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| Identifier | Subject | Date | Office | Classification | Tags |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 01PRISTINA1593 |
THACI SCENESETTER: LEADER LOOKING FOR APPROVAL [...] (U) CLASSIFIED BY AMBASSADOR JOHN K. MENZIES, COM, FOR REASONS 1.5 (B&D) SUMMARY ------- 2. (C) DEMOCRATIC PARTY OF KOSOVO (PDK) PRESIDENT HASHIM THACI IS CONCERNED THAT WASHINGTON IS NEITHER MUCH INTERESTED IN NOR FRIENDLY TOWARDS HIM, AND WILL SEEK DEMONSTRATIONS OF APPROVAL, LAR [...] |
2001-09-11 07:06:00 | Embassy Pristina | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PHUM KDEM EAID ECON NATO SR |
| 03PRISTINA177 |
AAK ADAMANT ON INDEPENDENCE DECLARATION [...] (C) SUMMARY. IN A FEBRUARY 6 MEETING MARKED BY FRANK EXCHANGES, COM TOLD AAK PRESIDENT HARADINAJ THAT HIS PARTY'S DRAFT DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE WAS AN UNWELCOME AND POTENTIALLY DESTABILIZING DIVERSION THAT LEAVES THE REAL BUSINESS OF GOVERNMENT SADLY NEGLECTED. COM ASKED HARADINAJ TO CON [...] |
2003-02-06 17:18:00 | Embassy Pristina | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PHUM KDEM NATO YI |
| 06PRISTINA1001 |
COUNTRY CLEARANCE GRANTED TO TREASURY ADVISORS DECEMBER [...] US Office Pristina welcomes and grants country clearance to Treasury Advisors Mr. Richard Bartholomew, Mr. Keith Clark, Mr. Alan Robidoux, Ms. Darlene Berthod, Mr. Barry Gray and Mr. Richard Seaman to visit Pristina December 10 - December 16, 2006. The purpose of the visit is to participate i [...] |
2006-11-22 08:23:00 | Embassy Pristina | UNCLASSIFIED | AMGT OTRA |
| 06PRISTINA1008 |
COUNTRY CLEARANCE GRANTED TO KOSOVO DESK OFFICER CRAIG [...] US Office Pristina welcomes and grants country clearance to Kosovo Desk Officer Craig Lang to visit Pristina November 26-November 30, 2006. The purpose of the visit is for consultations on issues relating to Kosovo status. Control Officer for this visit will be Political Officer, Tracey Thorn [...] |
2006-11-24 13:42:00 | Embassy Pristina | UNCLASSIFIED | ASEC OTRA SI |
| 06PRISTINA1015 |
KOSOVO: SECOND MOBILE TENDER PROCESS COMPLICATED [...] (C) Summary. Nenad Popovic, the Government of Serbia's (GOS) economic advisor to the Kosovo final status negotiations team and Serbian CCK representative, has requested that UNMIK stop the Kosovo Telecommunications Regulatory Authority (TRA) from dismantling equipment owned by Telecom Serbia [...] |
2006-11-28 17:57:00 | Embassy Pristina | CONFIDENTIAL | ECPS ECON PREL YI |
| 06PRISTINA1016 |
COUNTRY CLEARANCE GRANTED TO KOSOVO DESK OFFICER JOSHUA [...] US Office Pristina welcomes and grants country clearance to Kosovo Desk Officer Joshua Black to visit Pristina December 1-December 6, 2006. The purpose of the visit is to join EUR DAS Rosemary DiCarlo on a joint U.S./EU visit. Control Officer for this visit will be Deputy Political/Economic C [...] |
2006-11-29 09:08:00 | Embassy Pristina | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PGOV SI |
| 06PRISTINA1019 |
COUNTRY CLEARANCE GRANTED TO EUR DAS ROSEMARY DICARLO, [...] US Office Pristina warmly welcomes and grants country clearance to EUR DAS Rosemary DiCarlo to visit Pristina December 2-December 5, 2006. The purpose of the visit is to join a joint U.S./EU visit. Control Officer for this visit will be Deputy Political/Economic Chief, David Whiddon, who can [...] |
2006-11-29 16:02:00 | Embassy Pristina | UNCLASSIFIED | OTRA ASEC AMGT PREL IT SR BE |
| 06PRISTINA1048 |
COUNTRY CLEARANCE GRANTED TO TREASURY ADVISOR MR. PETER [...] US Office Pristina welcomes and grants country clearance to Treasury Advisor Mr. Peter Nicholl December 10 - December 13, 2006. The purpose of the visit is to conduct an assessment mission on possible technical assistance in the areas of: central bank policy and bank supervision. Control Offic [...] |
2006-12-06 11:01:00 | Embassy Pristina | UNCLASSIFIED | AMGT OTRA |
| 06PRISTINA1052 |
KOSOVO: KOSOVO SERBS SKEPTICAL ABOUT PROPOSED [...] (C) SUMMARY. Croatian MP Dr. Milorad Pupovac is discretely working at the behest of Kosovo Prime Minister Agim Ceku to organize an all-Kosovo Serb Congress to unify Kosovo Serbs and help them better represent themselves. Kosovo Serbs are skeptical about this endeavor, and key leaders are spl [...] |
2006-12-09 12:12:00 | Embassy Pristina | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL KCRM PGOV PINR KDEM UNMIK YI |
| 06PRISTINA1053 |
'TIS THE SEASON ... SERB CCK OBSTRUCTION FORCES [...] (C) Summary: A newly appointed hard-line Serb CCK leader in Gjilane/Gnjilane reportedly exerted strong pressure on the parents of Serb children who were allowing their children to sing in a USOP holiday concert. The Serb children from the Gjilane area are members of Kosovo's only mixed-ethnic [...] |
2006-12-09 12:29:00 | Embassy Pristina | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL SCUL PINR KDEM YI |
| 06PRISTINA1054 |
KOSOVO: ARMED MASKED MEN REAPPEAR IN WESTERN [...] (C) SUMMARY: Repeating a pattern we saw last year, armed masked men have sporadically reappeared on the roads of western Kosovo, illegally stopping people and conducting vehicle checkpoints. In 2005, these incidents began as supposed "political statements" but quickly turned into opportuniti [...] |
2006-12-09 12:59:00 | Embassy Pristina | CONFIDENTIAL | PTER KCRM KJUS ASEC UNMIK YI |
| 06PRISTINA1055 |
KOSOVO: POST-STATUS ECONOMIC TRANSITION [...] (C) Summary. The Provisional Institutions of Self-Government and the international community have yet to develop serious contingency plans for the economic challenges confronting Kosovo immediately after the resolution of final status. The PISG has allocated only 6.5 million euros for post-s [...] |
2006-12-09 13:25:00 | Embassy Pristina | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON PGOV YI |
| 06PRISTINA1057 |
