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WHAT
WOULD BE INTERNATIONAL CIVILIAN PRESENCE AFTER STATUS
(Zeri) What kind of international civil-political
presence will be in Kosovo after the definition of status, which is expected to
be known in the late spring of 2006, if the international process will go
according to known predictions? It seems that an answer to this question was
easier to find in the autumn last year, than now, when only several weeks divide
Kosovo from the most important period in its newest history. At that time, it
seemed that Brussels (the EU) was looking for a possibility that the EU takes
over the main political role in Kosovo, similar to the one it has now in Bosnia
and Herzegovina, where the UN had never the position it has in
Kosovo. Ambassador Kai Eide too, in his first Report
abut Kosovo, had recommended to look into the possibility of the appointment of
an EU senior representative, with an approximate mandate with the one in Bosnia,
although in Kosovo this representative would serve in the first place as a
guarantor of all the rights of the minority communities, of Serbs first of all.
Now,
it seems that many things were put in doubt regarding the political role of the
EU due to the failure of the referendums for the EU Constitution in
Lately, from the office of Javier Solana
were sent two massages addressed to Prishtina on this very important issue. The
first one expressed the interesting of Solana about the ideas and proposals of
the Kosovans themselves for the international civil presence in Kosovo, while
the second message of Solana was the denial that UNMIK will be replaced by
EUMIK. Both
these messages verify that What
it may be assumed now is that besides EUMIK, Some western diplomats think that the best
solution in this aspect would be reaching of bilateral agreements between Kosovo
Government and certain Western Governments, which would help Kosovo to
strengthen rule of law or minorities protection. These ideas also are not
detailed and are more suggestions of the moment of the western
diplomats. |
