Strong support from the international community is needed to ensure 'positive momentum' is sustained between Serbia and Kosovo, a United Nations envoy told the Security Council today, adding that progress cannot be taken for granted . UNTV
A senior United Nations (UN) envoy warned today (22 March) that ongoing tensions and incidents on the ground must not be allowed to jeopardize the political talks between Serbia and Kosovo which have resulted in important positive developments and must be permitted to achieve their potential. UNTV
Following a visit to the Balkans by Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon last month, his representative in Kosovo today (21 August) called on the Security Council to encourage leaders inSerbiaand Kosovo to take a bolder approach to core political issues facing the region, while putting in place agreed-upon measures on practical matters. UNTV
Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today (24 July) called for strong efforts towards the normalization of relations between Kosovo and Serbia. UNMIK UNDP
Ten years after the Brahimi report on peacekeeping reform, former UN Adviser and Envoy Lakhdar Brahimi says that if the UN received “no more than 10,000 troops to be deployed outside of Kabul” in early 2002, “the situation in the unhappy country would have evolved much more positively then it did.” UNTV / FILE
The Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Kosovo told the United Nations Security Council today that a key continuing role for UNMIK will be to lead the process of dialogue with Belgrade. UNTV
Presenting his plan to reconfigure the UN Mission in Kosovo (UNMIK) to the Security Council today, UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said that “while no solution is ideal, this package constitutes the best way forward to manage the situation in Kosovo”. UNTV
The 15-member Security Council delegation arrives in Pristina on a fact-finding trip to help determine the permanent future status of the Serbian province with an ethnic Albanian majority. UNMIK
Thousands of protesters marking Flag Day in Pristina throw red paint and stone UN and government buildings. UNMIK
Twenty-five Kosovo ethnic Albanian families return to live in their former villages within a majority Kosovo Serbian area. Thousands of ethnic Albanians were killed in the conflict before NATO’s 1999 air war forced Serbia to relinquish control of the region to the United Nations. UNMIK