Washington –- Following an April 23-24 visit by the U.N. Security Council to Brussels, Belgium; Belgrade, Serbia; and Kosovo’s capital, Pristina, the United States plans to co-sponsor a U.N. resolution that would allow Kosovo’s provisional government to declare independence, U.S. Under Secretary of State R. Nicholas Burns says.

“We must now act quickly in the next weeks and months to finish the job by helping to lead Kosovo to independence,” Burns said April 17 in testimony to the House Foreign Affairs Committee. Burns is under secretary of state for political affairs, the third-ranking official at the State Department.

Following 18 months of negotiations, U.N. Special Envoy Martti Ahtisaari on April 3 formally proposed to the Security Council that Kosovo be granted independence while temporarily remaining under international supervision. (See related article.)

Kosovo, a province of Serbia, is administered by the United Nations under U.N. Resolution 1244, passed in June 1999 when a NATO campaign drove Yugoslav Serbs out of Kosovo, halting years of violence and human rights abuses.

Under the Ahtisaari plan, “Kosovo will become independent but will continue a period of international tutelage for a number of years,” Burns told lawmakers. “NATO, for example, will continue to police Kosovo’s borders and maintain internal peace until Kosovo is ready to form its own armed forces. The European Union will lead the major international civilian effort to ensure that the settlement of the Ahtisaari plan is fully implemented.”

Several lawmakers expressed concerns that granting independence to Kosovo would set a dangerous precedent for other breakaway regions. Independence is strongly opposed by Serbia and by Kosovo Serbs. Russia, which holds veto power on the Security Council, has expressed concerns.

“A solution that’s imposed from the outside, unless the parties both agree, is going to lead to a real military problem, in my opinion, down the road,” Representative Howard Berman, a California Democrat, warned Burns.

Burns stressed that the United States and its European allies consider Kosovo’s history of oppression under now-deceased Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic to be a unique situation that does not set a precedent for other separatist movements. (See related article.)

Burns also said Ahtisaari spent 18 months trying to achieve a compromise, but the government in Belgrade “made a political decision not to participate” meaningfully in the negotiation. Belgrade also pressured Kosovo Serbs to stay away from negotiations, he said.

The U.N. Security Council has five permanent members and 10 elected members. A Security Council decision requires approval by nine of the 15 members. However, the five permanent members -– China, France, Russia, the United Kingdom and the United States -– can veto a decision. U.S. and European diplomatic efforts in the weeks ahead are focused on persuading Russia not to veto a Kosovo resolution.

The current 10 elected members of the Security Council are Belgium, the Republic of Congo, Ghana, Indonesia, Italy, Panama, Peru, Qatar, Slovakia and South Africa.

At the suggestion of Russia, all 15 ambassadors on the Security Council plan to visit Belgrade and Pristina, as well as Brussels, during the week of April 23.

“We felt it would be to the advantage of those countries to be able to meet the Serb leadership in Belgrade and the Albanian and Serb leadership in Pristina,” Burns said. Security Council ambassadors also will meet in Brussels with NATO Secretary-General Jaap de Hoop Scheffer and with the European Union's foreign policy chief, Javier Solana of Spain.

In the weeks following the visit to the region, the United States plans to co-sponsor a resolution that would replace U.N. Resolution 1244, which currently governs Kosovo, Burns said. “This resolution will not actually confer independence on Kosovo,” Burns said, adding that the United States does not believe the United Nations has the right under international law to create an independent state.

Instead, the proposed resolution “will remove political and legal impediments to independence,” Burns said. The proposed resolution also would mandate continued international supervision by the European Union and NATO.

“Once the resolution is passed, we would think that … the Kosovar leaders would declare their own independence,” Burns said. “And then the United States and other countries would recognize that independence.”

The U.S. goal, Burns said, “is to bring the Kosovo status process to a timely and successful conclusion by the end of this spring.”

House Foreign Affairs Chairman Tom Lantos, a Democrat from California, said the Kosovo proposal appears to have been “shaped with wisdom and patience” by Ahtisaari.

“Clearly, this is not a perfect solution,” Lantos said. “I would have preferred something different. But there is no better settlement in sight. There is no more time to wait.”

