavic, and factory “ Hrast”. Trepca is operational only in
Leposavic, where there are two mines. In the past there were several
thousand workers in Trepca, but today only 520. Problems we are
facing in Leposavic:</div>
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Some problems are related to Belgrade’s policy.Raw materials are
imported from Serbia and final products are exported back to Serbia,
so custom duties are paid twice.</div>
</li>
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There are very good resources for cattle breeding, fruit and berry
production, people are interested to work in this field. However,
there is no equipment for storage and also credits with favourable
conditions are needed.</div>
</li>
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There are excellent conditions for tourism. Nothing has been yet
constructed on the southern part of Kopaonik Mountain and there are
200 days of snow there, favourable for winter sports.</div>
</li>
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There is a spa which waters are favourable for skin diseases near
Socanica in the village Kievcice, Elernska reka.</div>
</li>
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Other needs are new schools, kindergarten and sports facilities.
Leposavic has very good achievements in sports and we would like to
provide opportunities for our young generations.</div>
</li>
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We have completed the Strategic development plan for Leposavic- (the
Development Agenda under mitrovica Initiative project).</div>
</li>
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Unemployment levels exceed 3,000. there are experts in all fields.
We need minimum conditions and credits to generate income.
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</li>
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<b>Srbroljub Milenkovic, UAM. </b>He welcomes participants. What are
needed in the north are 200 accommodations and 1,000 jobs. Our share
of municipal capital investment is 10,000 only and we cannot do much
with it. The northern part of Mitrovica comprises 1/5 and there are
approximately 20,000 inhabitants of which 5,000 IDPs from all over
Kosovo. The northern part of Mitrovica is highly multiethnic with
Albanians, Turks, Bosnjaks and Gorani living there. However, all
economy after 1999 has remained in the south. All facilities such as
Cultural centre and sports facilities have been built in the south
and there is nothing in the north. In the same time we need these
strongly. We also need schools, especially secondary, a Trade centre,
green market and kiosk market in order to create favourable
conditions for trade and create new jobs. We cannot do much because
of very limited budget: for capital investments this year we have
only 10 000Euro. These all are important for creating working places.
We have very good experience with EAR which funded 2 million heating
plant located in the north bur providing heating for both parts of
Mitrovica. Under existing financial conditions we even cannot order
technical design of a project. Just imagine we will spend all our
money for design but afterwards fail to generate donors’ support
for its realization.
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<b>Representative of EU </b>informed the meeting that the Union
committed for 2006 10,5 million Euro for Mitrovica and Zvecan and is
prepared to provide 7 million Euro for infrastructure projects in
Kosovo. He advised MAPs to consider best options to join these
projects. However, he reminded that in accordance with EU rules all
proposed projects should contribute to EU integration of Kosovo and
for multiethnic links.
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<b>MAP Zvecan</b> assured that there will be full transparency and
control over donated money. He also stressed that infrastructure
definitely relates to all communities.</div>
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<b>Momir Kasalovic</b>, asked by RR to provide assessment of
political situation, said that there are a lot of concerns on
K-Serbian side. Regarding security (explosions during last four
days), regarding statements about independence of diplomats
representing important countries, regarding lack of returns,
regarding “double standards” applied by IC for different
communities. It is all unacceptable for K-Serbs. However, they are
trying their best to maintain contacts with IC in order to decrease
tension (the last meeting was with Frank Wisner). Especially good
understanding exists on regional level in Mitrovica.</div>
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Gerard Galluccihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15909722623126534873noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9140938493240583164.post-58933096227741207182019-03-13T17:30:00.001-04:002019-03-13T17:30:11.257-04:00Kosovo: November 30, 2007 Meeting of the Task Force on the Mitrovica Area <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<b><span style="color: #0c343d;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">In April 2007, the EU began to ready for assuming its role in a "post-independent" Kosovo and sent its <a href="https://www.eubusiness.com/europe/kosovo/euptk-eu-kosovo/"><i>EU Planning Team </i>(EUPT)</a> to <a href="https://realdiplomacy.blogspot.com/2019/02/kosovo-november-2-2007-meeting-of-task.html">begin coordinating with UNMIK</a> on its plans to take our place. </span></span></b><b><span style="color: #0c343d;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b><span style="color: #0c343d;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Here
follows the minutes of the fifth meeting of the Mitrovica Task Force
to continue EU "coordination" with the United Nations. I don't seem to have any record of follow up meetings, if any occurred. But I do have a copy of the OSCE report (a 62 page document) and it can be found <a href="https://www.osce.org/kosovo/24618">here</a>.</span></span></b></span></span></b><br />
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<b>Minutes of the Task Force on the Mitrovica Area meeting</b></div>
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<b>30 November 2007</b></div>
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<b>Paricipants</b>:
Gallucci, Efimov (both UNMIK), Santillan-Luzuriaga, Butchart
Livingson, Strohal (all OSCE), Stadler, Boura, Battista, Carver (all
ICO PT), Guehenneux, (KFOR), Zuuccarini (EUPT), Thornton (US Office)
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<b>OSCE
Preview of Report on Parallel Structures: </b>observed the
difficulty in obtaining accurate information from such structures.
Noted that approximately 50 individuals serve as “bridge watchers,”
who can be reinforced by another 50-250 people at any time. Also
noted the dilemma of double jeopardy given the parallel courts and
the questionable validity of documents issued by such courts.
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<b>Financial
Flows</b>: UNMIK estimated that 85 million euros in dinars come
across the administrative border from Serbia to finance salaries,
pensions, and parallel institutions in the north. Any clampdown on
transfers would have to cover the entire border, not just the gates.
If the IC were to seize cash transfers, it would have to consider
having a distribution network established to allocate the funds to
legitimate recipients. Otherwise, potential for unrest (fueled by
hard-line propaganda) would increase. Worth exploring a dialogue
with Belgrade on how the boycott of PISG is working.
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<b>Hospital</b>:
Run under Serbia’s Ministry of Health; likely no K/A’s on staff;
has refused funding from Pristina; no formal professional ties with
K/A medical personnel; not secure for K/A’s to travel to hospital
although a few cases of emergency treatment of K/A’s are known;
likewise for IC personnel; IC should consider ensuring that medical
imports from Serbia are exempted from taxes at border.</div>
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<b>University</b>:
New rector told UNMIK he is open to dialogue; rector does not
appear to be working toward accreditation of diplomas; university
budget approx. 12 million euros (no financial links to Pristina);
serves 5,000-8,000 students, including in K/S enclaves south of the
Ibar (many of these students study in the enclaves and travel to
Mitrovica just for exams); university leadership refers to
institution as “University of Pristina in Mitrovica” (consensus
was that this should be acceptable and downplayed as an issue); some
ethnic Albanians from Montenegro enrolled; encourage European
Commission to find ways to link the Mitrovica and Pristina
universities via Brussels (possible if election of rector of
Mitrovica U. meets Bologna standards). OSCE noted that legitimate
election of rector only requirement for accreditation. UNMIK will
raise informally with Mitrovica U. issue of Bosniaks with PISG
diplomas seeking enrollment in Mitrovica U.
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General
Conclusion: Attempts to dismantle parallel institutions in the early
stages of settlement implementation could prove counterproductive.</div>
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Next
meeting: Thursday, 7 December, 11:00 a.m., ICO PT Office, Pristina
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Gerard Galluccihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15909722623126534873noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9140938493240583164.post-35170435588877450182019-03-08T14:11:00.003-05:002019-03-08T14:11:43.878-05:00Kosovo: November 23, 2007 Meeting of the Task Force on the Mitrovica Area<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<b><span style="color: #0c343d;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">In April 2007, the EU began to ready for assuming its role in a "post-independent" Kosovo and sent its <a href="https://www.eubusiness.com/europe/kosovo/euptk-eu-kosovo/"><i>EU Planning Team </i>(EUPT)</a> to <a href="https://realdiplomacy.blogspot.com/2019/02/kosovo-november-2-2007-meeting-of-task.html">begin coordinating with UNMIK</a> on its plans to take our place. </span></span></b><b><span style="color: #0c343d;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b><span style="color: #0c343d;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Here
follows the minutes of the fourth meeting of the Mitrovica Task Force
to continue EU "coordination" with the United Nations. (Note: Compare the comments on the courthouse and parallel institutions to what actually happened after the unilateral declaration of Kosovo independence in 2008. For example, <a href="https://realdiplomacy.blogspot.com/2018/11/kosovo-march-17-2008-coutrthouse-debacle.html">the courthouse debacle</a> and my <a href="https://realdiplomacy.blogspot.com/2018/11/2011-kosovo-time-for-new-approach.html">congressional testimony</a> from 2011.)</span></span></b></span></span></b><b><span style="color: #0c343d;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b><span style="color: #0c343d;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"></span></span></b></span></span></b><br />
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November
23, 2006</div>
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Minutes
of the Task Force on the Mitrovica Area meeting
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Participants:
Gallucci, Efimov (both UNMIK), Chevrir (UNMIK – CIVPOL), Irvine,
Simion (UNMIK - DOJ), Daca, Strohal (both OSCE), Stadler, Boura,
Carver (all ICO PT), Denis, Moerman (KFOR), Svensson, Lukits (both
EUPT)
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TF
reviewed the <b>Mitrovica Court</b> and the <b>Mitrovica Detention
Center.</b> UNMIK noted the repatriation of prisoners agreement
between Serbia and Kosovo and the possibility that Serbia might not
continue implementation of it after status. UNMIK – DOJ noted that
individuals were transferred in armored personnel carriers to the
Detention Center and described times when KFOR had to intercede to
ensure that the vehicle (surrounded by hostile crowd) could proceed.
UNMIK noted ethnic mix of staff and prisoners and that 4 of the 5
“Category A” prisoners were ethnic Albanians. The TF noted no
major ethnicity-related problems among staff members (staff cohesion
remained intact even through March 2004 riots). There are no IC
prison guards. Prison guards (KCS) are unarmed; a Special Police Unit
(SPU) is responsible for perimeter security. KFOR noted its
contingency plan for evacuation of the Detention Center personnel and
prisoners should situation so warrant and said it could develop
similar plans for the Court. They also noted that all the evacuation
plans follow the certain priority listings. EUPT noted it had plans
for internal security of Detention Center. The TF noted that in the
case of the overall K/S boycott of the status settlement, the Serb
members of KCS would follow it. If the Court and Detention Center
remain in the North as mixed institutions, the challenges for
transition would be: security of the facilities and transportation of
the local staff.</div>
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UNMIK
raised a problem of previous lack of 24/7 security at the <b>Mitrovica
Regional</b> <b>Court</b> (serious implications for evidence &
records). Currently private security firm provides night-time
coverage (KPS or other providing day-time coverage). UNMIK noted that
UNMIK Criminal Court has no effective “parallel” rival. Parallel
civil courts, however, continue to exist. IC/PISG may want to review
the salaries policy as a mean of discouraging staff from accepting
salaries from Serbia.
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Discussion
turned to the general issue of <b>parallel structures</b>. UNMIK
noted two scenarios: (1) parallel structures openly declare
themselves Serbian institutions and (2) parallel structures continue
to operate as “open secrets.” In second scenario, best case could
be establishing a dialogue between Pristina and local parallel
structures. If this is not possible, IC should have dialogue with
parallel structures. Establishing contact with these structures’
personnel is critical in eventually obtaining records and convincing
personnel to shift to central institutions.
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ICO
PT reviewed its <b>concept for ICO in Mitrovica (ICOM)</b>, plans for
staffing and monitoring settlement with possible use of corrective
powers. ICO PT emphasized openness to suggestions and criticism and
urged formal and informal dialogue with other IC actors. UNMIK
stressed ICOM’s role as facilitating settlement implementation.
Discussion turned to supporting dialogue between ethnic groups, among
Kosovo Serbs, and between Kosovo Serbs and Belgrade. OSCE noted its
and various NGO outreach plans in this regard.
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TF
agreed to review: (1) Mitrovica Hospital, (2) Mitrovica University,
(3) financial flows, and potentially also the ICO-OSCE cooperation at
its <b>next meeting</b>, Thursday, November 30, at 11:00 a.m. at the
ICO PT office in Pristina. TF also agreed to review infrastructure
(including utilities) and related economic issues at a meeting on
Thursday, December 7, at 11:00 a.m. at the ICO PT office in Pristina.
