.October 30, 2024.Thank you, Madam President. As well as thank you Unique Agent Ziadeh, for your instruction. Our team wish to acknowledge the attempts you and also your team at UNMIK have actually created ahead of time interethnic dialogue and also the rule of law reform in Kosovo.Our company are actually responsible to also acknowledge there are actually various other UN individual agencies in Kosovo that are actually more properly doing this form of work.
After an one-fourth of a century, UNMIK has long outlasted its own authentic mandate, and also the United States requires the Council to assess UNMIK in Kosovo and pursue its eventual sunset.There are much more significant requirements on the Safety Council’s opportunity, as all of us understand, as well as these instructions should be minimized to annual, personal conferences. Our team likewise advise UNMIK, in potential reporting, to preserve a neutral perspective, to far better show UNMIK’s impartiality.It has been greater than a year since the Serb paramilitary strike on the Kosovo Police Headquarters near the Banjska Abbey in northern Kosovo, and also Serbia has actually made no purposeful development in holding accountable those involved, including the self-proclaimed forerunner of the attack, Milan Radoicic. Our company advise total liability in accordance with the rule of legislation.We likewise remain worried over unskillful actions taken by the Authorities of Kosovo, which are actually inconsistent with Kosovo’s devotion to resolve the EU-facilitated Discussion.
These actions impact the well-being of prone and non-majority areas as well as threaten the path to normalization between Kosovo and Serbia.The USA discusses the goal of the people of the Western Balkans, consisting of Kosovo and Serbia, to build better regional economical integration, foster local reliability, democracy and also multi-ethnic cultures, and to preserve the policy of rule.The EU-facilitated Conversation is the agreed course for normalization in between Serbia and also Kosovo and also progression in the direction of subscription in European organizations.The USA remains to collaborate with the EU, the OSCE, and NATO partners to maintain tensions reduced in the north of Kosovo to put off escalatory procedures by either event and to precipitate on carrying out all Discussion commitments in between Serbia and also Kosovo, including the establishment of the Association of Serb-majority Districts. Our company forewarn each sides against unskillful or escalatory activities and also urge them to resolve problems within the Dialogue’s framework.The supreme target of the USA continues to be ultimate mutual recognition.Thanks, Madam President.