Transcripts of statements at the hearing by Lantos and Burns are available on the House Foreign Affairs Committee Web site.

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New York -- Negotiations on Kosovo's future status have reached the "crucial and final stage," the U.S. special envoy for Kosovo status talks says, and the international community should accept the U.N. settlement plan to help bring peace and stability to southeastern Europe.

"The United States believes the time is at hand. Kosovo needs to be settled. It can't be left dangling and we are determined to do everything in our power to make sure the issue is settled," Ambassador Frank Wisner, the secretary of state's special envoy for Kosovo, said April 4.

"We have a chance to bring to a conclusion the last of the territorial quarrels that erupted in the wake of the collapse of the former Yugoslavia, the last of the areas of uncertainty in southeastern Europe; a chance to establish a stable environment with clarity, so that people in the region know what their choices are and where they are headed," Wisner said.

On April 3, the U.N. Security Council held its first session with U.N. special envoy Martti Ahtisaari to discuss his proposal on Kosovo's status.

Under its 1999 resolution (UNSC Resolution 1244), which placed Kosovo under U.N. administration and envisioned a political process to determine Kosovo's final status, the Security Council has the responsibility to determine a settlement.

Ahtisaari, who spent 15 months talking with Serbian and Kosovo officials, concluded after exhaustive negotiations that independence is the only option to ensure Kosovo's political and economic stability. Under his plan, Kosovo would be a multiethnic society with the culture, language and educational policy of all communities protected and promoted. The Serbian Orthodox Church also would be safeguarded. The NATO-led Kosovo force would continue to provide security and an international civilian representative would oversee the settlement. (See related article.)

Speaking at the New York Foreign Press Center, Wisner said that the United States supports Ahtisaari’s conclusions and sees them as "fair, sensible" and "skillfully negotiated." Independence is the only choice, he said.

The issue has reached a culminating point and further delay in arriving at a long-promised settlement would cause only more instability, he said. Pointing to the violence that erupted in March 2004, he said the "status quo is simply not an option."

New negotiations would not bring any better solution than the one at hand, Wisner added. "Every reasonable avenue has been explored" by Ahtisaari, he said.

Serbia strongly opposes independence, but given the circumstances of the past 15 years, Wisner said, "there is no way, in short, that the Albanian speaking majority [in Kosovo] would ever accept to go back under the rule of Serbia."

"We recognize Serbia has the strongest views over maintaining its sovereignty over Kosovo," the ambassador said.

Other issues related to the breakup of the former Yugoslavia – the status of Croatia, Montenegro, Macedonia, and Bosnia-Herzegovina -- have been settled, he said. "It is now Kosovo that needs to be settled," he said.

The United States has a long-standing and very deep relationship with the Republic of Serbia, Wisner said. "We want to build on that relationship. We believe we can do it better when the problems of the area are settled."

Negotiations in the U.N. Security Council will be intense, the ambassador acknowledged. Russia, which has veto power in the council, has reservations about the plan.

Nevertheless, Wisner said, Russia has been part of the deliberations from the beginning. "We would like ... to end this association over Kosovo in the same spirit of collaboration and cooperation that we began it."

"Our objective is: That which we began together, let's end together," he said.

SOLUTION URGENTLY NEEDED

Wisner said that there will be ample opportunity to discuss and consider Ahtisaari's proposal over the next weeks. Opposition "can only be overcome through the active exercise of diplomacy -- lay out choices, talk them through, think of the road ahead, reflect on basic and core interests."

From the U.S. perspective, the proposal is "overwhelmingly clear and so urgently needed that the odds of the right conclusion being reached by [the] Security Council are quite clear," Wisner said.

Kosovo is "of vital significance" to Europe and the United States, the ambassador said. "Europe's southeastern stability depends on a settlement in Kosovo." (See related article.)

"Europe provides a substantial portion of the troops that are deployed under NATO command. Europe is a major contributor to the economic environment, and the support of present [U.N.] mission," the ambassador said. Approximately 17,000 international troops, including 1,700 Americans, continue to serve under NATO’s Kosovo Force, also known as KFOR.

