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06PRISTINA216
2006-03-10 17:21:00
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Embassy Pristina
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KOSOVO: AGIM CEKU APPROVED AS NEW PRIME MINISTER;
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UNCLAS PRISTINA 000216
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DEPT FOR DRL, INL, EUR/SCE, AND EUR/SSA, NSC FOR BRAUN,
USUN FOR DREW SCHUFLETOWSKI, USOSCE FOR STEVE STEGER
E.O. 12958: N/A
TAGS: PGOV PREL KDEM UNMIK YI
SUBJECT: KOSOVO: AGIM CEKU APPROVED AS NEW PRIME MINISTER;
KOLE BERISHA AS NEW ASSEMBLY PRESIDENT
Sensitive but unclassified, please protect accordingly.
UNCLAS PRISTINA 000216
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DEPT FOR DRL, INL, EUR/SCE, AND EUR/SSA, NSC FOR BRAUN,
USUN FOR DREW SCHUFLETOWSKI, USOSCE FOR STEVE STEGER
E.O. 12958: N/A
TAGS: PGOV PREL KDEM UNMIK YI
SUBJECT: KOSOVO: AGIM CEKU APPROVED AS NEW PRIME MINISTER;
KOLE BERISHA AS NEW ASSEMBLY PRESIDENT
Sensitive but unclassified, please protect accordingly.
1. (U) The Kosovo Assembly approved outgoing Kosovo
Protection Corps commander General Agim Ceku as Kosovo's new
Prime Minister and his slate of ministers with 65 votes in
favor; 33 opposed and 5 abstentions. The vote followed along
party lines with coalition members Democratic League of
Kosovo (LDK),Alliance for the Future of Kosovo (AAK) and the
"6 plus" group of non-Serb minority parties delivering the
votes of their members present for the vote, while the
opposition Democratic Party of Kosovo (PDK) and ORA Reform
Party voted against. Abstaining were assembly members from
the newly-formed Group for Integration composed of four
representatives from ethnic minorities and two from fringe
ethnic Albanian political parties.
2. (SBU) Ceku was magnanimous in his acceptance speech. He
addressed Kosovo Serbs in Serbian, the first time a Kosovo
prime minister has ever spoken in Serbian from the rostrum of
the Kosovo Assembly. He guaranteed Kosovo Serbs their equal
place and rights in Kosovo society and institutions. Ceku
met yesterday with Serbian List for Kosovo and Metohija
(SLKM) head Oliver Ivanovic to discuss SLKM rejoining the
government and will continue to reach out to ordinary Kosovo
Serb as well as their political leaders.
3. (SBU) In an overwhelming vote earlier in the day, the
Assembly voted 100 in favor, two opposed and three
abstentions for new Assembly president Kole Berisha, who
replaces Nexhat Daci. The opposition PDK and ORA parties
joined the coalition partners in the vote, a clear slap at
the demoted Daci, who was know for his quick temper and
autocratic methods while Assembly president.
4. (SBU) The opposition took full advantage of Berisha's more
tolerant and democratic, bent, spending several hours of
debate excoriating the work of the government of outgoing PM
Bajram Kosumi and, in the case of the PDK, the decision of
Ceku to enter the political fray with so few changes in his
cabinet.
GOLDBERG
SIPDIS
SENSITIVE
SIPDIS
DEPT FOR DRL, INL, EUR/SCE, AND EUR/SSA, NSC FOR BRAUN,
USUN FOR DREW SCHUFLETOWSKI, USOSCE FOR STEVE STEGER
E.O. 12958: N/A
TAGS: PGOV PREL KDEM UNMIK YI
SUBJECT: KOSOVO: AGIM CEKU APPROVED AS NEW PRIME MINISTER;
KOLE BERISHA AS NEW ASSEMBLY PRESIDENT
Sensitive but unclassified, please protect accordingly.
1. (U) The Kosovo Assembly approved outgoing Kosovo
Protection Corps commander General Agim Ceku as Kosovo's new
Prime Minister and his slate of ministers with 65 votes in
favor; 33 opposed and 5 abstentions. The vote followed along
party lines with coalition members Democratic League of
Kosovo (LDK),Alliance for the Future of Kosovo (AAK) and the
"6 plus" group of non-Serb minority parties delivering the
votes of their members present for the vote, while the
opposition Democratic Party of Kosovo (PDK) and ORA Reform
Party voted against. Abstaining were assembly members from
the newly-formed Group for Integration composed of four
representatives from ethnic minorities and two from fringe
ethnic Albanian political parties.
2. (SBU) Ceku was magnanimous in his acceptance speech. He
addressed Kosovo Serbs in Serbian, the first time a Kosovo
prime minister has ever spoken in Serbian from the rostrum of
the Kosovo Assembly. He guaranteed Kosovo Serbs their equal
place and rights in Kosovo society and institutions. Ceku
met yesterday with Serbian List for Kosovo and Metohija
(SLKM) head Oliver Ivanovic to discuss SLKM rejoining the
government and will continue to reach out to ordinary Kosovo
Serb as well as their political leaders.
3. (SBU) In an overwhelming vote earlier in the day, the
Assembly voted 100 in favor, two opposed and three
abstentions for new Assembly president Kole Berisha, who
replaces Nexhat Daci. The opposition PDK and ORA parties
joined the coalition partners in the vote, a clear slap at
the demoted Daci, who was know for his quick temper and
autocratic methods while Assembly president.
4. (SBU) The opposition took full advantage of Berisha's more
tolerant and democratic, bent, spending several hours of
debate excoriating the work of the government of outgoing PM
Bajram Kosumi and, in the case of the PDK, the decision of
Ceku to enter the political fray with so few changes in his
cabinet.
GOLDBERG