Specific agendas will be distributed ahead of those meetings.
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Gerard Galluccihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15909722623126534873noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9140938493240583164.post-78192587214402229662019-03-02T14:30:00.000-05:002019-03-02T14:30:38.308-05:00Kosovo: November 16, 2007 Meeting of the Task Force on the Mitrovica Area<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<b><span style="color: #0c343d;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">In April 2007, the EU began to ready for assuming its role in a "post-independent" Kosovo and sent its <a href="https://www.eubusiness.com/europe/kosovo/euptk-eu-kosovo/"><i>EU Planning Team </i>(EUPT)</a> to <a href="https://realdiplomacy.blogspot.com/2019/02/kosovo-november-2-2007-meeting-of-task.html">begin coordinating with UNMIK</a> on its plans to take our place. </span></span></b><b><span style="color: #0c343d;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b><span style="color: #0c343d;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Here
follows the minutes of the third meeting of the Mitrovica Task Force
to continue EU "coordination" with the United Nations. (Note: HPD </span></span></b></span></span></b><b><span style="color: #0c343d;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b><span style="color: #0c343d;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span class="fonteNews">refers to the Housing and Property Directorate</span> and handled <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kosovo_Property_Agency">KPA</a> issues in Mitrovica.</span></span></b></span></span></b><b><span style="color: #0c343d;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b><span style="color: #0c343d;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">)</span></span></b></span></span></b><br />
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November 16, 2006</div>
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<u><b>Minutes of the Task Force on the Mitrovica Area meeting (3)</b></u></div>
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Participants:
Gallucci, Efimov (both UNMIK), Butchart Livingston (OSCE), Boura,
Carver, Stadler (all ICO PT), Zuccarini (EUPT), Guehenneux, Denis
(KFOR), Urny (UN Police)</div>
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Guests:
Nunan (HPD Mitrovica), Rolando (DOJ), Oliver (UNMIK)</div>
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UNMIK
noted the large potential problem of 6 – 7.000 K/A wanting/trying
to return to N. Mitrovica and also assessed that there will be likely
about 2.000 K/A living in the north once the settlement, with
potential adjustments of municipal boundaries, is implemented. A very
close link to the property issue was noted. Several participants
stressed that K/S living in the north would conversely not
return/move to the south after settlement implementation.
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KPA
outlined the Administration and Repossession property programs. So
far, there have been 1250 claims by K/A for their properties in the
north, whereas one fifth of those are destroyed houses. KPA stressed
that its policy is to avoid evicting IDPs and ensuring that no one is
rendered homeless as a result of eviction. The CCK agreed to
evictions as long as people were not put out on the streets.</div>
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UNMIK
and KPA emphasized that the stock of housing is not sustainable given
the demand for repossession, particularly in light of further sales
of property ethnic Albanians claim. High prices (under market
conditions) of such properties were noted. A few ways of helping
prevent this phenomenon from becoming a major problem are: (1) to
promote a few returns of ethnic Albanians to the north (ex. Doctors’
Valley); (2) to create a plan for gradual addressing this issue over
time (1 year and beyond); and (3) to fund an international housing
agency/program from the donors’ conference to help provide
additional housing. All those should be accompanied with effective
dialogue and explanations to both sides: K/A and K/S. CCK’s efforts
to add to the housing stock should not be prevented. KPA also
outlined its rental and social housing scheme, noting that rents for
properties in northern Mitrovica were necessarily below market value
and should remain so in any similar future program. Security
assurances, linked to the repossession of property and potential
returns, should be addressed accordingly.
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Participants
noted the need to address housing for the Roma community. While UNDP
is to cover the Roma Mahala project (in cooperation with the
municipality), the Osterode camp, currently managed by UNMIK DCA,
will need to be taken over (future local municipality issue?, with
ensured funding?).
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Participants
noted problems with cadastral records and the insufficient capacity
to adjudicate property claims.</div>
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There
has been no privatization in the North, where the Trepca complex
remains the main issue. UNMIK, as the protector of Trepca against
creditors, turned reluctant to prolong such approach which causes
unrest among K/A and K/S. Participants noted the lack of clarity
regarding ownership, PISG’s determination to decide about the
administration of the complex and whether Trepca would be liquidated
(Supreme Court to handle the case!).
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Related
issues that will need to be addressed (preferably by the Kosovo
Government) include:
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<ul>
<li>
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Pensions for Trepca workers – who pays them (PISG, CCK?),
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necessity of maintaining the pension and salary system,</div>
</li>
<li>
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dealing with the claims for unpaid salaries / pensions (cca. 18.000
claims at municipal courts),</div>
</li>
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Similar complaints from elsewhere, f. ex. dismissed workers in
Obiliq/c,</div>
</li>
<li>
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Discriminatory provisions for participation in privatization for K/S
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TF will meet November 23 at 11:00 a.m. at the ICO PT Office in
Pristina* to discuss (1) Penal Management in the north; (2) the ICO
PT’s concept of the ICO and its mission in the region, including
regarding (a) the functioning of municipalities and (b) Issues that
the Joint Board could address, inter alia, to foster inter-ethnic
cooperation.
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<b><span style="color: #0c343d;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In April 2007, the EU began to ready for assuming its role in a "post-independent" Kosovo and sent its <a href="https://www.eubusiness.com/europe/kosovo/euptk-eu-kosovo/"><i>EU Planning Team </i>(EUPT)</a> to <a href="https://realdiplomacy.blogspot.com/2019/02/kosovo-november-2-2007-meeting-of-task.html">begin coordinating with UNMIK</a> on its plans to take our place. </span></span></b><b><span style="color: #0c343d;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b><span style="color: #0c343d;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Here follows the minutes of the second meeting of the Mitrovica Task Force to continue EU "coordination" with the United Nations. (Note: CRC refers to Crowd & Riot Control. I believe ESDP may refer to </span></span></b></span></span></b><b><span style="color: #0c343d;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b><span style="color: #0c343d;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">European Security and Defence Policy operations.)</span></span></b></span></span></b><br />
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Participants:
Gallucci, Efimov (both UNMIK), Butchart Livingston (OSCE), Carver,
Stadler (both ICO PT), Zuccarini (EUPT), Guehenneux, Denis (KFOR),
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Moskowitz, Ciaravolo, Rolando (DOJ), Neisse (ICO PT), ??? (US office)</div>
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1) CRC
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EUPT
informed about tasking to engage also in the CRC planning, while
noting that in the overall concept of the future mission the primary
responsibility lies with the local authorities, i. e. KPS for the
police. Some argued that ESDP needs its own CRC; if not, KFOR needs
to stay on the bridge, sending a wrong message contrary to the policy
of “towards normalization”. The TF agreed that divided Mitrovica
poses a special challenge and therefore identified a need of a
standing element to be able to respond to any deterioration of the
security situation. A possibility of non-implementation of the status
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general, chain of response is: KPS – IC-police – KFOR. Taking
into account the specific situation in Mitrovica, where divisions
occur also in KPS, the TF thought that IC-police should remain to
stand ready, with KFOR ultimate back-up when necessary / opportune.
ICOM’s security should therefore rely on the IC engagement.</div>
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Coordination
of the IC actors should work through LOs to ICOM. Concerning CRC,
there was thinking that the Unit should be led by an IC-commander,
with direct links to KPS, to HoICOM and to ICO HQ in Pristina.</div>
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2) The Administrative Border with Serbia</div>
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The
TF reviewed the current model, where KFOR provides security in the
northern Kosovo, but does not directly operate on the boundary. It
was noted that it is important that KFOR maintains its presence in
the Nothing Hill base and continues with the current approach –
also in a support to the future ESDP mission. EUPT foresees permanent
presence of the ESDP mission on the gates 1 and 31, while noting that
with the new UNSC Resolution KPS will be allowed to engage on the
boundary / border with Serbia. Additionally, they plan for mobile
teams covering the rest of the area.
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TF anticipated potential increase of a security risk (as Ad 1). To
prevent any adverse incidents, a very determined and clear mechanism
will be needed for a hand-over from UNMIK Police to the ESDP mission.
A need for a firm mandate was also raised, as the only approach to
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majority voiced the preference of no (visible) changes of the IC
police deployment and engagement in the area, pointing out a need for
fixed locations / check points of the ESDP mission on potentially
critical locations (bridges, Three Towers, Bosniak Mahala).</div>
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informed that no changes in deployment are envisaged for a period of
6 months after the status settlement.
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EUPT
briefed on the planning process, pointing out limited retention of
executive powers for police and justice. The TF identified some
particular problems for Mitrovica: location of the higher-level court
(secure access, security in the court), property claims, the issue of
personal documents and the parallel structures. The TF supported that
vetting process should be completed before ESDP takes over.</div>
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6) What should be role of the KPS?</div>
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Mitrovica, KPS performs only basic police tasks, but not the
“ethnicity”-related ones. It was noted that the northern KPS has
no capacities for sensitive or more sophisticated jobs, such as
forensics, crime-investigation, etc (conversely, parallel structures
do). KPS of other ethnicity therefore needs special protection if
their job takes place in the North.
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Additionally,
a problem of potential non-cooperation of the northern KPS was raised
upon the status announcement (change of uniforms, not following the
orders). The TF supported that the issue should be raised with
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7) How to address information-sharing?
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TF agreed that there is a need for permanent mechanisms among the IC
players, sensitive / confidential info included. Information flow can
be channeled through: LOs to ICOM, permanent dialogue on different
levels and adequate reporting.</div>
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8) Any coordinated public outreach (is there a PISG plan)?
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TF agreed there is a need to demonstrate coordinated international
posture during transition and after status. It should be two-fold:
1.) informing officials (on status implementation) and 2.) campaign
for people (need to ensure translations of the status settlement
proposal with “frequently asked questions” as soon as the status
settlement document becomes public).</div>
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sees their role of “eyes and ears” of the ICO in the field all
over Kosovo, including reporting on the status implementation.
Although it can be assumed that general reporting can be shared and
the focus of it determined locally (i. e. by actors in Pristina), the
TF supported a more formal arrangement on the issue. Modalities
should be discussed asap on the level of HoMs in Pristina first,
followed by talks with OSCE in Vienna.
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UNSCR 1244 in place, there is the existing UN evacuation plan (with
KFOR support if needed so) for all IC players. It was noted that
there is no support to local staff (remark: sensitive issue in the
case of Mitrovica!).</div>
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11) What is status of transition plans for above areas?
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PISG and IC consult and plan for the transition and following status
implementation for the whole Kosovo, particular plans for the North
do not exist. As a particular point in this context, DOJ raised the
issue of transition of the on-going trials (question of keeping the
composition of same panels).</div>
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12) The next TF meeting will take place on November 16 at 11:00 a.m.,
UNMIK Regional HQ in southern Mitrovica (3<sup>rd</sup> floor).
Topical focus: returns, property and Trepca privatization.</div>
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<b><span style="color: #0c343d;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In April 2007, the EU began to ready for assuming its role in a "post-independent" Kosovo and sent its <a href="https://www.eubusiness.com/europe/kosovo/euptk-eu-kosovo/"><i>EU Planning Team </i>(EUPT)</a> to begin coordinating with UNMIK on its plans to take our place. In UNMIK Mitrovica's first meetings with the EUPT in Pristina, it was clear that the the EU people believed they were the knights on white horses sent to clean up the mess left by the UN. They were not much interested in our views and wanted from us only what was necessary to leave the stage for them. Things didn't work out that way and as of February 2019, both UNMIK and the EU are still there. Indeed, it was only years later that the EU was allowed to place staff (<a href="http://www.transconflict.com/2011/09/kosovo-kfor-eulex-violence-and-a-cover-up-289/">other than police</a>) in the north. Here follows the minutes of the first meeting of the Mitrovica Task Force formed to start planning for the establishment of the EU''s International
Civilian Office (ICO) that they saw becoming the new boss in Mitrovica. They proved to be clueless. (Two more meetings were held and those minutes will follow.)</span></span></b></div>
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2) The Task Force (TF) agreed on its main goals: to identify and
analyze key issues in the region that needed international attention
regarding the transition and status periods, and to present
policy-makers with options (“TO DO” list) for addressing those
issues, namely in 3 areas: 1. list of potential breaches of the
status settlement (i. e. parallel structures), 2. list of priorities
of implementation of the settlement in the North and 3. tool-box to
enforce the implementation (sticks and carrots).