"We went to war over this issue, we have 1,700 American soldiers on the ground, we are major contributors to the peacekeeping and U.N. costs in Kosovo,” Wisner said. “We've made our statement. This is important to us."

The future for Serbia, Kosovo, and the rest of the region "lies inside of Europe not as some island off the shore with no association with Europe," Wisner also said.

Kosovo today is a poor nation, with 50 percent of its people unemployed, he said. "It can't move ahead unless it has sovereignty, but it will not move ahead to its fullest without being part of Europe."

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Washington -- The United States believes that if Kosovo is separated from Serbia under a U.N. plan, the move would not set a precedent for other breakaway regions, particularly the “frozen conflicts” near the boundaries of the former Soviet Union.

“Kosovo is not a precedent for any other situation,” the State Department’s Daniel Fried told reporters March 12. Fried is assistant secretary of state for European and Eurasian affairs.

U.N. Special Envoy Martti Ahtisaari is negotiating a settlement on the future status of Kosovo, a province of Serbia that has been administered by the United Nations since the 1999 NATO war. The international intervention ended human rights abuses by Yugoslav Serb security forces but also put on hold a drive for independence by Kosovo separatists. Kosovo’s ethnic Albanians seek independence. Serbia and ethnic Serbs within Kosovo strongly oppose independence. Ahtisaari is expected to make his recommendation to the U.N. Security Council by the end of March. (See related article.)

Serbia’s prime minister, Vojislav Kostunica, warned March 11 that independence for Kosovo would be a “dangerous precedent” for the United Nations. Russian diplomats also have warned that an independent Kosovo would set a precedent for breakaway regions, such as Abkhazia, Chechnya, Nagorno-Karabakh, South Ossetia and Transnistria, in and around the former Soviet Union. Except for Chechnya, these disputes are known as “frozen conflicts” because their outcomes have remained unresolved since the early 1990s.

It is the diplomatic position of the United States that Kosovo represents a unique situation, with an unprecedented level of involvement by the U.N. Security Council and NATO. Between 1993 and 1999, the U.N. Security Council issued seven resolutions on Kosovo, four of them in 1998 when Serbian forces responded to an armed uprising by uprooting Kosovo Albanian communities, creating hundreds of thousands of refugees and killing at least 2,000 Albanians. NATO’s 78-day military campaign required a consensus decision by all 19 member nations at the time, and 17,000 NATO-led forces continue performing peacekeeping duties in Kosovo today, primarily protecting minority Serb communities.

“There are a great many parts of the world that have issues between minority and majority communities,” Fried told reporters at the State Department during a March 12 roundtable talk. “There are a great many parts of the world that have separatist communities.”

“There is no situation anywhere in the world that bears a resemblance to Kosovo,” Fried said. “There is no place where the U.N. has been administering for seven -- now close to eight -- years. There is no case where NATO was forced to intervene to stop a massive process of ethnic cleansing.” (See related article.)

U.S. officials also stress that the current, democratically elected government is not responsible for the actions of Slobodan Milosevic, who was the Yugoslav president at the time of the intervention in Kosovo. Milosevic was voted out of office in October 2000. When he attempted to manipulate voting results, a nonviolent democratic uprising removed him from power. The following year, he was transferred to the Netherlands to face a war-crimes tribunal in The Hague. He died there, in prison, in 2006.

“AN IDEAL SET OF CHOICES IS NO LONGER ATTAINABLE”

“The choices the international community faces in Kosovo are not an ideal set of choices,” Fried said. “An ideal set of choices is no longer attainable. The ideal set of choices went away as Yugoslavia broke up. And, as I said [during a recent visit] in Belgrade, Yugoslavia didn’t break up so much as it was murdered by extreme nationalists.”

“Kosovo,” he added, “is not a precedent for any other area, whether that’s Abkhazia, South Ossetia, Chechnya, Transnistria, Corsica or Texas.” In U.S. history, Texas seceded from Mexico in 1836 and was an independent republic for nine years before joining the United States.

In a news conference March 10 in Vienna, Austria, Ahtisaari said his Kosovo proposal “is a realistic compromise, ensuring the functionality of Kosovo, and at the same time, catering to the need of the Kosovo Serb community and other minority communities.”

