.October 30, 2024.Thanks, Madam President. And also thank you Exclusive Representative Ziadeh, for your briefing. Our company would like to recognize the attempts you and your group at UNMIK have made earlier interethnic conversation and the rule of law reform in Kosovo.Our company are actually bound to also acknowledge there are other UN individual agencies in Kosovo who are actually even more appropriately performing this type of work.
After a quarter of a century, UNMIK has long outlasted its initial directed, and the United States asks for the Council to review UNMIK in Kosovo as well as work toward its possible dusk.There are actually much greater requirements on the Protection Authorities’s opportunity, as all of us recognize, and also these rundowns must be actually lowered to yearly, personal appointments. Our company also advise UNMIK, in future reporting, to keep a neutral point of view, to better reflect UNMIK’s impartiality.It has been actually much more than a year because the Serb paramilitary assault on the Kosovo Police Office near the Banjska Monastery in north Kosovo, and also Serbia has actually created no relevant progress in holding accountable those entailed, featuring the self-proclaimed innovator of the assault, Milan Radoicic. We urge full liability according to the guideline of legislation.We likewise continue to be concerned over uncoordinated actions taken by the Federal government of Kosovo, which are inconsistent along with Kosovo’s dedication to work through the EU-facilitated Dialogue.
These actions affect the well-being of prone as well as non-majority areas and also weaken the road to normalization between Kosovo and Serbia.The USA discusses the goal of people of the Western side Balkans, including Kosovo and Serbia, to build better regional economical integration, foster regional security, democracy and multi-ethnic cultures, as well as to preserve the regulation of legislation.The EU-facilitated Conversation is the agreed course for normalization in between Serbia and Kosovo and also progression towards membership in European establishments.The United States remains to partner with the EU, the OSCE, as well as NATO partners to keep stress reduced in the north of Kosovo to prevent escalatory solutions by either celebration and to precipitate on applying all Conversation commitments in between Serbia and Kosovo, consisting of the establishment of the Association of Serb-majority Towns. Our experts caution each edges against uncoordinated or escalatory activities and prompt all of them to solve issues within the Dialogue’s structure.The supreme target of the USA continues to be eventual mutual acknowledgment.Thank you, Madam Head of state.