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3) The TF identified and reviewed advantages and disadvantages to
locating the International Civilian Office - Mitrovica (ICOM) on
either side of the Ibar. Several participants noted the need for
access and the value of exposing the two major ethnic groups to each
other, which could be more easily achieved by an office in southern
Mitrovica. Some participants voiced concern that locating an office
in northern Mitrovica could be interpreted as endorsing a partition
of Kosovo. Others thought that an office in the northern part sends
more proper political message, since the ICOM’s target population
would mostly be K/S. The TF agreed that it is difficult to judge the
physical security advantages of either location without knowing what
the security environment will be under status. It was noted that good
coordination with EUPT will be needed when deciding on the physical
location of ICOM to plan and deploy ESDP component accordingly.</div>
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4) The TF reviewed possible numbers of ICOM staff members and
discussed the option of maintaining ICO personnel in each of the
northern municipalities. TF members observed that such a presence
could provide the ICO more and better opportunities to intervene in
status implementation issues; besides it would actually offer direct
help and guidance to K/S locally. Such an ICO presence could also
reassure Albanian minorities in those municipalities as well as
demonstrate that the ICO would not allow partition of the north from
the rest of Kosovo. TF agreed that ICOM would be the only
communication link between Pristina and the North. Some participants
noted the double standard of maintaining a presence in the northern
municipalities while not doing so in the southern ones. The majority
of participants supported the option of co-locating one ICO advisor
in the OSCE field office in each of the municipalities at least part
of every work day with the ICO branch office located in northern
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5) The TF identified several issues for possible review in future
meetings (ranking below does not necessarily correspond to accurate
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Gerard Galluccihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15909722623126534873noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9140938493240583164.post-80228499833259116952019-02-06T10:30:00.002-05:002019-02-06T10:38:09.432-05:00Kosovo: August 2005 Briefing on Trepča<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<b><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #274e13;">The memo on the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trep%C4%8Da_Mines">Trepča issue</a> that follows was prepared for me after my July 2005 arrival in Mitrovica as UNMIK Regional Representive. (Trepča was under UNMIK management.) During my time in Mitrovica, I paid special attention to the various economic issues, which in many cases were in contention between Serbia and K-Serbs on one side and the K-Albanians and the internationals supporting them on the other. These included Trepča -- which had facilities and workers on both sides of the ethnic divide -- as well as electricity production and delivery (<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electrical_energy_in_Kosovo">KEK</a> and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kosovo_B_Power_Station">Obilić</a>), water (<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gazivoda_Dam">Gazivoda</a>), telecoms and ownership of Serbian owned entities such as JugoPetrol. I believed that a final political settlement -- difficult in any case -- could be facilitated by reaching fair agreements on economic matters giving both sides an incentive to make the agreement work. Thus I encouraged Special Status Envoy Ahtisaari to address these matters in his <a href="http://www.transconflict.com/approach/think/policy/ahtisaari-plan-north-kosovo/">final status proposal</a> but he decided against apparently under pressure from the pro-Albanian internationals and especially the US. I believe Trepča status is still unsettled. </span></span></b><br />
<br />
<b>Trepca Mining
Complex</b><br />
<div class="western" lang="en-GB">
Briefing Notes for new Mitrovica
Regional Representative</div>
<div class="western" lang="en-GB" style="font-variant: small-caps; page-break-after: avoid;">
<b>What was/is Trepca.</b></div>
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Trepca was a massive and diverse base
metal mining conglomerate operating throughout the former Yugoslavia
with its principle assets and activities based in Kosovo, managed
from offices in Mitrovica, Zvecan. With operations commencing in the
mid 1920’s by a British company, at its peak in the early 80’s,
the now state owned business employed over 20,000 workers. With three
primary lead and zinc mining centres in Kosovo situated in Leposavic
in the north, Mitrovica and Kisnica in the south and metal refining
operations in Mitrovica, its operations touched all of the Kosovo
population.</div>
<div class="western" lang="en-GB">
Following the conflict years and
NATO’s arrival, all operations ceased. However, some 2,000 workers
come to work each day and a further 2,500 ex-workers receive a
monthly stipend, all paid for from the Kosovo Consolidated Budget.
The company is now overseen by a small team of international mining
engineers and experts, employed by UNMIK through KTA.
</div>
<div class="western" lang="en-GB" style="font-variant: small-caps; page-break-after: avoid;">
<b>The Trepca Vision Statement</b></div>
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The under explored Trepca Minerals
Belt provides a very good potential for finding additional ore
resources at and in the vicinity of the existing mines which offers
excellent opportunities for a vital, active and viable base metal
(lead and zinc) mining company which would provide an estimated 2000
real, direct jobs. Indirectly, according to the experience of the
Worldbank, another 4000 jobs will be created in the supply and
service sector.</div>
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Metallurgical activities, associated
with and peripheral to the former primary lead and zinc metal
production facilities, form the basis for an industrial company
serving industrial and environmental businesses in the Balkans.</div>
<div class="western" lang="en-GB" style="font-variant: small-caps; page-break-after: avoid;">
<b>Strategy</b></div>
<div class="western" lang="en-GB">
“Develop and bring into operation
promising business units with the limited funds available over the
next two to three years. This will enable Trepca management to
explore markets, test competitiveness and gradually establish viable
businesses. This strategy will determine the viability of each
project and lead to the creation of real jobs. Incompetent,
uncompetitive companies will have to close. The development of
businesses and successful companies will be attractive for investors.
This will enhance privatisation opportunities.”</div>
<div class="western" lang="en-GB">
The several recent international
expert reviews have confirmed the existence of promising business
units within the Trepca complex. The Trepca strategy has therefore
found wide support. Generally it is seen to be the only realistic and
pragmatic option left which relates to the specifics of Trepca’s
position in respect to its geographic location, the current
political, social and economic environment, the restructuring and
privatization objectives of KTA, the technical status of its plant,
equipment and mines, the qualification of its workforce, the
expectations of ex-workers and society and, last not least, the lack
of funds.</div>
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<b>A summary of the Trepca Strategy and current status</b></div>
<ol>
<li>
<div class="western" lang="en-GB">
<i><b>Core business-mining.
Funded through the Kosovo Consolidated Budget and funds from the
EAR.</b></i></div>
</li>
</ol>
<div class="western" lang="en-GB">
The strategy is unchanged, four mines
and concentrators at all 3 mining centres are now ready to start
production. Explosives have just been delivered and blasting will
commence shortly building up gradually towards target production
levels towards the end of the year.</div>
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Yet again Trepca suffered severe
delays in 2005, partly due to regulatory requirements with respect to
the storage and use of explosives and partly due to funding
constraints. A request was made for a budget of € 11.1 million only
€ 8.1 million was approved, in addition a requested carry forward
of Capital from 2004 was not given even though verbal approval had
been given this caused Trepca to change plans and refurbish existing
equipment which will be less productive and less reliable than the
new equipment that had been planned. Trepca still does not have
sufficient funds to implement the approved plans and this has been
aggravated by delays in start up which means a delay in receipt of
revenue.</div>
<ol start="2">
<li>
<div class="western" lang="en-GB">
<i><b>Other business. Funded
by Trepca Own Funds.</b></i></div>
</li>
</ol>
<div class="western" lang="en-GB">
Through funding realized from the
sale of existing semi products, wastes and scrap, Trepca has some
limited funds of its own. These it is directing into investment in
the plant with Action Plans now approved for reactivation of several
industrial production units, such as Aluminium Sulphate manufacture
at MIP, S. Mitrovica; Battery Recycling at Zvecan ; production of
Zinc and Zinc Oxide powder at MIP; Starter Battery manufacture at
MIP; Trailer factory; Custom Terminal. The Trailer Factory is already
operational as is the Customs Terminal. Limited Aluminium Sulphate
production has already commenced against contracts for supply in
Kosovo. Investment commenced in the Battery Recycling Plant at the
end of 2004 and the plant is due to commence production 1<sup>st</sup>
September 2005. The sourcing of sufficient used batteries is as
expected causing some problems. The rehabilitation of the Zinc
Dust/Oxide Plant commenced in April 2005 and is ahead of schedule.
However a funding shortfall may prevent completion this year.</div>
<ol start="3">
<li>
<div class="western" lang="en-GB">
<i><b>Environmental
Remediation. Funded by Donor Agencies.</b></i></div>
</li>
</ol>
<div class="western" lang="en-GB">
Many programs have been completed
over the past two years All these funded by individual mission
donations including the Dutch Government, DANIDA and SIDA. Trepca is
currently negotiating a further donation from the Dutch Government
that will, if granted, fund the rehabilitation of Gornje Polje
Tailings Dam, Leposavic Tailings Dam, MIP tailings dams and several
other projects. The EAR are also examining how to best spend some €10
million during 2006-7 to assist job creation in Mitrovica/Zvecan,
some of these funds may be made available to assist Trepca.</div>
<div class="western" lang="en-GB" style="font-variant: small-caps; page-break-after: avoid;">
<b>Significant Issues </b>
</div>
<ol>
<li>
<div class="western" lang="en-GB">
<i><b>Trepca is being pursued
by Creditor Claimants</b></i></div>
</li>
</ol>
<div class="western" lang="en-GB">
A number of very aggressive creditor
claims are being pursued through the courts (Special Chamber of the
Supreme Court). In total the creditor claims for Trepca are believed
to amount to over € 200 million and there may be over two thousand
claims. As Trepca’s assets are believed to be worth less than €85
million, Trepca is (like many SOEs) insolvent.
</div>
<div class="western" lang="en-GB">
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<br /></div>
<div class="western" lang="en-GB">
We are concerned that the claims
against Trepca should be dealt with in accordance with international
insolvency laws. There are three critical creditor claims which are
near judgment stage in the Special Chamber. To address the concern
that these will be executed soon against Trepca’s assets – by way
of seizure of assets, the SRSG signed an Administrative
Direction on 2nd June that stops the execution of all claims for
<i><b>three months</b></i> whilst a new Bankruptcy and Administration
Law is finalized and promulgated. This gives temporary protection to
Trepca but the company must be placed in Administration immediately
it becomes possible. A successful Administration process is not
possible without the co-operation of the Serbs in Zvecan and this
will not be gained without at least the tacit consent but ideally the
full approval of the Serbian Government. Funding for the
Administrator will be required at least in the short term until the
sale of assets can generate sufficient funds to pay the Administrator</div>
<ol start="2">
<li>
<div class="western" lang="en-GB">
<i><b>Trepca must obtain
longer term budgeting commitment.</b></i></div>
</li>
</ol>
<div class="western" lang="en-GB">
The short-term and piecemeal funding
is unacceptable for a business that MUST plan ahead for several
years. Yet again insufficient funds were provided and even these were
late. This caused programme delays.</div>
<ol start="3">
<li>
<div class="western" lang="en-GB">
<i><b>The redundancy of
employees past and present has to be resolved.</b></i></div>
</li>
</ol>
<div class="western" lang="en-GB">
For 5 years, Trepca has been forced
to manage an unpaid workforce of almost 5,000 solely to assure the
ongoing social peace and which continues to expect employment and
salaries but which is totally unrelated to Trepca’s present or
future needs. This is a social issue for Kosovo and has nothing to do
with the new Trepca. This issue continues to be a problem.</div>
<ol start="4">
<li>
<div class="western" lang="en-GB">
<i><b>Trepca must receive a
business and VAT registration and move towards privatization.</b></i></div>
</li>
</ol>
<div class="western" lang="en-GB">
Trepca is now registered as an SOE
but has still not been able to register for VAT The lack of
definition of the business position of Trepca continues to frustrate
all efforts to establish a long-term, viable company, which can be
successful in the international business world.</div>
<div class="western" lang="en-GB">
We cannot run a business unless we
ARE a business.</div>
<div class="western" lang="en-GB" style="font-variant: small-caps; page-break-after: avoid;">
<b>Obstacles and Difficulties</b></div>
<ul>
<li>
<div class="western" lang="en-GB">
The overriding parameter for a
successful new start of some of Trepca’s previous activities is
the political will to do so. This will has been lacking or at best
not focused and that affects all tasks that management is faced
with.</div>
</li>
<li>
<div class="western" lang="en-GB">
There is has been no policy on
Trepca, therefore the management has had to coordinate on a daily
basis, project by project, with UNMIK, KTA, MFE, Government, KFOR
and Trade Unions. Coordination work takes time and as time goes by,
decision makers change and the management starts all over again.