He stressed that a permanent peace settlement will create economic benefits for Kosovo and its surrounding region. “No one dares invest in a country the status of which is unsure,” he said, citing what he called “totally … an unacceptable level” of unemployment.

Ahtisaari also said those who claim Kosovo would set a dangerous precedent are voicing “unnecessary concern. … You can make a debating point, but that’s as far as it goes.”

The U.N. envoy said he has dealt with numerous conflicts in his diplomatic career, and each conflict has its own unique circumstances and level of involvement by the international community.

“There is very little unity in these conflicts,” Ahtisaari said. He said he wished every conflict could be resolved by the U.N. Security Council. However, he added, “as long as you have five permanent members of the council, one is enough to say, ‘Sorry, I don’t agree.’”

Ahtisaari’s negotiations began in late 2005 at the direction of then U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan. (See related story.)

In January 2006, the International Contact Group for Kosovo – made up of France, Germany, Italy, Russia, the United Kingdom and the United States -- released a statement on the future of Kosovo. The statement ruled out a return of Kosovo to full Serbian control as well as any partition of Kosovo, or any union of Kosovo with any other country, or part of another country.

Præsident Bush ventes at komme til Albanien i Juni. Se under: Albanien.

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OSCE/2007 Udenrigsministeriet har udsendt redegørelse om OSCE/2007. Redegørelserne for 2004, 2005, 2006 og 2007 kan findes samlet på: http://bjoerna.net/balkan-dokumenter/UM-OSCE-Redegørelser-2004-2005-2006-2007.pdf. 2007-Redegørelsen indledes således:

I 2006 kunne OSCE byde velkommen til medlemsland nummer 56. Kun to uger efter at have stemt for uafhængighed ved en folkeafstemning bad Montenegro om optagelse. Forinden havde den nye stat erklæret, at den accepterede alle OSCE-forpligtelser. Montenegro så også gerne en fortsat OSCE-tilstedeværelse for at hjælpe landet med dets reformbestræbelser. Kort efter blev organisationens 18. feltmission etableret. Montenegros hurtige optagelse viser, at OSCE fortsat øver tiltrækning for lande, der ikke er medlem af EU og NATO.

OSCE spiller stadig en vigtig rolle. Historisk bidrog organisationens forløber, Helsingfors-processen, til Murens fald og den kolde krigs afslutning. I dag er organisationen fortsat et forum for en åben og direkte dialog inden for de tre dimensioner på det sikkerhedspolitiske-militære, det menneskeretlige og det økonomisk-miljømæssige område mellem lande i Europa, Nordamerika, Kaukasus og Centralasien. Det er en platform til på en og samme tid at styrke de transatlantiske bånd og inddrage Rusland i den europæiske sikkerhedsarkitektur.

Men OSCE er i lige så høj grad et praktisk instrument. Dets 18 missioner og 3 institutioner støtter og vejleder nye demokratier om udarbejdelse af forfatninger og love, træning af politi og dommere, opbygning af frie medier og beskyttelse af mindretal. Organisationen hjælper med at opbygge aktive civilsamfund og støtter menneskerettighedsforkæmpere – vigtigt i en situation, hvor den demokratiske udvikling er gået i stå eller viser tilbageskridt i visse lande. OSCE spiller også hovedrollen i valgobservationer og er mægler i en række fastlåste konflikter. Med udgangspunkt i OSCE-forpligtelserne – et demokratisk regelsæt – holder landene hinanden fast på fundamentale værdier og forsøger at tage hånd om problemer, inden de udarter sig til kriser.

De senere år har OSCE imidlertid også været under pres. Især Rusland insisterer på en ”reform” af organisationen. Denne dagsorden fyldte meget i 2006. Som svar vedtog ministerrådsmødet i Bruxelles i december en pakke med effektiviseringstiltag. Det er et dansk ønske, at OSCE herefter i højere grad igen skal koncentrere sig om sine kerneopgaver.

Tegningesagen kom også på OSCE’s dagsorden i 2006. Der blev afholdt to særmøder som opfølgning på sagen, og aspekter fra sagen indgik i en række andre møder og konferencer. OSCE-formandens personlige repræsentant mod diskrimination af muslimer besøgte Danmark i maj 2006.