KOSOVO: RESPONSE TO NARCOTICS AND CHEMICAL [...] (U) Following is the submission from U.S. Office in Pristina for the narcotics and chemical control sections of this year's INSCR report. 2. (U) Summary. Kosovo is primarily a transit point for heroin originating in Turkey and Afghanistan and destined for Western European countries, but i [...] |
2006-12-11 10:06:00 | Embassy Pristina | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV KJUS KCRM EAID KDEM UNMIK YI |
| 06PRISTINA1058 |
KOSOVO: KOSOVO INTERNATIONAL NARCOTICS CONTROL [...] Kosovo is a disputed territory that has been governed by the United Nations (UN) since 1999. Current laws and regulations pertaining to financial crimes derive their authority from the Special Representative of the UN Secretary General. If, as expected, there is a resolution of Kosovo's fina [...] |
2006-12-11 10:10:00 | Embassy Pristina | UNCLASSIFIED | KCRM KTFN EFIN ECON YI |
| 06PRISTINA1059 |
KOSOVO: LDK CONVENTION GIVES SEJDIU NARROW VICORY [...] (C) SUMMARY: The ruling Democratic League of Kosovo (LDK) party elected Kosovo President Sejdiu as party president over former Speaker Nexhat Daci in an orderly vote at a December 9 party convention. But when Sejdiu presented his list of candidates for the party's powerful General Council, Dac [...] |
2006-12-11 11:36:00 | Embassy Pristina | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KJUS KCRM EAID KDEM UNMIK YI |
| 06PRISTINA1063 |
KOSOVO: DAS DICARLO AND EU COLLEAGUES REASSURE [...] (C) SUMMARY: DAS Rosemary DiCarlo and her European colleagues reassured Kosovo Albanians on status process timing and told Kosovo Serbs that Ahtisaari,s proposal will take into account their concerns. In private meetings with President Sejdiu, Prime Minister Ceku, Kosovo Assembly president B [...] |
2006-12-12 15:08:00 | Embassy Pristina | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KCRM UNMIK YI |
| 06PRISTINA1064 |
KOSOVO: RAIL LINE CONNECTING SOUTHERN SERB [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Kosovo Police Service (KPS) and local media reported an explosion on a railroad bridge near the town of Vushtrri on a line that serves Kosovo's Serb community. The explosion damaged tracks and temporarily disrupted rail service, but no injuries were reported. A train carrying [...] |
2006-12-12 16:42:00 | Embassy Pristina | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KJUS KCRM PTER UNMIK YI |
| 06PRISTINA1071 |
KOSOVO: COM DELIVERS STRONG MESSAGE TO KOSOVO [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: COM used the inauguration of a USAID-funded school renovation project in Serb-majority north Mitrovica to underscore the U.S. commitment to the continued presence of a vibrant Serb community in Kosovo, with full legal rights and special protections for its cultural and religio [...] |
2006-12-15 10:43:00 | Embassy Pristina | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAID KDEM PGOV SOCI PREL UNMIK YI PHUM |
| 06PRISTINA1072 |
KOSOVO: GORANI EDUCATION DISAGREEMENT ILLUSTRATES [...] (SBU) A long-simmering disagreement between Gorani leaders, Kosovar education officials, and Belgrade's Coordination Center for Kosovo and Metohija (CCK) highlights the complex situation of the Gorani, a Muslim minority who live in the southern part of Dragas municipality and speak a dialect o [...] |
2006-12-15 10:43:00 | Embassy Pristina | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAID KCRM KDEM PGOV PINR PREL SOCI YI UNMIK |
| 06PRISTINA1074 |
KOSOVO: TERRORIST LISTS [...] (SBU) Kosovo is administered by the United Nations Mission in Kosovo (UNMIK) pursuant to UN Security Council Resolution 1244. UNMIK does not keep a list of terrorist organizations. Terrorist designations must be done through Administrative Directives issued by the Special Representative of t [...] |
2006-12-15 15:24:00 | Embassy Pristina | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KTFN PGOV KJUS KCRM EAID UNMIK YI |
| 06PRISTINA1075 |
KOSOVO: ACHIEVING CONSENSUS ON ELECTIONS [...] (C) SUMMARY: Kosovo will hold central and local elections next fall under a new post-status electoral system. Results of our initial canvassing of Kosovo's political parties, elections experts and public opinion polling reveal a general consensus on the need for open lists, retention of a gen [...] |
2006-12-15 17:35:00 | Embassy Pristina | CONFIDENTIAL | KDEM PHUM PGOV EAID UNMIK YI |
| 06PRISTINA1087 |
KOSOVO: PRESIDENT SEJDIU CONSOLIDATES HOLD OVER [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: In the wake of its raucous convention ten days earlier, the ruling Democratic League of Kosovo (LDK) General Council met on December 19 and swiftly (and peacefully) elected its 25-member party presidency. The body is comprised of solid supporters of President Fatmir Sejdiu, in [...] |
2006-12-19 17:50:00 | Embassy Pristina | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KJUS KCRM EAID KDEM UNMIK YI |
| 06PRISTINA1088 |
KOSOVO: 2006 ANNUAL TERRORISM UPDATE [...] (U) The following submission provides Post's contribution to the Department's "Country Reports on Terrorism 2006." BEGIN REPORT 2. (U) The United Nations Interim Administration Mission in Kosovo (UNMIK) continues to administer Kosovo pursuant to UN Security Council Resolution 1244, and K [...] |
2006-12-20 09:01:00 | Embassy Pristina | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PTER ASEC KCRM PGOV KJUS EAID KDEM UNMIK YI |
| 06PRISTINA1091 |
KOSOVO MISSING PERSONS: OMPF REQUESTS USG FUNDING [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. UNMIK's Office of Missing Persons and Forensics (OMPF) has asked the USG to pay the salaries up to three forensic specialists to assist with ongoing exhumations, autopsies and identifications of war victims. OMPF is very concerned about the lack of local capacity to carry out [...] |
2006-12-20 16:10:00 | Embassy Pristina | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAID KCRM KDEM PGOV PINR PREL YI UNMIK SOCI |
