.Oct 30, 2024.Thank you, Madam President. And thanks Exclusive Agent Ziadeh, for your instruction. Our experts would like to recognize the initiatives you as well as your staff at UNMIK have actually made earlier interethnic discussion and the policy of legislation reform in Kosovo.Our team are responsible to also acknowledge there are actually other UN resident agencies in Kosovo that are actually even more appropriately doing this kind of work.
After a fourth of a century, UNMIK has long outlived its original required, as well as the United States requires the Council to evaluate UNMIK in Kosovo as well as work toward its own ultimate sundown.There are actually much greater requirements on the Surveillance Council’s time, as all of us recognize, as well as these briefings should be actually minimized to annual, private meetings. We also urge UNMIK, in potential coverage, to preserve a neutral point of view, to better show UNMIK’s impartiality.It has actually been actually more than a year considering that the Serb paramilitary assault on the Kosovo Police Station near the Banjska Monastery in north Kosovo, and also Serbia has actually brought in no significant improvement in incriminating those included, consisting of the self-proclaimed innovator of the attack, Milan Radoicic. We urge full liability in accordance with the regulation of law.Our company also remain interested over uncoordinated actions taken by the Government of Kosovo, which are irregular with Kosovo’s commitment to work through the EU-facilitated Conversation.
These activities influence the well being of susceptible and non-majority communities as well as threaten the path to normalization between Kosovo and Serbia.The United States shares the goal of people of the Western side Balkans, featuring Kosovo and Serbia, to create more significant regional financial assimilation, foster local stability, democracy and multi-ethnic societies, as well as to preserve the policy of law.The EU-facilitated Dialogue is actually the agreed pathway for normalization between Serbia and also Kosovo and also progression towards subscription in International companies.The United States continues to partner with the EU, the OSCE, as well as NATO companions to always keep tensions low in the north of Kosovo to put off escalatory solutions through either event and to push forward on applying all Dialogue dedications in between Serbia and Kosovo, including bureaucracy of the Association of Serb-majority Communities. We caution both sides versus unskillful or escalatory actions and urge them to resolve issues within the Conversation’s platform.The supreme target of the United States remains possible reciprocal awareness.Thank you, Madam Head of state.