LANDEANALYSEREDSKAB TIL INDSATSER MOD RADIKALISERING. UM skriver:

Udenrigsministeriet har sammen med Dansk Institut for Internationale Studier (DIIS) og i tæt samarbejde med ligesindede donorer og samarbejdspartnere i en række udviklingslande udarbejdet et analyseredskab (Countering Radicalisation through Development Assistance – a Country Assessment Tool), der ser på sammenhængen mellem forhold, der kan lede til radikalisering og rekruttering til terrorisme samt på, hvordan udviklingsindsatser bedst kan tage højde for disse sammenhænge.

Dokumentet slår fast, at radikaliseringsprocesser er komplekse. De faktorer, der fører til radikalisering i eet samfund, kan meget vel bane vejen for reformer og fremskridt i et andet. Derfor må indsatserne planlægges med stor forståelse for den konkrete kontekst. De skal indgå i og målrettet støtte en social og økonomisk udvikling, der rækker ud til de områder og befolkningsgrupper, som føler sig udstødte og marginaliserede.

Mange forskellige slags indsatser er derfor relevante, hvis man skal forsøge at imødegå radikaliseringsprocesser. Danmark yder allerede støtte til en del af de områder, der står centralt, så som støtte til politiske og juridiske reformer, korruptionsbekæmpelse, reform af politi- og fængselsvæsen, fremme af beskæftigelse, uddannelse og øget adgang til offentlige serviceydelser. Arbejdet har dog også peget på vigtigheden af andre mindre velkendte indsatstyper; som f.eks. støtte til lokale samfundsledere, facilitering af dialog med radikale, indsatser mod radikal propaganda og vigtigheden af at skabe en neutral platform for samarbejde.

[PDF-dokument kan downloades fra: http://www.um.dk/NR/rdonlyres/2E032131-AC5A-43A6-B238-3F8328DF3859/0/CountryAssessmentTool.pdf]

Rapport fra Dansk KFOR. Hærens Operative Kommando - se under: Kosova.

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UMs Rejsevejledning: http://www.um.dk/da/menu/Borgerservice/FoerRejsen/Rejsevejledninger/RejsevejledningRusland.htm








Tidligere Præsident Boris Jeltsin er død. Han var Præsident fra 1991 til 1999. Se fx: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boris_Yeltsin [Engelsk].


Forhandlingerne om Kosóva's fremtid. Parlamentet i Kosóva har tilsluttet sig Martti Ahtisaari's forslag. (De fleste Kosovo-Serbere boykotter Parlamentet). Rusland mener derimod ikke at forslaget kan bruges og lægger op til at der skal forhandles endnu engang; man vil ikke utale sig om hvor vidt man vil nedlægge veto i Sikkerhedsrådet, hvis USA m.fl. insisterer på Martti Ahtisaari's forslag og ikke vil acceptere yderligere drøftelser. Kommentar: Sikkerhedsrådet vil formentlig acceptere at der skal undersøges og forhandles yderligere, selv om det ikke vil flytte på hverken Kosóva-Albanerne, Kosovo-Serberne eller Serbien; derimod er det muligt at Rusland og Serbien i den næste tid kan overbevise forskellige medlemmer af Sikkerhedsrådet om at der må gøres mere for at sikre det Kosovo-Serbiske Mindretal.

Det Russiske Udenrigsministerium skrev 20.4.2007 [Unofficial translation]:

Transcript of Remarks and Replies to Media Questions by Russian Minister of Foreign Affairs Sergey Lavrov At Joint Press Conference with Prime Minister Vojislav Kostunica of Serbia, Belgrade, April 19, 2007

Foreign Minister Lavrov: First of all, I wish to once again thank my Serbian friends for the traditional cordiality and hospitality. All the meetings we have today been holding on issues in Russian-Serbian relations bear out the disposition of our two countries to develop the closest partnership in all fields. All that which President Vladimir Putin agreed upon with President Boris Tadic is being implemented.