Some progress has been made in unifying policy but there is still
incomplete agreement between UNMIK and PISG on the way forward.</div>
</li>
<li>
<div class="western" lang="en-GB">
There is no secured financing.
The lack of an industrial policy requires the management to present
its plans on numerous occasions as if a brand new story has to be
told. The different sources of funds (KCB, Donors) appear to be
uninterested of each other yet harmonization of these funds is a
critical task. Offers of funding are made then withdrawn or delayed
this makes planning of programmes impossible.</div>
</li>
<li>
<div class="western" lang="en-GB">
The administrative procedures
required by the procurement law are bureaucratic, inefficient and
not suitable to running a company. This resulted in 6 months delay
in expending capital in 2004 and then loss of funds and cancellation
of contracts these lead to loss of credibility and a recirculating
work.
</div>
</li>
<li>
<div class="western" lang="en-GB">
There exists a large number of
unqualified, over aged and physically unfit workers, who in many
cases lack experience, skills and competence whilst we have put most
of these on early retirement, a permanent solution remains a
problem.
</div>
</li>
</ul>
<div class="western" lang="en-GB" style="font-variant: small-caps; page-break-after: avoid;">
<b>Summary </b>
</div>
<ol>
<li>
<div class="western" lang="en-GB">
Trepca management has plans to
re-start production in the mines in the third quarter of 2005. The
production will be limited, traditional operating practices will be
applied and modern safety management systems shall be implemented.
The timetable for the implementation of the program is subject to
many factors outside the control of the management.</div>
</li>
<li>
<div class="western" lang="en-GB">
The pursuit of creditor claims
in the courts will stop all activities unless the protection
currently afforded by the AD signed by the SRSG on 2<sup>nd</sup>
June remains in force until there is a new law on Administration and
Bankruptcy <u>and</u> the company has been placed into
Administration. The Administrator once appointed will be responsible
for selling all the Trepca assets.</div>
</li>
<li>
<div class="western" lang="en-GB">
Getting Trepca into the
private sector is considered vital to the establishment of any long
term viable business since all the businesses need investment in
both their physical assets and their human resources.
Sale/privatisation is more likely to be successful if the initial
viability of selected business units can be demonstrated; thus the
strategy of Trepca’s management.</div>
</li>
<li>
<div class="western" lang="en-GB">
Trepca management believes in
the excellent mining potential of the “Trepca Minerals Belt”.
All efforts in re-starting mine production are also geared at
substantiating this perspective which will increase the
attractiveness for international investors. A special fund for an
exploration drilling program and regional geological investigations
would very much support this concept. Funds for this were cancelled
by the MFE at the end of 2004.</div>
</li>
<li>
<div class="western" lang="en-GB">
Rehabilitation work on
environmental hazards must continue which requires the allocation of
funds.</div>
</li>
<li>
<div class="western" lang="en-GB">
Certain metallurgical business
units are identified as potentially viable and these will be brought
into production as funds become available. These units, which appear
to be competitive, will have to establish themselves in a market
environment with a distinctive entrepreneurial drive.</div>
</li>
<li>
<div class="western" lang="en-GB">
Last and certainly not least,
the operational and managerial capabilities in combination with
safety attitudes and knowledge of everyone, be it operators,
engineers and managers, Albanians or Serbs, have to be much
enhanced. This requires several years of on the job training ideally
through qualified contractors.</div>
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Gerard Galluccihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15909722623126534873noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9140938493240583164.post-24720934960149076832019-01-30T11:24:00.000-05:002019-01-30T11:24:18.024-05:00Kosovo: SRSG’s meeting with the MAPs of Northern Municipalities on December 7, 2006* <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<br />
<h1 class="western">
Memorandum of Conversation</h1>
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<br /></div>
<div align="center" class="western" style="line-height: 100%;">
<span style="font-size: medium;"><u><b>Internal
Memorandum</b></u></span></div>
<div align="left" class="western" style="line-height: 100%;">
<br /></div>
<div align="justify" class="western" style="line-height: 0.17in;">
Subject:
SRSG’s meeting with the MAPs of Northern Municipalities
</div>
<div align="left" class="western" style="line-height: 100%;">
Date: 7
December 2006</div>
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Venue: Zvečan/Zvecan
Municipality</div>
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<br /></div>
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<br /></div>
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<b>Municipal
Assembly Presidents:</b></div>
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Mr. Dragisa
Milovic (DM) – Municipal Assembly President of Zvečan/<span style="color: black;"><span lang="en-GB">Zvecan;
Mr. Slavisa Ristic (SR) - </span></span>Municipal Assembly President
of <span style="color: black;"><span lang="en-GB">Zubin Potok/Zubin Potok;
Mr. Velimir Bojovic (VB) - </span></span>Municipal Assembly President
of <span style="color: black;"><span lang="en-GB"> Leposavic/Leposaviq</span></span>.</div>
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<br /></div>
<div align="left" class="western" style="line-height: 100%;">
<span style="color: black;"><b>UNMIK</b></span><b>
participants: </b>
</div>
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Mr. Joachim
Ruecker<span style="color: black;"><span lang="en-GB">, </span></span><span style="color: black;">Mr.
Gerard Gallucci, Mr. Dennis Besedic, Ms. </span><span style="color: black;"><span lang="en-GB">Myriam
Dessables, Mr. Juozas Kazlas, Mr. Andrei Efimov, Mr. Jean-Luc Sintes,
Ms. Lilia Galieva, Mr. Kerim Bardad-Daidj.</span></span></div>
<div align="left" class="western" lang="en-GB" style="line-height: 100%;">
<br /></div>
<div align="left" class="western" style="line-height: 100%;">
<span lang="en-GB"><u>DM
</u></span>welcomed the SRSG and introduced his colleagues.</div>
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<br /></div>
<div align="left" class="western" style="line-height: 100%;">
<u>SRSG</u>
expressed appreciation of this opportunity to discuss some practical
issues with the presidents for the first time since he assumed his
current post. He acknowledged a significant number of visitors to the
north recently, including SE and representatives of CG and assessed
this as a positive development. SRSG then gave a briefing regarding
the status process. He explained that UNMIK does not have a direct
role in the process but rather acts as facilitator and “voice from
the ground” for UNOSEK. He mentioned that he will deliver his next
report on Standards Implementation to New York on 13 December. It can
be expected that the SE will present status package right after
elections in Serbia. Regarding elections UNMIK - like in the past -
will neither support nor hinder relevant activities in Kosovo while
ensuring FOM, safe and secure environment as it does in any other
period of time. As soon as the package is tabled, consultations are
envisioned in Belgrade and Pristina followed by presentation of the
package in New York. Timely conclusion of the process is expected.
The period between the Resolution and “the Status Day” will be
transition from UNMIK to a follow-on International Civilian Office
which should be well prepared. It can take three-six months. The
substantial part of the status package will include decentralization,
establishment of new municipalities, protection of cultural sites and
minorities, especially of their vital rights. UNMIK can be engaged in
explaining these things, particularly the importance of
decentralization, which is not yet understood everywhere. The SRSG’s
experience as a mayor in Germany showed that decentralization will
mean strengthening of local self-government, but also strengthening
the cohesion of Kosovo. It will include establishment of new
municipalities. The latest Pristina proposal stipulates that up to
90% of K-Serbs will live in predominantly Serbian municipalities in
southern and northern Kosovo. It seems that IC accepted “asymmetric”
competences, which will be exercised more by K-S municipalities. IC’s
intention is to make K-Serbs largely self-governed within Kosovo and
managing its everyday life as well as its heritage.
</div>
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<br /></div>
<div align="left" class="western" style="line-height: 100%;">
Speaking
about practical issues <u>SRSG</u> mentioned that UNMIK had been
trying to engage IC more in the northern municipalities, to bring
donors to the north. The estimated amount of recent IC funding is
about 1.5 million Euros. It could be even more if not for
non-acceptance of funding from PISG valued roughly at two million
Euros in wages and salaries for healthcare and education, QIPs and
some other KCB budget lines. SRSG encouraged the presidents to
reconsider this stance because that money belongs to Serbian
community. He stressed importance of participation of northern
municipalities in 2007 budget process.
</div>
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<br /></div>
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<u>SRSG</u>
also touched upon the issue of returns. He emphasized the imminent
completion of reconstruction in Svinjare and the need not to leave
the new houses uninhabited during winter.
</div>
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<u>DM</u>
started from the last topic. He <span style="color: black;"><span lang="en-GB">emphasized
that the problem of returns exists not only for K-Serb IDPs from
Svinjare but also from Obilic, and not only from 2004 but also from
1999. The PISG and the International Community failed to facilitate
returns of both. He opined that this situation should be objectively
reported in the upcoming UNMIK Standards Report. He also stressed the
very difficult situation with regard to those IDPs located in the two
unfinished buildings in Zvecan and hoped that the SRSG could help in
this regard. </span></span><span style="color: black;"><span lang="en-GB"><u>DM</u></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span lang="en-GB">
mentioned that at the same time there are some returns of K-Albanian
to their reconstructed houses in the municipality.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span lang="en-GB"><u>DM</u></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span lang="en-GB">
fully shared SRSG’s opinion regarding importance of
decentralization, especially of strengthened local self-governance. </span></span>
</div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span lang="en-GB">With
regard to the municipal funding, </span></span><span style="color: black;"><span lang="en-GB"><u>DM
</u></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span lang="en-GB">stressed
that despite the fact that part of the budget for 2006 was not spent
due to boycott of PISG institutions, this money belongs to the
Municipality as it comes from tax collection and border taxation.
Furthermore, the northern MAPs have proposed a solution that could be
acceptable for both sides and that is to deposit the money in special
alternative municipal bank accounts, but UNMIK did not accept this
option, though it worked well for EAR, USAID and “Mercy Corp”.</span></span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span lang="en-GB"><u>DM
</u></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span lang="en-GB">added that
the only acceptable solution for Serbs with regard to Kosovo Status
is a one of compromise between Pristina and Belgrade and that he
disagrees with the statement made by the SE that a negotiated
solution is not possible between the two parties. Any imposed
solution would be unacceptable for K-Serbs, and negotiations should
continue. The SCR should embrace basic principles of SCR 1244.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span lang="en-GB"><u>DM</u></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span lang="en-GB">
thanked the SRSG for his time and his visit and expressed wish to
have more of these meetings in the future.</span></span></div>
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<div align="left" class="western" style="line-height: 100%;">
<u>SR,</u>
while supporting main points made by the Zvecan MAP, expressed
concern that not only UNMIK is not playing role in status process but
also IC is not effectively involved. He opined that the entire
process is left to the SE who seems not to be interested in finding
of negotiated solution. Both K-Serbs and K-Albanians depend on the
substance of the status package and it should not be in hands of one
individual. It is rather a paradoxical situation: for many years
Serbs have been pressured to participate in dialogue and criticized
for lack of enthusiasm in this regard, and now they are told that a
solution cannot be found through dialogue.</div>
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<div align="left" class="western" style="line-height: 100%;">
<u>SR</u>
pointed out importance of economic decentralization. He cited one
example – numerous times explained to previous SRSGs - how Zubin
Potok had been economically exploited and discriminated.<span style="color: black;"><span lang="en-GB">
As we first reported in 2005, the local Serbs believe that company
"Ibar Lepenac"-- based in Pristina and made up of
K-Albanians -- wrongly claims to represent the Ibar Company which
actually runs the Gazivode Dam and Hydro plant in Zubin Potok. “Ibar
Lepenac” is nothing more that a group of former Ibar employees who
misrepresented themselves as the proper management of Ibar in order
to collect the 10 million euros a year in payments for the water and
power from Gazivode. In return, the people who actually run the Dam
get nothing other than funds for 40 of the 200 people who work for
Ibar in the north. SR suggested that “Ibar Lepenac” should be
moved to Zubin Potok, where it can manage the supply and distribution
network for both sides of the River. </span></span><span style="color: black;"><span lang="en-GB"><u>SR</u></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span lang="en-GB">
noted that the Serbs had never thought of stopping the water flow
into the south, though they were sure the Albanians would have done
it if the situation were vice-versa.</span></span></div>
<div align="left" class="western" lang="en-GB" style="line-height: 100%;">
<br /></div>
<div align="left" class="western" style="line-height: 100%;">
<u>VB</u>
noted that they had a number of meetings with the internationals,
where they presented their problems and their solutions for those
problems. However, the results were not tangible. He reiterated that
the IC had stated that first standards should be reached in order to
get the status. From all the standards, only the standard which
concerns creating of the KPC was achieved. The rest of the standards,
such as Freedom of Movement, Returns etc. have not been fulfilled.
</div>
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<br /></div>
<div align="left" class="western" style="line-height: 100%;">
Referring
to SRSG statement that he would present his report on Kosovo to SC on
13 December, <u>VB</u> pleaded that he present a real picture of
Kosovo. He gave an example of a recent celebration of Flag Day by
Albanians in the South of Kosovo and in Serbia (Bujanovac), where
Serb flag was replaced by Albanian flag.
</div>
<div align="left" class="western" style="line-height: 100%;">
<br /></div>
<div align="left" class="western" style="line-height: 100%;">
Regarding
the influx of international funding to the North, <u>VB</u> stated
that it was true that there had been an increase of funding to the
North from IC; however, if it was compared to the funding in the
South during the last seven years, the proportion was negligible.
</div>
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As an
example of skewed investments toward Albanian citizens, he presented
a case of a return project in three Albanian villages in Leposavic
Municipality (so called KBC villages). <u>VB</u> said that according
to one Albanian from those villages, some beneficiaries were not real
owners of the houses. They left the village after the war, because
they had killed some forest man in that area, but now they got the
houses as returnees. Also the infrastructure was not installed in
proper way. The roads were put along the ridge of the hill, in the
opposite direction from Leposavic. Having once served in the
military, he could tell that the road had been constructed with a
different purpose.</div>
<div align="left" class="western" style="line-height: 100%;">
<br /></div>
<div align="left" class="western" style="line-height: 100%;">
As for the
Serb IDPs, nothing was done. Without support from Serbian Government,
CCK and Red Cross, all those people would have died. Roma returns
have been also discussed for seven years. Mr. Pedersen gave even the
date when they would be back, but nothing was done. Currently,
Municipality of Leposavic is constructing a kindergarten in the town,
and the location is next to a Roma camp. Nobody could guarantee
hygienic standards in the kindergarten under those conditions. <u>VB</u>
asked that SRSG solve the problem, as his position enabled him to do
that.
</div>
<div align="left" class="western" style="line-height: 100%;">
<br /></div>
<div align="left" class="western" style="line-height: 100%;">
In regards
to final status, <u>VB </u>stated that it should be based on
compromise. He further elaborated, that any other decision would not
pass. IC can try to convince K-Serbs that cohabitation between
K-Serbs and K-Albanians is possible, but not ethnically mixed
settlements.</div>
<div align="left" class="western" style="line-height: 100%;">
<br /></div>
<div align="left" class="western" style="line-height: 100%;">
<u>VB</u>
also commented that there was an agreement that there would no be
customs established on the border crossing, however, currently there
is a big sign “Customs Zone”. IC should be honest and see the
reality. K-Serbs could not survive if they were left to live together
with Albanians. There will be no survival of K-Serbs in the South,
regardless of decentralization arrangements. Even now we are
witnessing disappearance of Serbs from the South.
</div>
<div align="left" class="western" style="line-height: 100%;">
<br /></div>
<div align="left" class="western" style="line-height: 100%;">
<u>SRSG
</u>disagreed with the notion that the SE is not interested in
negotiations. There were 10 months of intensive negotiations mainly
on four topics. Issues like split of former Yugoslavia’s debts had
been discussed in great details, a mutually acceptable solution was
found, and there was no need for further discussions. SRSG opined
that K-Serbs should be interested in keeping momentum and finding
solutions instead of maintaining a state of uncertainty.
</div>
<div align="left" class="western" style="line-height: 100%;">
<br /></div>
<div align="left" class="western" style="line-height: 100%;">
<u>SRSG</u>
also rejected the statement that “nothing had been done” by UNMIK
on specific issues mentioned. Regarding unsolved criminal cases, he
informed that investigation is ongoing and some arrests had been made
and soon UNMIK will be able to report progress. However it also
depends on cooperation of people with Police. There are indications
that not all of them are ethnically motivated, although that does not
make them any better, nor does it mean that we do not need to solve
them.</div>
<div align="left" class="western" style="line-height: 100%;">
<br /></div>
<div align="left" class="western" style="line-height: 100%;">
<span style="color: black;"><span lang="en-GB"><u>DM
</u></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span lang="en-GB">fully
agreed with the SRSG that there was no sound evidence that the
security incidents that took place in April and May, and which led to
municipal assembly decisions to suspend all cooperation with the
central PISG, were ethnically motivated. However, the concern is that
the number of security incidents increased, be they ethically
motivated or not, and that none of these cases was solved. They need
information, whatever it is.</span></span></div>
<div align="left" class="western" lang="en-GB" style="line-height: 100%;">
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<div align="left" class="western" style="line-height: 100%;">
Speaking
about returns, <u>SRSG</u> stated that there was increase in returns
after the Protocol between UNMIK and Belgrade was signed in June
2006. While acknowledging regretable delays in Roma return, he
informed interlocutors that in January 2007 actual returns to Roma
Mahalla could start and there is a need of good cooperation with the
K-Serbian community.</div>
<div align="left" class="western" style="line-height: 100%;">
<br /></div>
<div align="left" class="western" style="line-height: 100%;">
With regard
to <span style="color: black;"><span lang="en-GB">“Ibar Lepenac”(whose
HQ apparently has always been in Pristina), </span></span><u>SRSG
</u>stressed that UNMIK cannot do anything outside institutions. Even
if valid, this case should be brought to the KTA Board, where a seat
is reserved for a K-Serb and a possibility of consensus decisions
exists. This particular case has never been discussed there. It can
be fixed not outside of institutions but inside when your voice is
heard. It would also be better if privatization of SOEs could have
started in the northern municipalities.</div>
<div align="left" class="western" style="line-height: 100%;">
<br /></div>
<div align="left" class="western" style="line-height: 100%;">
<u>DM</u>
explained that when saying “nothing” they meant tangible results
regarding returns.</div>
<div align="left" class="western" style="line-height: 100%;">
<span style="color: black;"><span lang="en-GB">About
participation in Kosovo institutions, he expressed view that
participation of K-Serbs in the past resulted in March 2004. The only
outcome of an appointment of K-Serb as minister of MCR was
embezzlement of few million Euros and no returns. </span></span><span style="color: black;"><span lang="en-GB"><u>DM</u></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span lang="en-GB">
reiterated that K-Serbs would like to take part in institutions that
would be democratic and where they won’t be outvoted by the
majority community and where they will not simply serve as
decoration. </span></span>
</div>
<div align="left" class="western" lang="en-GB" style="line-height: 100%;">
<br /></div>
<div align="left" class="western" style="line-height: 100%;">
<span style="color: black;"><span lang="en-GB"><u>DM</u></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span lang="en-GB">
raised issue of electricity. He referred to confusing information
regarding present status of negotiations in Belgrade between CCK and
UNMIK on a possibility for K-Serbs to receive donation of electricity
from Serbia. In this regard, </span></span><span style="color: black;"><span lang="en-GB"><u>SRSG</u></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span lang="en-GB">
stressed that the negotiations between KEK and CCK are still
on-going, despite some premature statements from CCK. However, there
is a fairly good chance that an agreement between CCK and KEK will be
reached. K-Serbs have been receiving electricity for a long time. The
agreement should also deal with this situation. </span></span><span style="color: black;"><span lang="en-GB"><u>DM</u></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span lang="en-GB">
fully agreed that K-Serbs should be paying with some special
arrangements for IDPs, unemployed and other social cases. But it also
true that consumers should have a right to choose distributor, which
is impossible with the existing monopoly. Serbs in the north
suggested somebody else who could deal with payments and
distribution. Kosovo could be an exporter of electricity, but with
the way how KEK is running business it cannot provide efficient power
even within Kosovo. </span></span><span style="color: black;"><span lang="en-GB"><u>DM</u></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span lang="en-GB">
also mentioned problem of telephone communication.</span></span></div>
<div align="left" class="western" lang="en-GB" style="line-height: 100%;">
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<div align="left" class="western" style="line-height: 100%;">
<span style="color: black;"><span lang="en-GB"><u>SRSG</u></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span lang="en-GB">
commended desire to pay for electricity and reassured interlocutors
that in accordance with The Athens Agreement there will be a
consumers’ choice in Kosovo. He also explained procedure for
“Electrokosmet” to start operations in Kosovo: first, it should
apply for license; receive license, and then begin operational
activities. This process can take time. The same applies for
telephone communications: 063 and 064 should apply for license.</span></span></div>
<div align="left" class="western" lang="en-GB" style="line-height: 100%;">
<br /></div>
<div align="left" class="western" style="line-height: 100%;">
<span style="color: black;"><span lang="en-GB">In
closing, participants agreed on the importance of continued dialogue
and committed themselves to further meetings.</span></span></div>
<div align="left" class="western" lang="en-GB" style="line-height: 100%;">
<br /></div>
<div align="left" class="western" style="line-height: 100%;">
(Drafted by xxxxxxxxxxxx, SPA, Mitrovica RHQ, 8 December 2006)<br />
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* Note: See previous for the briefing memo prepared for this meeting: <a href="https://realdiplomacy.blogspot.com/2019/01/kosovo-briefing-note-for-new-srsgs.html">https://realdiplomacy.blogspot.com/2019/01/kosovo-briefing-note-for-new-srsgs.html</a><br />
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Gerard Galluccihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15909722623126534873noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9140938493240583164.post-7858851093315496742019-01-23T10:02:00.000-05:002019-01-23T10:19:45.170-05:00Kosovo: Briefing Note for the new SRSG’s meeting with the MAPs of Northern Municipalities on December 7, 2006*<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-weight: normal;">UNITED
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<b>United Nations Interim Administration Mission </b>
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UNMIK</h2>
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<b>Mission d’Administration Intérimaire des
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<span style="font-size: medium;">MEETING
WITH</span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span lang="en-GB">Municipal
Assembly Presidents of </span></span></span><span style="font-size: medium;">Zvečan/</span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span lang="en-GB">Zvecan,
Zubin
Potok/Zubin Potok, Leposavic/Leposaviq </span></span></span>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="font-size: medium;">Location:
Zvečan/</span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span lang="en-GB">Zvecan
Municipal Assembly Building</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: medium;">Time:
10:30 – 11:45</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: medium;">Date:
Thursday, 7 December 2006</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: medium;"><br />
</span><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>Participants:
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<span style="font-size: medium;">Dragisa
MILOVIC – Municipal Assembly President of Zvečan/</span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span lang="en-GB">Zvecan</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span lang="en-GB">Slavisa
RISTIC - </span></span></span><span style="font-size: medium;">Municipal
Assembly President of </span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span lang="en-GB">Zubin
Potok/Zubin Potok</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span lang="en-GB">Velimir
BOJOVIC - </span></span></span><span style="font-size: medium;">Municipal
Assembly President of </span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span lang="en-GB">
Leposavic/Leposaviq</span></span></span></div>
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<div class="western" lang="en-GB" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: medium;"><u>UNMIK</u></span></div>
<div align="justify" class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: medium;">SRSG</span></div>
<div class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span lang="en-GB">Gerard
Gullucci - UNMIK Regional Representative</span></span></span></div>
<div class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span lang="en-GB">Juozas
Kazlas - UNMIK Deputy Regional Representative</span></span></span></div>
<div class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span lang="en-GB">Kerim
Bardad-Daidj – UNMIK OIC</span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span lang="en-GB">
</span></span></span><span style="font-size: medium;">Zvečan/</span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span lang="en-GB">Zvecan
</span></span></span>
</div>
<div class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span lang="en-GB">Jean-Luc
Sintes - UNMIK Municipal Representative </span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span lang="en-GB">Zubin
Potok/Zubin Potok</span></span></span></div>
<div class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span lang="en-GB">Lilia
Galieva – UNMIK Municipal Representative Leposavic/Leposaviq</span></span></span></div>
<div class="western" lang="en-GB" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
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<div class="western" lang="en-GB" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: medium;"><u>Background</u></span></div>
<div class="western" lang="en-GB" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<br /></div>
<div class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-GB">There
is strong unity between three northern Municipal Presidents (MAP).
With very few exceptions, they come out with consolidated positions on
main issues (security, freedom of movement,
cooperation/non-cooperation with PISG, etc) usually guided by
Belgrade and the SNC. Such conformity not only relates to their
affiliation with the same political party (DSS) but also to
similarity of every day problems they face. As of June 2006,
following several security related incidents against K-Serbs,
presented by the SNC as inter-ethnic, all three municipalities
introduced boycott of PISG. Boycott stalled developing relations
with central level and, together with non-acceptance of salaries from
PISG, cost local population some two million Euros. The boycott also
led them to mostly refuse SRSG Contingency Fund support (though Zubin
Potok accepted and is utilizing).</span></span></span></div>
<div class="western" lang="en-GB" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<br /></div>
<div class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: medium;"><u>Talking
Points</u></span></div>
<div align="justify" class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<br /></div>
<div class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><u><b>SRSG
message: </b></u></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u><b>now
and through transition period UNMIK will continue to work with all
communities helping them to address daily problems</b></u></span></span></div>
<div class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<br /></div>
<div class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<br /></div>
<div align="justify" class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><b>Status
process and continued role of UNMIK</b></span></div>
<ul>
<li>
<div class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: small;">UNMIK
not part of the negotiations process but is assisting the Special
Envoy.</span></span></div>
</li>
<li>
<div class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: small;">SE
postponed submission of his proposals until after Serbian Elections</span></div>
</li>
<li>
<div class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: small;">UNMIK
will neither support nor prevent the elections to the extent it does
not endanger calm and public order; we expect local authorities to
exercise responsibility and mature behavior during this and
following period.</span></div>
</li>
<li>
<div class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: small;">UNMIK
will continue working with local authorities during the coming month
and through transitional period, and support them in tackling
practical issues important for every day life of all communities.</span></div>
</li>
<li>
<div class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: small;">Other
priorities for UNMIK include decentralization, transfer of
authority, security sector review, restructuring, ensuring
stability.</span></div>
</li>
<li>
<div align="justify" class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: small;">Emerging
package will include substantial decentralization, new
municipalities (including north Mitrovica), protection for cultural
sites, minority rights and continued involvement of international
community.</span></span></div>
</li>
<li>
<div align="justify" class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: small;">UNMIK
will continue efforts to bring attention of international donors to
the north. So far we have been successful in this regard and managed
to generate more than 1.5 millions Euros for economic development in
northern municipalities.</span></div>
</li>
<li>
<div align="justify" class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: small;">We
believe that continued dialogue and cooperation will be essential
after the status determination and pledge our readiness to do so.</span></div>
</li>
<li>
<div align="justify" class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: small;">What
else do you feel you need to remain secure and increase your
well-being in your communities? </span>
</div>
</li>
</ul>
<div align="justify" class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<br /></div>
<div align="justify" class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><b>Cooperation
between northern Municipalities and PISG</b></span></div>
<ul>
<li>
<div class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: small;">UNMIK
did not react politically to your boycott of PISG despite our strong
disapproval of this action. Not only UNMIK but IC as well has been
encouraging you to revisit this decision.</span></span></div>
</li>
<li>
<div class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: small;">Since
June 2006, the International Security Presence in Kosovo has
introduced additional measures to enhance security arrangements in
Kosovo and specifically in minority areas. You have seen these
changes in the north as well.</span></div>
</li>
<li>
<div class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: small;">It
should be recognized that the general security situation has
improved. The specific cases that you cited in your decision to cut
ties with PISG remain very much under investigation.</span></div>
</li>
<li>
<div class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: small;">Meanwhile,
the northern community has lost some two million Euros from the
Kosovo budget during this period. This money is not “Albanian”
or “Serb” but everyone’s.</span></span></div>
</li>
<li>
<div class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: small;">It
is regretful that you did not accept funding for Quick Impact
Projects from SRSG’s Contingency Fund. This was not even from.
KCB.</span></span></div>
</li>
<li>
<div class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: small;">Against
this backdrop, we ask that you reconsider your decision regarding
the boycott at least partially, regarding budgeting. We are ready
to assist.</span></span></div>
</li>
</ul>
<div class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<br /></div>
<div class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><b>Electricity</b></span></div>
<div class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<br /></div>
<ul>
<li>
<div class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: small;">In
line with UNMIK’s general efforts to improve every day life of
local communities one of greatest concerns is power supply
especially during coming winter.</span></span></div>
</li>
<li>
<div class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: small;">UNMIK
has been engaged in series of consultations with Belgrade
authorities to address electricity issue more broadly. Recent
contacts in this regard proved to be encouraging and in the near
future most probably you will see practical results.</span></div>
</li>
</ul>
<div class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<br /></div>
<div align="justify" class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Return
to Svinjare </b></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: small;">(</span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Background:</i></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i><b>
</b></i></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>All
essential repairs and reconstruction are on track to be completed by
14 December, following which, on 15 December, there is scheduled to
be the final Svinjarë/Svinjare Decision Making Board held in
Svinjarë/Svinjare, signalling the successful completion of the
project. However, few IDPs appear willing to return at this time</i></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-GB">).</span></span></span></div>
<div class="western" lang="en-GB" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<br /></div>
<div class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<br /></div>
<ul>
<li>
<div class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: small;">Reconstruction
of houses in Svinjare is almost complete. Next week IDPs can start
returns and this is a very good development. </span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-GB">The
OKPCC will be able to provide those who return this year with wood
stoves, firewood, and fencing. Necessary security arrangements will
be in place. It’s time for the IDPs to make up their mind.</span></span></span></div>
</li>
<li>
<div class="western" lang="en-GB" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: small;">No
one can question their right to make a choice in good will and
without intimidation. They can return, or sell, or use those houses
for rent.</span></div>
</li>
<li>
<div class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-GB">A
realistic concern, however, is that if the houses are left
unoccupied over the winter, they will be vulnerable to thefts and
weather damage. Such scenario is not acceptable. By finishing
reconstruction and handing over the premises to the owners, UNMIK
will complete its part of the job and will not carry further
responsibilities of maintaining them in order or with regard to
additional renovation after the winter.</span></span></span></div>
</li>
<li>
<div class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-GB">We
are ready to assist IDPs in every reasonable way as soon as they
make decision. It may be possible, for example, to facilitate a
rental scheme for those properties. This way the houses will be
taken care of, but IDPs would maintain the right to return to their
property. </span></span></span>
</div>
</li>
</ul>
<div class="western" lang="en-GB" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<br /></div>
<div class="western" lang="en-GB" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><b>Return
to Roma Mahalla</b></span>
</div>
<div class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<br /></div>
<ul>
<li>
<div class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: small;">After
many years of delay Roma Mahalla reconstruction is developing in a
very satisfactory way. The actual return could start in January
2007.</span></span></div>
</li>
<li>
<div class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: small;">Municipal
authorities in Mitrovice/a actively cooperate to help the process.</span></div>
</li>
<li>
<div class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: small;">UNMIK
expects that K-Serbian community can contribute to the ERA returns
in positive way.</span></div>
</li>
</ul>
<div class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<br /></div>
<div style="line-height: 100%;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u><b>Reactive
(m</b></u></span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><u><b>unicipal
concerns likely to be raised during the meeting)</b></u></span></div>
<div style="line-height: 100%; margin-left: 0.2in;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><b>Security
</b></span><span style="font-size: small;">(</span><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Background:
MAPs continuously criticize l</i></span><span style="font-size: small;"><i>ack
of progress in investigation of incidents which happened earlier this
year (killing of one K-Serb from Zitkovac and shooting at two young
Serbs at gas station, attack of a Priest and his family, throwing of
a hand grenade to a family in Rudare, hand grenade attack at “Dolce
Vita” Café); they claim that this situation presumes impunity for
K-Albanians and provides grounds for new attacks. They may also
criticize KPS for lack of professionalism, experience, and equipment,
for presence of K-Albanian KPS in the north especially near the
administrative boundaries in the north and in traffic control unit). </i></span>
</div>
<div style="line-height: 100%;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><b>Suggested
response:</b></span></div>
<ul>
<li>
<div align="justify" class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: small;">Security
related issues top priority for UNMIK.</span></div>
</li>
<li>
<div align="justify" class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: small;">But
security issues should be separated from politics.</span></div>
</li>
<li>
<div align="justify" class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: small;">In
order to perform effectively, Police needs support and cooperation
from local leaders and community. </span>
</div>
</li>
<li>
<div align="justify" class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: small;">There
are a lot of cases when investigation cannot be done properly
because of lack of cooperation from locals.</span></span></div>
</li>
</ul>
<div style="line-height: 200%;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-GB"></span></span>
</div>
<div style="line-height: 100%;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-GB">Zubin
Potok MAP may raise the long-standing issue of </span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-GB"><b>Water/Electric
Company "Ibar Lepenac" </b></span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-GB">(</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>Background:
the local Serbs believe that this company -- based in Pristina and
made up of K-Albanians -- wrongly claims to represent the Ibar
Company which actually runs the Gazivode Dam and Hydro plant in Zubin
Potok. According to the MAP, Ibar Lepenac is nothing more that a
group of former Ibar employees who misrepresented themselves as the
proper management of Ibar in order to collect the EU10 million a year
in payments for the water and power from Gazivode</i></span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-GB">.
</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>In
return, the people who actually run the Dam get nothing other than
funds for 40 of the 200 people who work for Ibar in the north [the
rest getting salaries from Serbia]</i></span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-GB">.)
</span></span>
</div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-GB"></span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Suggested
response: </b></span>
</div>
<ul>
<li>
<div style="line-height: 100%;">
<span style="font-size: small;">UNMIK
has done the best it can on economic and business issues but much
needs the clarity that future status will bring.</span></div>
</li>
<li>
<div style="line-height: 100%;">
<span style="font-size: small;">We
are look into the issue you raise.</span></div>
</li>
</ul>
<div style="line-height: 100%;">
<span style="font-size: small;">MAPs
may raise </span><span style="font-size: small;"><b>issue of
unspent funds due to boycott of KCB municipal budget</b></span><span style="font-size: small;">
and quire about possible ways of spending it next year or suggest
deposit into a separate bank account.</span></div>
<div style="line-height: 100%;">
<br /></div>
<div style="line-height: 100%;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><b>Suggested
response:</b></span></div>
<ul>
<li>
<div style="line-height: 100%;">
<span style="font-size: small;">UNMIK
must follow established procedures and you have had time to consider
for yourselves the implication of the refusal to accept your money
through the KCB.</span></div>
</li>
<li>
<div style="line-height: 100%;">
<span style="font-size: small;">However,
with our basic approach of helping UNMIK can consider your official
request to make an exemption from the established deadline.</span></div>
</li>
</ul>
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<br /></div>
<div style="line-height: 100%;">
<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="Declaration"></a><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Additionally
MAPs may rise questions related to privatization (allegedly unfair
for Serbs), cuts of telephone lines in enclaves. </b></span></div>
<div style="line-height: 100%;">
<br /></div>
<div style="line-height: 100%;">
<span style="color: #38761d;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>*NOTE: The Memorandum of Conversation will be in next post. </b></span></span>
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Gerard Galluccihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15909722623126534873noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9140938493240583164.post-45033396983468415672019-01-16T14:32:00.000-05:002019-01-16T14:34:41.367-05:00Kosovo: SRSG’s meeting with the MAPs of Northern Municipalities on December 9, 2005<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<br /></div>
<h1 class="western">
Memorandum of Conversation</h1>
<div align="center" class="western" style="line-height: 100%;">
<br /></div>
<div align="center" class="western" style="line-height: 100%;">
<span style="font-size: medium;"><u><b>Internal
Memorandum</b></u></span></div>
<div align="left" class="western" style="line-height: 100%;">
<br /></div>
<div align="justify" class="western" style="line-height: 0.17in;">
Subject:
SRSG’s meeting with the MAPs of Northern Municipalities</div>
<div align="left" class="western" style="line-height: 100%;">
Date: 9
December 2005</div>
<div align="left" class="western" style="line-height: 100%;">
Venue: Zvecan
Municipality</div>
<div align="left" class="western" style="line-height: 100%;">
<br /></div>
<div align="left" class="western" style="line-height: 100%;">
<b>ISSUES
REQUIRING FOLLOW UP:</b></div>
<div align="left" class="western" style="line-height: 100%; margin-left: 0.25in;">
.<b> </b>
</div>
<ul>
<li>
<div align="left" class="western" style="line-height: 100%;">
Establish
further contacts on the Decentralisation Program.
</div>
</li>
</ul>
<div align="left" class="western" style="line-height: 100%;">
<br /></div>
<div align="left" class="western" style="line-height: 100%;">
<b>Municipal
Assembly Presidents:</b></div>
<div align="left" class="western" style="line-height: 100%;">
Mr. Dragisa
Milovic (DM) – Municipal Assembly President of Zvečan/<span style="color: black;"><span lang="en-GB">Zvecan;
Mr. Slavisa Ristic (SR) - </span></span>Municipal Assembly President
of <span style="color: black;"><span lang="en-GB">Zubin Potok/Zubin Potok;
Mr. Velimir Bojovic (VB) - </span></span>Municipal Assembly President
of <span style="color: black;"><span lang="en-GB"> Leposavic/Leposaviq</span></span></div>
<div align="left" class="western" lang="en-GB" style="line-height: 100%;">
<br /></div>
<div align="left" class="western" style="line-height: 100%;">
<span style="color: black;"><b>UNMIK</b></span><b>
participants: </b>
</div>
<div align="left" class="western" style="line-height: 100%;">
Mr<span style="color: black;"><span lang="en-GB">
Søren Jessen-Petersen, </span></span><span style="color: black;">Mr Gerard
Gallucci, </span><span style="color: black;"><span lang="en-GB">Mr </span></span><span style="color: black;">Petr
Ivantsov, Mr Henrik Villadsen,</span><span style="color: black;"><span lang="en-GB">
</span></span><span style="color: black;">Mr Devender Singh (Note taker),
Mr Jean-Luc Sintes, Mr Detlef Beisiegel, Mr Lameck Kawiche.</span></div>
<div align="left" class="western" style="line-height: 100%;">
<br /></div>
<div align="left" class="western" style="line-height: 100%;">
<span style="color: black;"><span lang="en-GB"><u>The
SRSG</u></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span lang="en-GB">
</span></span>briefed the participants on the beginning of the status
process noting that UNMIK is not part of the status process but would
support it within its mandate. While the Status process will focus on
politics, he would like to focus on the people. He underlined that
there will be many concerns and preoccupations in this crucial
period. UNMIK will promote closer collaboration with Belgrade and
Kosovo Serbs to focus on key issues so as to reassure Kosovo Serbs
that any status outcome would focus on their future. He was not
prepared to accept <span style="color: black;"><span lang="en-GB">that
people should be let down if there was an unfavourable outcome.</span></span></div>
<div align="justify" class="western" lang="en-GB" style="line-height: 0.17in;">
<br /></div>
<div align="justify" class="western" style="line-height: 0.17in;">
<span style="color: black;"><span lang="en-GB"><u>The
SRSG</u></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span lang="en-GB">
determined that there were five key areas to reassure Kosovo Serbs in
next few months: i) Standard Implementation process and how UNMIK can
push it; ii) Decentralisation as a fundamental issue with the ongoing
comprehensive reform focussing on minorities needs to be reassured
that they can manage their own affairs; iii) Freedom of movement and
focussing on Kosovo Albanians to do more in this area; iv) Belgrade
getting involved focussing on Kosovo Serbs residing in Kosovo; v)
Kosovo Serb representatives playing their role in key areas through
involvement in institutions and on practical issues. </span></span><span style="color: black;"><span lang="en-GB"><u>The
SRSG</u></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span lang="en-GB"> noted
encouraging results from the recent meetings held on practical issues
and felt there was scope for doing more in that area. He touched upon
the modest support provided by the SRSG to the Municipalities given
their enormous needs and hoped that it will lead to more.</span></span></div>
<div align="justify" class="western" lang="en-GB" style="line-height: 0.17in;">
<br /></div>
<div align="justify" class="western" style="line-height: 0.17in;">
<span style="color: black;"><span lang="en-GB"><u>The
SRSG</u></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span lang="en-GB"> then
stressed that security was basis of everything discussed in the
meeting and said that he was aware of immense concern about it. He
stated there had been deeply regrettable incidents over last weeks
and he condemned them. While it was important to resolve these
crimes, it could not be concluded if these were inter-ethnic or who
was responsible for these incidents. Nevertheless, psychological fear
was growing as a result of these incidents leading to diminished
freedom of movement. He informed that, after the bus incident near
Prizren, intensive additional steps are envisaged by Police and KFOR.
</span></span><span style="color: black;"><span lang="en-GB"><u>The SRSG</u></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span lang="en-GB">
hoped that it will have the desired effect even though there were
some senseless people on all sides and it was difficult to stop it
altogether. </span></span>
</div>
<div align="justify" class="western" lang="en-GB" style="line-height: 0.17in;">
<br /></div>
<div align="justify" class="western" style="line-height: 0.17in;">
<span style="color: black;"><span lang="en-GB"><u>DM</u></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span lang="en-GB">
thanked the SRSG for providing a general overview on Kosovo. He
agreed that while status talks are ongoing, they have to think of the
people and address their problems. He concurred with the SRSG that
security and freedom of movement are key problems. He claimed that
the level of violence was increasing and KFOR, Police and the
Municipality have to stop it. In this context, he referred to a bomb
thrown in a house in Mali Rudare in Zvecan Municipality. Recalling
recent release of Fatmir Limaj, </span></span><span style="color: black;"><span lang="en-GB"><u>DM</u></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span lang="en-GB">
averred that it would encourage extreme Albanians to continue with
their designs. He affirmed that decentralisation was the key issue
needing resolution and characterised it as “a precondition for all
preconditions”. He favoured creation and establishment of
Municipalities with Serb majorities or with Kosovo Serbs and Kosovo
Albanians together with competencies about Health, Education,
Culture, Police etc. He called for horizontal connection between the
Municipalities and institutional linkages with Serbia. Referring to
Romas in Zitkovac camp and IDPs from Svinjare and Obilic displaced in
Zvecan, he asserted that it was time to provide possibility for IDPs
to return to their homes. </span></span><span style="color: black;"><span lang="en-GB"><u>DM</u></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span lang="en-GB">
argued that it was difficult to get into the institutions while two
thirds of the population is displaced elsewhere. Highlighting high
unemployment rate (60%), he urged all concerned to provide new
opportunities so that people can stay here. He mentioned that he was
interested and sensitive to the problems of North Mitrovica because
many of these impacted on Zvecan. </span></span><span style="color: black;"><span lang="en-GB"><u>DM
</u></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span lang="en-GB">underscored
that status problem could be solved in Kosovo with compromise and
respecting the interests of both sides. Finally, he thanked the SRSG
for his support for the project, which he said was important for
their municipality.</span></span></div>
<div align="justify" class="western" lang="en-GB" style="line-height: 0.17in;">
<br /></div>
<div align="justify" class="western" style="line-height: 0.17in;">
<span style="color: black;"><span lang="en-GB"><u>VB</u></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span lang="en-GB">
expressed agreement with DM and stated that they have to be prepared
for a decision that they may not like. He expressed fear that status
of Kosovo may be resolved as a future for Albanians but not for
Serbs. He recalled the meeting of 13 Kosovo Serb representatives with
the Status Envoy where all of them expressed their unanimous view
that any decision other than independence could be accepted. He
opined that relations between Kosovo Albanians and Serbs had been
negative all their lives, not just last six years. Recalling that his
municipality was connected to the then autonomous province of ‘Kosovo
and Metohija’, he wondered how a Municipality with 99% Serb
population could be called an ‘Albanik’ Municipality. </span></span><span style="color: black;"><span lang="en-GB"><u>VB</u></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span lang="en-GB">
said he could not accept that Kosovo Albanians were asking for
independence only and nothing else. Referring to disrespect of human
rights for last six years, he claimed that Kosovo Albanians would
behave better as status talks progress but it was not in their
hearts. Taking out a map, he reminisced how his father had to leave
Suva Reka Municipality to settle in North Kosovo and now his grandson
may have to do the same. He contended that any unsuitable decision
from the international community would not create stability in the
region. </span></span><span style="color: black;"><span lang="en-GB"><u>VB</u></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span lang="en-GB">
felt that if final status is independence, not a single Serb will
remain in this area; hence a solution to somehow satisfy both sides
should be found. Pleading for objectivity on both sides, he mentioned
that there were many models which could be followed so that both
communities could live a normal life.</span></span></div>
<div align="justify" class="western" lang="en-GB" style="line-height: 0.17in;">
<br /></div>
<div align="left" class="western" style="line-height: 100%;">
<span style="color: black;"><span lang="en-GB"><u>SR</u></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span lang="en-GB">
mentioned that while burden of status talks had shifted to Mr
Ahtisaari, UNMIK has obligation in non-status areas. He specifically
referred to Standard Implementation, which he admitted was a process
that can’t be accomplished overnight. He stressed that UNMIK will
have to be very determined to make concrete progress on
decentralisation and it was SRSG’s obligation. He felt that the
Albanian’s wish for an independent state is really to have central
power over the Serbs. The IC must prevent creation of that kind of
central power. He elaborated decentralisation as transferring
authority and power from central level to local levels and not only
creating new Municipalities. He added that diminishing budgetary
support every year does not augur well for good future. </span></span><span style="color: black;"><span lang="en-GB"><u>SR
</u></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span lang="en-GB">mentioned
two villages (</span></span>Banjë/Banja<span style="color: black;"><span lang="en-GB">
and </span></span>Suvogërll/Suvo Grlo<span style="color: black;"><span lang="en-GB">)
in </span></span>Skenderaj / Srbica<span style="color: black;"><span lang="en-GB">
Municipality, which want to be connected to Zubin Potok Municipality
not only for security but other reasons as well. These were
multi-ethnic villages and if a decision in the context of
decentralisation allows this, he would have no objection. He also
pointed out that there were many such villages, where Serbs no longer
reside but will return if connected to Zubin Potok. He claimed that
he had no territorial ambitions. Finally, he said they were ready for
all solutions to status issue. SR also appealed to his colleague
from Leposavic to not leave the rest of them alone in Kosovo.</span></span></div>
<div align="left" class="western" lang="en-GB" style="line-height: 100%;">
<br /></div>
<div align="left" class="western" style="line-height: 0.17in;">
<span style="color: black;"><span lang="en-GB"><u>The
SRSG</u></span></span><span style="color: black;"> concluded the meeting by
thanking all the participants for their contributions and responded
that he had not come with any message about a decision that they may
not like but that it was good to prepare for whatever may come.