| 06PRISTINA1095 |
KOSOVO: TRANSITION WORKING GROUPS BEGIN IN EARNEST [...] (C) SUMMARY: After a slow start, the five working groups on transition meeting since late November and bringing together representatives of UNMIK, the preparation team for the post-status International Civilian Office, U.S. representatives, and the Kosovo government have picked up their pace. [...] |
2006-12-22 12:26:00 | Embassy Pristina | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL UNMIK YI |
| 06PRISTINA1096 |
KOSOVO: WORKING GROUP ON PUBLIC OUTREACH HOLDS [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: USOP called and hosted the organizing meeting of a new Working Group on Public Outreach, created under the ICO/UNMIK/U.S./PISG transitional framework now in place. (Note: Progress on overall transition efforts are reported septel.) Representatives from the Unity Team, govern [...] |
2006-12-22 13:06:00 | Embassy Pristina | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PREL KCRM EAID KDEM UNMIK YI |
| 06PRISTINA1099 |
KOSOVO: NEW MISSING PERSONS COMMISSION NOT [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. The Kosovo Government's new missing persons commission met for the first time on December 13 to discuss its composition and competencies. While the establishment of the commission is a positive step on a political level, the government is currently unprepared to take on the h [...] |
2006-12-22 17:12:00 | Embassy Pristina | CONFIDENTIAL | KCRM KJUS PGOV PINR PREL YI UNMIK EAID PHUM |
| 06PRISTINA1100 |
KOSOVO: PISG CLOSER TO COMPLETING REMAINING CG [...] (C) SUMMARY: Kosovo's Provisional Institutions of Self-Government (PISG) are very close to finishing the five remaining priorities for Standards implementation tasked by the Contact Group (CG) in June 2006. Two more standards -- reconstruction of the Serb village of Svinjare in south Mitrovi [...] |
2006-12-22 17:30:00 | Embassy Pristina | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KJUS KCRM EAID KDEM UNMIK YI |
| 06PRISTINA1117 |
KOSOVO ASHKALI LEADERS THREATEN TO WITHDRAW FROM [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. The Pristina District Court sentenced Kosovo MP and President of the Ashkali Democratic Party of Kosovo (PDAK) Sabit Rrahmani to five months in prison for fraud. Fellow PDAK party leaders do not deny the charges, but told us that Ashkali are being targeted for prosecution, an [...] |
2006-12-28 13:44:00 | Embassy Pristina | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KCRM KDEM PGOV PINR PREL YI UNMIK EAID PHUM |
| 06PRISTINA1118 |
KOSOVO: UN SAYS KPC AND KPS WILL REMOVE ILLEGAL [...] (C) SUMMARY: PD/SRSG Schook told us on December 28 that the illegal construction within the Decani Monastery's Special Zoning Area (SZA) will be taken down in a joint KPS/KPC operation within the next 36 hours. Fr. Sava, a moderate Orthodox monk who resides at the monastery, had sought our h [...] |
2006-12-28 14:45:00 | Embassy Pristina | CONFIDENTIAL | KJUS EAID KDEM UNMIK YI PGOV |
| 06PRISTINA1121 |
KOSOVO AND MACEDONIA: THE WAY FORWARD ON BORDER [...] (U) The following is a joint cable from U.S. Office Pristina and Embassy Skopje. 2. (C) SUMMARY: When Macedonian FM Milososki visited Kosovo on November 23, he reiterated the GoM's position calling for inclusion of the demarcation of the Kosovo-Macedonia border in the UNSCR on Kosovo's fin [...] |
2006-12-29 08:30:00 | Embassy Pristina | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PBTS INR UNMIK YI KTIA |
| 06PRISTINA211 |
AHTISAARI'S KOSOVO VISIT: PROGRESS ON [...] (C) SUMMARY. The second visit to Kosovo of Martti Ahtisaari, UN Special Envoy for Kosovo Final Status Talks, focused on creating an improved political situation for Kosovo's minority populations. He demanded progress on property rights, prosecution of crimes against Kosovo Serbs, and concre [...] |
2006-03-10 09:54:00 | Embassy Pristina | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PHUM UNMIK YI |
| 06PRISTINA212 |
TEST MESSAGE - TESTING SIPDIS CAPTION [...] No summary [...] |
2006-03-10 09:59:00 | Embassy Pristina | UNCLASSIFIED | ACOA |
| 06PRISTINA216 |
KOSOVO: AGIM CEKU APPROVED AS NEW PRIME MINISTER; [...] (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 [...] |
2006-03-10 17:21:00 | Embassy Pristina | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL KDEM UNMIK YI |
| 06PRISTINA218 |
KOSOVO: AGIM CEKU APPROVED AS NEW PRIME MINISTER; [...] (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 [...] |
2006-03-10 17:21:00 | Embassy Pristina | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL KDEM UNMIK YI |
| 06PRISTINA219 |
LAST CHANCE FOR UN TO FIX KOSOVO TELECOM MARKET [...] (C) SUMMARY. UNMIK has long ruled out any reconsideration of its October 2004 annulment, on grounds of serious procedural irregularity, of the award of Kosovo's second mobile phone operating license to the Mobikos consortium. The outgoing government of Bajram Kosumi has defiantly insisted on [...] |
2006-03-10 19:26:00 | Embassy Pristina | CONFIDENTIAL | ECPS ETRD PGOV PREL YI UNMIK |
| 06PRISTINA229 |
KOSOVO: CEKU OFF TO GOOD START IN HIS FIRST DAYS [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: In his acceptance speech on March 10 and interviews over his first weekend as prime minister, former Kosovo Protection Corps (KPC) commander General Agim Ceku stressed Kosovo's future as a multiethnic state, but affirmed there can be no solution for Kosovo other than independence [...] |
2006-03-14 16:34:00 | Embassy Pristina | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL KDEM UNMIK YI |
| 06PRISTINA232 |
SCENESETTER FOR MARCH 24 VISIT OF CODEL VOINOVICH [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. Kosovo has a new, stronger government, and is starting to get serious about the compromises needed to ensure that status negotiations result in the independence they so desire. The Kosovo Albanian negotiating team has made a well-received proposal on decentralization, but need [...] |