In the course of our meetings today we outlined some concrete measures to raise the effectiveness of mutual work. We are not at all indifferent to how Serbia is going further to live. It is our leading partner in the Balkans. We are keen to cooperate not only in developing bilateral ties, but also in supporting efforts aimed at stabilizing this hugely important region. Of course, we can’t remain indifferent when a problem still persists in Serbia itself on whose solution not only the destiny of this country, but also that of the region, as well as the directions in which the conflicts in many other regions of the world are going to be settled, will depend. Any wrong, biased step can create extremely serious long-term adverse consequences. Solutions to the problem of Kosovo can therefore be only within international law and must be agreed upon between the parties themselves. Solutions which will be unilaterally imposed, especially from afar, by people who little understand the realities of this region, have no prospect at all.

Kostunica have just said that although resolution 1244 is a consensus UNSC decision, it is not being implemented. Therefore, before plunging into adventure, the Security Council is simply duty-bound to ensure that its previous decision, which laid the basis for settlement, is implemented in full. The Security Council’s mission to Belgrade and Pristina, which is being sent at Russia’s initiative, must give all the Security Council members an opportunity to see with their own eyes how the decisions of this highest body of the international community are being implemented. We will firmly insist that this mission see not a “Potemkin village” in the form of another series of briefings behind closed doors, but the real picture of how the minorities live in the Serbian province of Kosovo.

I hope that this trip and the upcoming review of the implementation of resolution 1244 to be held by the Security Council will help find a solution which will be fair and acceptable to all the sides. There is no need to say that the position in favor of finding agreement between the parties is constructive and positive. The position in favor of a unilateral imposition of any solution is confrontational.

We will remain in continuous contact with our Serbian colleagues and agree our actions on this and other questions of international life.

Question: Has Russia decided, will it put a veto if the UN Security Council adopts an absolutely unacceptable solution to Serbia?

Foreign Minister Lavrov: So far we have nothing to put a veto on. There are no draft resolutions in the Security Council so far. When they appear, we will be taking decisions on the basis of the clearly defined position which I have just stated. But we do not merely take the position of negating the plan of Martti Ahtisaari; we also have a constructive alternative. It consists in that the implementation of resolution 1244 and negotiations must be continued. In the Council, we will stand for this. Let others put a veto on it.

Question: Are you optimistic that Belgrade and Pristina will arrive at an agreement after all?

Foreign Minister Lavrov: I cannot decide for Belgrade and Pristina. I can only say that Russia firmly stands for continuation of negotiations. There will be no sustainable solution, unless there is an agreement. There will be no agreement, unless there are negotiations. That’s why we are for their continuation.

Question: On what must a solution between Belgrade and Pristina be based?

Foreign Minister Lavrov: A solution can be based only on what will be acceptable to Belgrade and Pristina. No one will decide for them. Undoubtedly, very important are international community efforts which would help the parties advance to such a compromise in an organized and, perhaps, a substantive way. In some cases such efforts with respect to other conflicts produce results. In some they fail. As, for example, did the well-known Cyprus settlement plan, which the UN Secretary General – Kofi Annan at the time – had advanced. The plan of Ahtisaari also failed. In both cases the reason behind the failure was the same – the absence of consideration for the interests of one of the parties, and the attempt via proposals being made as though on behalf of the UN to get unilateral solutions through. I hope that those who will continue negotiations between Belgrade and Pristina, and those who will help to continue holding them will take these lessons into account.

Se: http://www.mid.ru/brp_4.nsf/e78a48070f128a7b43256999005bcbb3/fc39a661ee995142c32572c8003ba826?OpenDocument

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Kina: Det Kinesiske synspunkt ligger meget tæt på det Russiske. En talsmand for det Kinesiske UM er 19.4.2007 blevet spurgt: »It is reported that a senior Chinese official said that China supported Serbia's refusal to carry out the UN plan. What's China's position on the issue of Kosovo independence?«. Answer: »China stands for earnest implementation of relevant UN resolutions, and guarantee of the equal rights and interests of all ethnic groups in Kosovo. We hope that parties concerned could give priority to regional peace and stability in their efforts to find appropriate resolution through patient negotiations.«

Se: http://www.fmprc.gov.cn/eng/xwfw/s2510/t312788.htm

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