Appreciating their comments about decentralisation, he said he was
convinced that it will be a key feature of any status outcome. Kosovo
Albanians will have to realize a decentralisation program that leads
to a Kosovo for all communities. If such decentralisation does not
emerge, the Status Envoy will ensure that decentralisation is
integrated with status process with a strong focus on what
communities need. He welcomed all comments especially on multi-ethnic
municipalities. </span><span style="color: black;"><u>The SRSG </u></span><span style="color: black;">recognized
that while regular progress could not be made on returns, UNMIK was
making progress on Romas in lead affected camps. Camp Oesterode is
being prepared as a transit facility for those Romas in the camps,
who want to move there. It will be a step on way to their formal
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Gerard Galluccihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15909722623126534873noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9140938493240583164.post-31685449569369400872018-12-20T08:21:00.000-05:002018-12-20T08:22:56.707-05:00Kosovo: Answering Some Questions in 2010<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
After I left Kosovo in 2008 (and East Timor in 2010), I continued to follow events there and to respond to questions and comment. The three items below are the responses to questions from someone doing a masters thesis and from the European Voice plus a lette to the European Voice. (I believe the European Voice is now defunt.) If the last item was ever published, I don't have it. (Btw, you can click on these documents to read them in full original and download them.)<br />
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Gerard Galluccihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15909722623126534873noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9140938493240583164.post-27824535182662155972018-12-11T16:53:00.002-05:002018-12-11T16:53:20.747-05:00Kosovo: March 2007 -- property Issues in Bosniak Mahalla<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">On March 16, 2007, I had to call upon our police to stop illegal construction by a local Serb in Bosniak Mahalla, I don't remember the details but the person involved must have been trying to build a large dwelling in a mixed area which the local Albanians and/or others found threatening as well as illegal. (Legality was not a leading motif in the Mahalla.) Below is the complaint from the CCK (I don't speak Serbian and cannot remember what it said) and my reply.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">On March 28, I sent this report to HQ: </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i>Re following Police report of last night:<br />"On Tuesday 27th of March 2007 at approx. 19.45 hrs, an Unidentified Explosive Device exploded at the junction of "Oslobodena Str.' and "Nemanjina Str." in Little Bosnia - Mitrovica North. <br /><br />Consequences: 03 individual cars slightly damages by parts of the explosive device. No people injured. "<br /><br />This was apparently a "black grenade" (i.e., a fairly small device) and may have been thrown by a disgruntled young Albanian who had previously in the evening had a altercation with civpol on north side of Bridge. He reportedly threatened the police with further action. Police are still investigating but everyone at the scene -- Albanians and Serbs -- remained calm and apparently already attributed the attack to this "crazy Albanian" and not to inter-ethnic tensions. Nevertheless, police (including UNMIK-P) increased patrols in other mixed areas of north Mitrovica. UNMIK also informed CCK and Mitrovica CEO to assure that things were under control. We also drank tea with mixed group of locals at a small cafe at the scene. Everyone there was calm, including one of the damaged car owners. <br /><br />Comment: The north shore and especially Bosniak Mahalla remains tense but there have been no more indications of conflict over ongoing construction. However, it is vital that UNMIK-P Enhancement Force be kept at full strength (at least 130) over the next months. We are in deep trouble if we lose control during any reaction to almost certain continued acts of isolated violence. <br /><br />I should add that while I was drinking tea and smoking a cigar the owner gave me -- everyone was quite uncomfortable with my not smoking -- I heard the men joking in a mix of Serbian and Albanian. Not many places this happens in public in Kosovo. I joined in with the little common language we had and we all laughed in agreement that Kosovo is a crazy place and Bosniak Mahalla the craziest of all. When I got home and was reading in bed, I heard a prolonged burst of automatic weapon fire plus the firing of a pistol. Jumped out of bed and opened by door to the balcony. Scared a poor fellow across the street taking a piss. But I guess it was nothing. Took my heart a little time to slow down enough to permit sleep. </i></span><br />
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Gerard Galluccihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15909722623126534873noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9140938493240583164.post-16384950744386455122018-12-04T16:57:00.000-05:002018-12-04T17:00:34.995-05:00Kosovo: An UNMIK Police Report on the March 17, 2008 Coutrthouse Debacle<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>The document below is an UNMIK Police report prepared on the events leading up to and on the day of March 17, 2008. It should be read in conjunction with <a href="https://realdiplomacy.blogspot.com/2018/11/kosovo-march-17-2008-coutrthouse-debacle.html">the prior piece</a>. I was kept in the dark about UNMIK HQ's planning for re-taking the Court. Suspecting something was afoot, I pressed for confirmation and was finally given a briefing the night before the action by the UNMIK Police Regional Command in Mitrovica. They had by then been superseded by UNMIK HQ. They joked that the entire plan was simply to go and arrest Serb thugs. Indeed, UNMIK HQ had disregarded our warnings about the likely violence that would surround any use of force against the Courthouse and UNMIK Police (and KFOR) was woefully unprepared for events that day. I later learned that the initial seizure of the Court appeared to have been allowed by UNMIK police sent by Pristina HQ to guard the building. I believe that the UNMIK Pristine leadership provoked the entire sad episode. None of this is reflected in the police report which apparently made it into my hands on May 5, 2008.</b></span></span><br />
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Gerard Galluccihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15909722623126534873noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9140938493240583164.post-32939598232102816532018-11-19T16:32:00.000-05:002018-11-19T16:32:38.762-05:00Kosovo: The March 17, 2008 Coutrthouse Debacle<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="font-size: large;">Despite <a href="https://realdiplomacy.blogspot.com/2018/11/kosovo-2007-understanding-north.html" target="_blank">our warning</a> to UNMIK HQ Pristina (acting according to guidance from the US) and to UN DPKO New York (unwilling to "second guess" the clueless leaders of UNMIK), UNMIK launched an action on March 17, 2008 to retake the courthouse in north Mitrovica. Here follows my email the following day sent to everyone in UNMIK and DPKO I could think of to make clear the damage done to our peacekeeping efforts in the north and along the Ibar and to forestall further ill-considered actions. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><a href="http://www.balkanalysis.com/kosovo/2010/10/12/an-insider%E2%80%99s-view-of-recent-affairs-in-kosovo-interview-with-gerard-gallucci/">Balkanalysis.com</a> has my fuller account of the background events leading up to what happened that day.</span><br />
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I left Kosovo in October 2008 with some encouragement from the UNMIK leadership and DPKO. (I transferred to UNMIT in East Timor as chief of staff.) But I continued to follow events in Kosovo, contributing pieces to <a href="http://www.transconflict.com/?s=gallucci" target="_blank">TransConflict</a>, and had visited northern Kosovo in June, 2011. I can't quite remember how the invitation came up to testify in November to the US Congress on Kosovo but I did. H<span style="font-family: 'TimesNewRomanPSMT'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">ere follows the text of my comments to the Subcommittee on Europe and
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Gerard Galluccihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15909722623126534873noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9140938493240583164.post-21988635665815311242018-11-10T10:55:00.001-05:002018-11-10T10:59:17.658-05:00Kosovo 2007: Understanding the North<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>Following up the <a href="https://realdiplomacy.blogspot.com/2018/11/from-my-2007-journal-october-23-today.html" target="_blank">previous entry</a>, from my journal for November 27, 2007.:</b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b><br /> Had to go to Pristina today for lunch with the chief DPKO guy for Europe, who encouraged me to keep doing what we are doing and to let them know when UNMIK HQ strays into anything that will upset the apple cart in the north. They liked my dissent messages and share our view that the basic thing is to get the UN out of here before the real crisis hits. That means before Kosovo becomes a failed state and the north fully partitions. The UN New York plan is to somehow squeeze between competing pressures from the West and Russia to leave five months after the UDI expected in the 2nd half of January, turning things essentially over to the EU, before it fully understands what it will be getting. I suggested we won't be able to last five months.</b></span><br />
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Gerard Galluccihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15909722623126534873noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9140938493240583164.post-88773235396321456832018-11-03T06:38:00.000-04:002018-11-10T07:03:33.254-05:00Kosovo 2007: UNMIK HQ Gets the North wrong<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b><i>From my 2007 journal:</i></b></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b><i><u>October 23</u>: Today was a difficult day. Went down to Pristina early to meet the DPKO Assistant Secretary General and brief him on the way up for meeting in Mitrovica. I think the briefing -- which I used to broach the perceptions of reality from up here and how they differ from UNHQ Pristina -- and the meetings -- in which he could see and feel the intractable situation we face -- went well. But I have been blindsided before by a polite hearing that hid an already established agenda. Yesterday I saw a "code cable" to New York that was blatantly misleading about Serb "parallel institutions. I had the ASG meet with my whole senior staff so he could hear from them. He encouraged me to put our views down on paper through a cable to NY. I already keep a number of NY people on my email list. He is inviting me to help correct the picture before a Nov 6 meeting to be chaired by the Secretary General. All and all, I'd say we are reaching some internal "cleansing of the spears." </i></b></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b><i><br /><u>November 5</u>: ... Had an inconclusive meeting with the SRSG this afternoon. He is clueless but not absolutely stupid. He understands that I cannot be run down or over but still doesn't know what to do with me and still doesn't understand the depth of the lake of shit all around us and what we need to do to keep from having it flood the little Potemkin village we live in.</i></b></span></span><br />
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Gerard Galluccihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15909722623126534873noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9140938493240583164.post-67906285351640247842018-10-26T23:06:00.001-04:002018-10-26T23:06:56.695-04:00Fears of a Kosovo Partition (July 2006)<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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mid-2006, Western concern over the unstable Kosovo situation had come to take the form of UNMIK Pristina worrying over a possible move by the northern Kosovo Serbs to implement a "hard" partition of the north to preempt an expected unilateral move by the Kosovo Albanians south of the Ibar to declare independence from Serbia. (In the event, the northern K-Serbs never did seek partition -- though they hoped, and still hope, that Belgrade would thus save them -- while the K-Albanians did take the first move by <a href="https://realdiplomacy.blogspot.com/2018/10/2007-recommendation-for-stepped-process.html" target="_blank">declaring independence in February 2008</a>.) UNMIK's HQ stood in the middle of the K-Albanian capital of Kosovo -- Pristina -- and was under the direct influence of the Western countries (and especially the US and UK) which fully supported the K-Albanian position. (At the US Office's July 4th celebration that year, the head of the office publicly called the northerners that UNMIK Mitrovica worked with "troublemakers.) Under those influences -- channeled by the Office of Political Affairs (OPA) -- the UNMIK leadership grew quite paranoid about a northern partition. OPA prepared a strategy paper outlining how UNMIK might work to prevent it. OPA drafted a Code Cable in July to be sent to New York to cover the paper. I don't remember UNMIK Mitrovica being given the chance to be involved in the preparation. However, the PDSRSG was not unaware of the realities of the north so the OPA paper had to recognize that UNMIK had little to work with beyond continued diplomacy and peacekeeping. In the event, in late July, he and I had the opportunity </span></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span></span></span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">in Vienna to brief </span></span></span></b><b><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: #38761d;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: #38761d;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">senior Western officials and </span></span></span></b>Martti Ahtisaari (the UNSG's Special Envoy for Kosovo negotiations, UNOSEK) </span></span></span></b><b><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: #38761d;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: #38761d;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: #38761d;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">on the north</span></span></span></b></span></span></span></b>. It
became clear that the Western dictum against partition was little more than words. The draft code cable follows. (I'm not sure it was sent.) The full draft strategy paper is too long to provide here.</span></span></span></b></div>
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Gerard Galluccihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15909722623126534873noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9140938493240583164.post-103492362215434502018-10-23T18:19:00.000-04:002018-10-23T18:21:06.314-04:00The 2013 Brussels Agreement and the Implementation Plan<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">As noted in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brussels_Agreement_%282013%29" target="_blank">Wikipedia</a>, the <i>Brussels Agreement </i>was made between the governments of Serbia and Kosovo on the normalization of their relations. It was negotiated and concluded, <i>although not signed by either party</i>, in Brussels under the auspices of the European Union. The negotiations were led by Serbian Prime Minister Ivica Dačić and Kosovo Prime Minister Hashim Thaçi, and mediated by EU High Representative Catherine Ashton. The agreement was concluded on 19 April 2013.</span></span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Actually there does seem to have been an Implementation Plan initialed by the two leaders. (I think it's them, but see for yourself below). And relations have not be fully normalized until now and the plan never implemented.</span></span></b><br />
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