2006-03-15 18:19:00 | Embassy Pristina | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL KCRM PGOV PINR KDEM UNMIK YI |
| 06PRISTINA240 |
KOSOVO'S NON-SERB MINORITIES LOOKING FOR MORE CLOUT [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. Kosovo's non-Serb minorities are trying to increase their role in the new Kosovo government and solidify their participation on Kosovo's delegation to status negotiations. Non-Serb minorities currently control the health ministry, fill a rotating seat in the Assembly Presidenc [...] |
2006-03-16 16:10:00 | Embassy Pristina | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL KCRM PGOV PINR KDEM UNMIK YI |
| 06PRISTINA242 |
NEW KOSOVO PRIME MINISTER ROARS OUT OF THE GATE [...] (C) SUMMARY. In two meetings this week, COM found new Kosovo Prime Minister Ceku already deeply immersed in policy and quickly getting up to speed on economic issues that demand rapid resolution. He has gained the attention of his cabinet by announcing that the tenures of all ministers will [...] |
2006-03-17 13:41:00 | Embassy Pristina | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL KCRM PGOV PINR KDEM UNMIK YI |
| 06PRISTINA245 |
PRISTINA KOSOVO TIME CHANGE TO DAYLIGHT SAVINGS [...] Pristina Kosovo's time will advance by one hour on Sunday, 26 March 2006 at 0100 GMT, 0200 local time. 2. Pristina Kosovo's time will become GMT plus 2. GURIAN [...] |
2006-03-17 15:26:00 | Embassy Pristina | UNCLASSIFIED | ACOA AMGT KRIM |
| 06PRISTINA256 |
KOSOVO: RECOMMENDATION ON TREATMENT OF ROMA LEAD [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. International community stakeholders have decided that Roma victims of lead poisoning can be safely treated at Osterode, UNMIK's temporary relocation facility. Notwithstanding the insistence of Roma leaders that their constituents will accept relocation only to their old Mitrov [...] |
2006-03-21 18:12:00 | Embassy Pristina | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREF EAID SENV PHUM UNMIK KDEM YI |
| 06PRISTINA257 |
COUNTRY CLEARANCE GRANTED TO ROLF OLSON [...] US Office Pristina welcomes and grants country clearance to PRM/ECA Program Officer, Rolf Olson to visit Pristina March 26-29, 2006. The purpose of the visit is to examine the current environment for minority returnees in Kosovo and to meet with UNHCR, NGO partners, UNMIK, and PISG officials [...] |
2006-03-22 09:04:00 | Embassy Pristina | UNCLASSIFIED | ASEC MW MONTENEGRO PREF SR YI ZL |
| 06PRISTINA259 |
KOSOVO PROTECTION CORPS TO TAKE ON GREATER [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: During their March 12-15 visit to Kosovo, Department representatives agreed to provide up to USD 110,000 in funding through the Slovene International Trust Fund for Demining and Mine Victim's Assistance (ITF) for badly-needed replacement equipment for the Kosovo Protection Corp [...] |
2006-03-22 16:22:00 | Embassy Pristina | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | MASS MARR PREL EAID PGOV UNMIK YI |
| 06PRISTINA265 |
KOSOVO: PROGRESS NEEDED ON MISSING PERSONS CASES [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. The Pristina and Belgrade delegations at the March 9 meeting of the working group on missing persons agreed that progress on the identification and return of remains from the 1999 conflict is too slow. Kosovo's delegation demanded the immediate return of the 180 remaining bodi [...] |
2006-03-24 10:05:00 | Embassy Pristina | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL KCRM PGOV PINR KDEM UNMIK YI |
| 06PRISTINA270 |
COUNTRY CLEARANCE GRANTED TO JEFFREY HOVENIER [...] US Office Pristina welcomes and grants country clearance to Jeffrey Hovenier to visit Pristina March 28-30, 2006. The purpose of the visit is to accompany Deputy Special Envoy Rohan to consult with Pristina authorities in advance of the April 3 meeting on decentralization. Point of contact is [...] |
2006-03-28 07:05:00 | Embassy Pristina | UNCLASSIFIED | OTRA ASEC YI |
| 06PRISTINA274 |
KOSOVO: POLICE TRYING TO CURB INTERETHNIC VANDALISM [...] (U) Since March 2004 no ethnic Serbs have returned to live in Zhiti/Zitinje, a village in multi-ethnic Viti/Vitina municipality in southeastern Kosovo. In September 2005 Kosovo's Provisional Institutions of Self-Government completed the reconstruction of 33 houses in Zhiti/Zininje, 29 for eth [...] |
2006-03-28 15:27:00 | Embassy Pristina | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREF PGOV PREL UNMIK YI |
| 06PRISTINA280 |
KOSOVO: SLOW GOING ON TRANSFER OF LAW ENFORCEMENT [...] (C) SUMMARY: As evidenced by the fourth meeting of the stakeholders, UNMIK is in no hurry to transfer competency to the Kosovo government for law enforcement and the European Union is even less anxious to assume UNMIK's oversight role. Since the meeting, the PISG has named ministers of internal [...] |
2006-03-29 13:44:00 | Embassy Pristina | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KJUS KCRM EAID KDEM UNMIK YI |
| 06PRISTINA282 |
RETURNS AND MISSING PERSONS FOREVER LINKED IN [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. Many ethnic Albanians from parts of Kosovo that were subjected to violent ethnic cleansing during the war do not give much thought to the return of their ethnic Serb neighbors, and they doubt that any of the Serbs want to come back. For these Albanians any reconciliation with [...] |
2006-03-29 14:52:00 | Embassy Pristina | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ICTY KCRM KDEM KJUS PGOV PREF PREL SI YI |
| 06PRISTINA283 |
COUNTRY CLEARANCE GRANTED TO DAS ROSEMARY DICARLO [...] US Office Pristina welcomes and grants country clearance to EUR DAS Rosemary A. DiCarlo and Kosovo Desk Officer Joshua Black to visit Pristina April 6 - April 8, 2006. The purpose of the visit is to attend Contact Group meetings. Control officer will be Deputy Econ/Pol Chief David Whiddon, wh [...] |
2006-03-30 08:48:00 | Embassy Pristina | UNCLASSIFIED | OTRA ASEC AMGT PREL UK AU GR YI |
| 06PRISTINA285 |
KOSOVO PRESIDENT SEJDIU REACHES OUT TO MINORITIES [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. President Fatmir Sejdiu visited Dragas/Dragash and Orahovac/Rahovec municipalities and discussed (in Serbian) standards implementation, freedom of movement, inter-ethnic relations and economic development in public meetings with minorities. He plans to make more outreach trip [...] |
2006-03-30 14:22:00 | Embassy Pristina | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL KCRM PGOV PINR KDEM UNMIK YI |
| 06PRISTINA286 |
COUNTRY CLEARANCE GRANTED TO AMBASSADOR FRANK WISNER [...] US Office Pristina welcomes and grants country clearance to Ambassador Frank G. Wisner, Special Representative of the Secretary of State to the Kosovo Status Talks, and his assistant, Stephen J. Gee, to visit Pristina April 14 - April 16, 2006. The purpose of the visit is for consultations o [...] |
2006-03-31 07:51:00 | Embassy Pristina | UNCLASSIFIED | ASEC OTRA AU GR SE AL NATO EU |
| 06PRISTINA290 |
KOSOVO SERB PUBLIC SERVANTS FORCED TO CHOOSE [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. On March 21, Belgrade-based chief of the Kosovo Coordination Center (CCK) Sanda Raskovic-Ivic told public sector Kosovo Serbs that Serbia will no longer pay salaries to employees who also receive salaries from Pristina. Many Kosovo Serbs believe that if they choose Pristina, [...] |
2006-03-31 16:42:00 | Embassy Pristina | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL KCRM PGOV PINR KDEM UNMIK YI |
| 06PRISTINA299 |
KOSOVO STANDARDS DELIVERABLE: PROPERTY RIGHTS [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. UNMIK and the Provisional Institutions of Self Government (PISG) have created the Kosovo Property Agency (KPA) as a quasi-judicial forum for resolution of private real estate disputes. The KPA will replace the Housing and Property Directorate (HPD), the independent agency that [...] |
2006-04-04 15:14:00 | Embassy Pristina | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV PHUM KDEM UNMIK YI |
| 06PRISTINA302 |
NEW KOSOVO GOVERNMENT PUSHES STANDARDS [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: New Kosovo Prime Minister Agim Ceku has produced a 91 item "to do" list for the next three months on standards implementation. UNMIK's Office of the Strategy Coordinator has drafted a complementary list of 25 standards-related action items and tasked the Provisional Institutio [...] |
2006-04-05 17:14:00 | Embassy Pristina | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL KDEM UNMIK YI |
| 06PRISTINA308 |
KOSOVO: STAKES HIGH AS LDK CHOOSES NEW LEADER [...] (C) SUMMARY. The next president of the Democratic Party of Kosovo (LDK) could reconfigure the government, the Assembly leadership, and a good part of the makeup of Kosovo's final status negotiating team. With the passing of Ibrahim Rugova, the LDK leadership has no organizational center and [...] |
2006-04-07 17:19:00 | Embassy Pristina | CONFIDENTIAL | KDEM PGOV PREL UNMIK YI |
| 06PRISTINA310 |
SCENESETTER FOR APRIL 14-15 VISIT OF SPECIAL [...] (C) SUMMARY. Coming on the heels of the April 6-7 visit of the Contact Group and the April 3 Vienna meeting on decentralization, Ambassador Wisner's April 14-15 visit presents an opportunity to push Kosovo Albanian leaders to come to closure on some decentralization issues (municipal partnersh [...] |
2006-04-10 10:40:00 | Embassy Pristina | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PHUM KDEM UNMIK YI |
| 06PRISTINA322 |
COUNTRY CLEARANCE GRANTED TO KATHERINE HELGERSON [...] US Office Pristina welcomes and grants country clearance to Katherine Helgerson to visit Pristina April 13-19, 2006. The purpose of the visit is to provide support to the Econ/Pol section. Point of contact is Econ/Pol Chief Kirk McBride, who can be reached at: office 381-38-549-516 ext. 3146; [...] |
2006-04-14 12:14:00 | Embassy Pristina | UNCLASSIFIED | OTRA ASEC YI |
| 06PRISTINA323 |
COUNTRY CLEARANCE GRANTED TO JEFFREY HOVENIER [...] US Office Pristina welcomes and grants country clearance to Jeffrey Hovenier to visit Pristina April 18-19, 2006. The purpose of the visit is to attend UNOSEK team meetings in Pristina on decentralization and minority protection issues. Point of contact is Deputy Econ/Pol Chief David Whiddon, [...] |
2006-04-14 12:15:00 | Embassy Pristina | UNCLASSIFIED | OTRA ASEC YI |
| 06PRISTINA333 |
VISIT OF SENATOR VOINOVICH TO KOSOVO [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. In meetings with Prime Minister Agim Ceku and President Fatmir Sejdiu during his March 24 visit to Kosovo, Senator George Voinovich urged the new leaders to reach out to Kosovo Serbs and to show them and leaders in Belgrade that Kosovo's government is serious about creating a K [...] |
2006-04-19 15:23:00 | Embassy Pristina | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL KCRM PGOV PINR KDEM UNMIK YI |
| 06PRISTINA335 |
KOSOVO: A UNIFIED CONTACT GROUP PRESSES STANDARDS, [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. Representatives of the Contact Group (CG) visited Kosovo April 6-7 to highlight CG unity and deliver a focused message about the importance of the standards and elements of an eventual future status settlement; by prior agreement, the CG did not address the status outcome itself. [...] |
2006-04-20 14:13:00 | Embassy Pristina | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL KDEM UNMIK YI |
| 06PRISTINA336 |
AMBASSADOR WISNER URGES KOSOVARS TO BEAR DOWN ON [...] (C) SUMMARY. During an April 14-16 visit to Kosovo, U.S. Special Representative Frank Wisner congratulated the revamped Kosovo Albanian leadership team for its serious engagement in the Vienna final status process and for its outreach to the Kosovo Serb community. He urged the team to build [...] |
2006-04-20 14:44:00 | Embassy Pristina | CONFIDENTIAL | KDEM PGOV PREL UNMIK YI |
| 06PRISTINA338 |
UNMIK FACILITATES OUTREACH TO NORTH KOSOVO SERBS [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. On April 19 UNMIK hosted the first meeting of the Mitrovica Focus Group to encourage engagement between northern Kosovo Serb leaders and the international community. The regional CCK representative, the mayors of the three northern Serb-majority municipalities and the UNMIK adv [...] |
2006-04-21 13:42:00 | Embassy Pristina | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL KCRM PGOV PINR KDEM UNMIK YI |
| 06PRISTINA339 |
KOSOVO ROMA MOVE TO LEAD-SAFE RELOCATION FACILITY, [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. Over 290 Roma from two lead-contaminated refugee camps in north Mitrovica have moved to the Osterode temporary relocation facility. All involved agree that a convalescence center to treat Roma with lead poisoning will be built there. The World Health Organization (WHO) has d [...] |
2006-04-21 14:46:00 | Embassy Pristina | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREF EAID SENV PHUM UNMIK KDEM YI |
| 06PRISTINA352 |
KOSOVO PRESIDENT SEJDIU CONTINUES MINORITY [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. On the first ever visit by a Kosovo President to Decani Monastery, President Fatmir Sejdiu toured the grounds and church on Orthodox Easter Sunday, and then discussed the protection of Kosovo's Serbian Orthodox heritage sites with Bishop Teodosije in Serbian. Other visitors in [...] |
2006-04-26 13:08:00 | Embassy Pristina | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KDEM PGOV PINR PREL SOCI YI UNMIK |
| 06PRISTINA356 |
COUNTRY CLEARANCE GRANTED TO RICHARD KAUZLARICH AND [...] US Office Pristina welcomes and grants country clearance to Richard D. Kauzlarich and Beth E. Sanner to visit Pristina April 30-May 3, 2006. The purpose of the visit is to provide temporary support to the mission. Point of contact is Deputy Econ/Pol Chief David Whiddon, who can be reached at [...] |
2006-04-27 08:48:00 | Embassy Pristina | UNCLASSIFIED | OTRA HR AMGT ASEC YI |
| 06PRISTINA363 |
KOSOVO: CEKU LAYS OUT STANDARDS PROGRAM TO AN [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. In an address to the Kosovo Assembly, Kosovo Prime Minister Agim Ceku laid out the government's progress on standards implementation. The opposition vociferously accused the government of non-fulfillment of standards and accused the government of endemic corruption. Still indi [...] |
2006-04-28 14:13:00 | Embassy Pristina | UNCLASSIFIED | KDEM PGOV PREL UNMIK YI |
| 06PRISTINA364 |
UNMIK LOOKING FOR ELUSIVE CONSENSUS ON MUNICIPAL [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. The SRSG and the OSCE head of office hosted an April 27 meeting of Kosovo political party representatives and interested international parties, including COM, to discuss whether Kosovo's municipal elections should take place in October 2006 as scheduled. Most political party p [...] |
2006-04-28 14:13:00 | Embassy Pristina | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KDEM PGOV PREL UNMIK YI |
| 06PRISTINA365 |
BERISHA LOOKING FOR THE RIGHT BALANCE IN [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: In his first several weeks as president of Kosovo's Assembly, Kole Berisha has made great progress in making it more fiscally and procedurally democratic and less autocratic. Berisha has taken public steps to distance himself from the questionable fiscal practices and domineeri [...] |
2006-04-28 14:14:00 | Embassy Pristina | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV KDEM PREL UNMIK YI |
| 06PRISTINA366 |
CONTACT GROUP DEMARCHE RESPONSE [...] (SBU) COM delivered reftel points to Contact Group (CG) heads of Pristina missions on April 28. COM's CG counterparts had been similarly instructed by their capitals. The group agreed to coordinate action with UNMIK as soon as possible following SRSG Soren Jessen-Petersen's return to Kosovo [...] |
2006-04-28 16:10:00 | Embassy Pristina | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV PHUM KDEM UNMIK YI |
| 06PRISTINA369 |
KOSOVO: TERRORISM FINANCE LIST 77 (JI-4) DELIVERED [...] (SBU) On April 28 E/P Deputy Section Chief delivered reftel talking points and background information to Robert Jordan, the new head of UNMIK's Advisory Unit on Security in the Office of the SRSG and Deputy Head Jared Rigg. Jordan promised to check the name against the Banking and Payments Au [...] |
2006-05-02 15:36:00 | Embassy Pristina | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KTFN PTER EFIN PREL CVIS KVPR KSEP YI |
| 06PRISTINA381 |
COUNTRY CLEARANCE GRANTED TO INR BALKAN ANALYST [...] US Office Pristina welcomes and grants country clearance to INR Balkan Analyst Robert Nash to visit Pristina May 18 to May 20, 2006. The purpose of the visit is to meet with host government officials and representatives of political parties and other groups on domestic and regional issues. C [...] |
2006-05-05 07:25:00 | Embassy Pristina | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | OTRA PINR SR ASEC YI |
| 06PRISTINA384 |
KOSOVO SERB POLITICIANS VIE FOR POWER IN PRISTINA; [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. After several tumultuous months, the Serbian Democratic Party -- the only Kosovo Serb party actively participating in the Kosovo government -- held an extraordinary party assembly on April 29 and re-elected Slavisa Petkovic as party president over the protests of a strong mino [...] |
2006-05-05 16:38:00 | Embassy Pristina | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KDEM PGOV PREL KCRM PINR UNMIK YI |
| 06PRISTINA391 |
COUNTRY CLEARANCE GRANTED TO KATHERINE HELGERSON [...] US Office Pristina welcomes and grants country clearance to Katherine Helgerson to visit Pristina May 9-14, 2006. The purpose of the visit is to provide support to the Econ/Pol section. Point of contact is Econ/Pol Deputy Chief David Whiddon, who can be reached at: office 381-38-549-516 ext. [...] |
2006-05-09 16:30:00 | Embassy Pristina | UNCLASSIFIED | OTRA ASEC YI |
| 06PRISTINA392 |
KOSOVO'S DRAFT LAW ON RELIGIOUS FREEDOM STILL [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. Drafted by Prime Minister Bajram Rexhepi's government in 2004, Kosovo's draft law on religious freedom remains a point of contention between the government and religious communities in Kosovo. Kosovo's Islamic Community opposes the internationally approved draft because it arg [...] |
2006-05-09 16:52:00 | Embassy Pristina | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KDEM PGOV PREL UNMIK YI |
| 06PRISTINA397 |
COUNTRY CLEARANCE GRANTED TO AMBASSADOR NULAND [...] US Office Pristina welcomes and grants country clearance to Ambassador Nuland to visit Pristina May 11, 2006. The purpose of the visit is in conjunction with an organized visit of NATO Permanent Representatives to KFOR. Point of Contact for this visit is Chief Dion Bivens, who can be reached [...] |
2006-05-10 09:57:00 | Embassy Pristina | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | AMGT NATO OTRA ASEC YI |
| 06PRISTINA410 |
BEST OF TIMES, WORST OF TIMES: KOSOVO PAST AND [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. The Democratic League of Kosovo (LDK) removed Nexhat Daci as Kosovo Assembly president on March 10, 2006, and replaced him with Kole Berisha. Both will visit the United States in the coming week. Their diametrically-opposed leadership styles engender continued criticism for Da [...] |
2006-05-12 17:18:00 | Embassy Pristina | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV KDEM PINR UNMIK YI |
| 06PRISTINA419 |
COUNTRY CLEARANCE GRANTED TO AMBASSADOR FRANK WISNER [...] US Office Pristina welcomes and grants country clearance to Ambassador Frank G. Wisner, Special Representative of the Secretary of State to the Kosovo Status Talks, and his SIPDIS assistant, Stephen J. Gee to visit Pristina May 21 - May 23, 2006. The purpose of the visit is for consultati [...] |
2006-05-16 08:03:00 | Embassy Pristina | UNCLASSIFIED | OTRA ASEC AU BU HU RO SE |
| 06PRISTINA420 |
COUNTRY CLEARANCE GRANTED TO JEFFREY HOVENIER [...] US Office Pristina welcomes and grants country clearance to Jeffrey Hovenier to visit Pristina May 17-19, 2006. The purpose of the visit is to attend UNOSEK team meetings in Pristina on decentralization and minority protection issues. Point of contact is Deputy Econ/Pol Chief David Whiddon, w [...] |
2006-05-16 11:34:00 | Embassy Pristina | UNCLASSIFIED | OTRA ASEC SR YI |
| 06PRISTINA421 |
KOSOVO: UNMIK ISSUES GENERALLY FAVORABLE TECHNICAL [...] (C) SUMMARY: UNMIK's latest formal assessment of Kosovo Government efforts to implement the Standards for Kosovo program, covering the period ending April 30, is generally favorable. The report lauds the quick initial engagement of Kosovo's new government on Standards which will provide a ba [...] |
2006-05-16 17:01:00 | Embassy Pristina | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KDEM UNMIK YI |
| 06PRISTINA425 |
FURTHER CONVERSATIONS WITH RETURNEES TO KOSOVO [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Serbs and others who have returned to Kosovo are more concerned about immediate economic prospects, security, and freedom of movement than the final status of Kosovo, though the future of the region is also a source of apprehension for some. Many Kosovo Serb returnees are midd [...] |
2006-05-17 16:59:00 | Embassy Pristina | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREF SR |
| 06PRISTINA426 |
KOSOVO: FINAL THREE PERCENT OF MARCH 2004 [...] (SBU) Most reconstruction of homes damaged in the March 2004 violence has long since been completed, albeit with some complaints about the quality of construction and frictions about the terms of reconstruction of outbuildings. Most of what has not been rebuilt is in the historic center of [...] |
2006-05-18 15:32:00 | Embassy Pristina | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL KDEM UNMIK YI PREF |
| 06PRISTINA427 |
KOSOVO: NON-SERB MINORITIES AMBIVALENT ABOUT [...] (SBU) Kosovo's non-Serb minority leaders are glad to be involved in the status negotiations in Vienna and generally pleased with the work of the Communities Consultative Council, but are concerned about what they see as Belgrade's efforts to manipulate non-Serb minority issues for its own adv [...] |
2006-05-18 15:55:00 | Embassy Pristina | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PREL PINR KDEM UNMIK YI |
| 06PRISTINA437 |
KOSOVO SCENESETTER FOR MAY 21-23 VISIT OF SPECIAL [...] (C) SUMMARY. Ambassador Wisner's visit finds Kosovo Albanian final status negotiators struggling to cope with the new shuttle phase of talks on decentralization. They are quickly learning that they are not as well prepared for the give-and-take of bargaining as they were for developing broad [...] |
2006-05-19 14:58:00 | Embassy Pristina | CONFIDENTIAL | KDEM PGOV PHUM PINR PREL YI |
| 06PRISTINA439 |
KOSOVO: COM WARNS AAK AND PDK ON INTERFERENCE IN [...] (C) Chief of Mission passed the messages contained in reftels separately to Alliance for the Future of Kosovo (AAK) president Ramush Haradinaj and Democratic Party of Kosovo (PDK) president Hashim Thaci on May 18. Haradinaj said that he had not heard of the presence of any Kosovo Albanian pol [...] |
2006-05-19 17:08:00 | Embassy Pristina | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KDEM UNMIK YI |
| 06PRISTINA448 |
RELATIONS BETWEEN DECANI MONASTERY AND LOCAL [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. In the month since SRSG Jessen-Petersen extended the controversial protection zone around Decani Monastery, relations between the Monastery and the local Kosovo Albanian community have improved. KFOR has removed the fixed checkpoint outside the monastery and replaced it with [...] |
2006-05-24 15:10:00 | Embassy Pristina | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL KCRM PGOV PINR KDEM UNMIK YI |
| 06PRISTINA449 |
KOSOVO: CHANGES IN HARADINAJ'S POLITICAL PARTY [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. Ramush Haradinaj was handily re-elected president of the party he founded, the Alliance for the Future of Kosovo (AAK), during the party's May 20 convention. Other prominent AAK members lost votes as compared with their standing at the party's last convention in 2004, namely M [...] |
2006-05-24 16:18:00 | Embassy Pristina | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL KDEM UNMIK YI |
| 06PRISTINA450 |
SCENESETTER FOR MAY 26 VISIT OF CODEL INHOFE [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. The new Kosovo government, formed in March after the death of President Ibrahim Rugova in January, is focused on status negotiations, implementation of the "Standards for Kosovo" program, and the transfer of governing competencies as UNMIK winds down its presence in Kosovo. Alt [...] |
2006-05-24 18:44:00 | Embassy Pristina | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL KCRM PGOV PINR KDEM UNMIK YI |
| 06PRISTINA457 |
AMBASSADOR WISNER TELLS KOSOVO ALBANIANS THEIR [...] (C) SUMMARY. During a May 21-23 visit to Kosovo, Special Representative Frank Wisner starkly disabused Kosovo Albanian leaders of any notion that Kosovo independence can be considered a foregone conclusion. In plain-speaking meetings, Ambassador Wisner told the president, prime minister, and [...] |
2006-05-26 15:32:00 | Embassy Pristina | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KDEM UNMIK YI |
| 06PRISTINA461 |
KOSOVO: ICTY DEFENSE TEAM VISIT TO MASSACRE SITE [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. The unannounced visit of two Serbian ICTY defense lawyers to a rural village that was the site of a 1999 Serb-on-Albanian massacre caused an uproar among village residents, virtually all of whom are relatives of the victims. Kosovo Albanians blocked the main village road and s [...] |
2006-05-30 06:29:00 | Embassy Pristina | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL KCRM PGOV PINR KDEM UNMIK YI |
| 06PRISTINA472 |
COUNTRY CLEARANCE GRANTED TO MARTIN MORELL [...] US Office Pristina welcomes and grants country clearance to Martin Morell to visit Pristina June 12-16, 2006. The purpose of the visit is to evaluate technical assistance projects in the telecom sector. Point of contact is Economics Officer Shante Moore, who can be reached at: office 381-38- [...] |
2006-05-31 10:15:00 | Embassy Pristina | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID OTRA USTA YI SB MW MK BU |
| 06PRISTINA473 |
COUNTRY CLEARANCE GRANTED TO STEPHEN SINNOTT AND [...] US Office Pristina welcomes and grants country clearance to United States Attorney Stephen Sinnott and Assistant United States Attorney John Vauldreuil to visit Pristina June 2 -3 and June 8-9, 2006. The purpose of the visit is to meet with RLA Sarah Lum and to host trial advocacy skills work [...] |
2006-05-31 14:49:00 | Embassy Pristina | UNCLASSIFIED | OTRA ASEC YI |
| 06PRISTINA480 |
FUNDING FOR MISSING PERSONS AND FORENSICS IN KOSOVO [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. As the recent confrontation between police and families of the missing in Krushe e Vogel/Mala Krusa demonstrates, missing persons remains a volatile issue in Kosovo (Ref A). The USG has helped fund both UNMIK's Office of Missing Persons and Forensics (OMPF) and the Kosovo oper [...] |
2006-06-05 16:45:00 | Embassy Pristina | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL KCRM PGOV PINR KDEM UNMIK YI |
| 06PRISTINA481 |
KOSOVO: EU FINALLY GETTING SERIOUS ABOUT KOSOVO [...] (C) SUMMARY: The European Union has developed a draft discussion paper for an International Civilian Mission in Kosovo (ICM) that would form the basis for implementation of the final status settlement. The plan calls for a much smaller footprint than UNMIK's current presence, and places heav [...] |
2006-06-06 13:23:00 | Embassy Pristina | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL UNMIK YI |
| 06PRISTINA484 |
KOSOVO SERB HARDLINERS CALL FOR SELF DEFENSE [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. According to the OSCE, 500-700 people participated in a June 5 demonstration in Zvecan against recent acts of violence against Kosovo Serbs. Local leaders announced a resolution by the Zvecan municipal assembly to end contact with the Kosovo government until the crimes are s [...] |
2006-06-06 16:38:00 | Embassy Pristina | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL KCRM PGOV PINR KDEM UNMIK YI |
| 06PRISTINA491 |
KOSOVO: PM CEKU ALREADY AT WORK ON CONTACT GROUP [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: During a June 8 meeting with Contact Group (CG) heads of mission in Pristina, Kosovo Prime Minister Agim Ceku received the 13 points of priorities for standards implementation as something that will help the Kosovo government focus its current efforts, not as criticism of its e [...] |
2006-06-08 16:59:00 | Embassy Pristina | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL KDEM PREF UNMIK YI |
| 06PRISTINA493 |
KOSOVO: ASSEMBLY LEADERSHIP REVEALS [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. The Kosovo Assembly formally unveiled a new work plan on June 7 designed to improve procedural and budgetary transparency. International advisors, including USAID, have been very involved in the development of this plan and heads of diplomatic liaison offices, including COM, p [...] |
2006-06-09 14:52:00 | Embassy Pristina | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL KDEM UNMIK YI |
| 06PRISTINA495 |
RIFT WIDENS BETWEEN HARD-LINE AND MODERATE SERBIAN [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. