Remarks through Emissary Robert Wood, Alternative Agent for Special Political Issues, at a UN Security Council Rundown on Kosovo

.October 30, 2024.Thank you, Madam President. And thank you Unique Agent Ziadeh, for your rundown. We wish to acknowledge the efforts you and your group at UNMIK have created ahead of time interethnic conversation and the rule of rule reform in Kosovo.Our company are bound to additionally acknowledge there are other UN resident agencies in Kosovo that are even more appropriately doing this form of job.

After a quarter of a century, UNMIK has long outlasted its original directed, as well as the USA requires the Council to evaluate UNMIK in Kosovo as well as work toward its own ultimate dusk.There are actually a lot more significant requirements on the Security Authorities’s opportunity, as we all know, and these instructions should be actually lessened to yearly, exclusive meetings. Our company additionally advise UNMIK, in potential coverage, to maintain a neutral view, to much better demonstrate UNMIK’s impartiality.It has been actually greater than a year because the Serb paramilitary assault on the Kosovo Police Station near the Banjska Monastery in northern Kosovo, as well as Serbia has made no relevant development in holding accountable those involved, consisting of the self-proclaimed innovator of the strike, Milan Radoicic. Our experts urge total responsibility according to the rule of rule.Our company likewise continue to be interested over unskillful activities taken due to the Authorities of Kosovo, which are irregular along with Kosovo’s dedication to resolve the EU-facilitated Dialogue.

These actions influence the well being of vulnerable and also non-majority neighborhoods and weaken the road to normalization between Kosovo and Serbia.The USA shares the aspiration of the people of the Western side Balkans, including Kosovo and also Serbia, to build more significant regional financial integration, foster local security, freedom and multi-ethnic communities, and also to enshrine the rule of rule.The EU-facilitated Discussion is the agreed pathway for normalization between Serbia as well as Kosovo and progress towards subscription in European organizations.The United States continues to team up with the EU, the OSCE, and also NATO partners to keep pressures reduced in the north of Kosovo to hinder escalatory measures by either event as well as to precipitate on applying all Dialogue commitments between Serbia and also Kosovo, including the establishment of the Affiliation of Serb-majority Municipalities. We forewarn each edges versus unskillful or escalatory actions and recommend all of them to solve problems within the Discussion’s structure.The supreme goal of the USA remains resulting shared awareness.Thank you, Madam President.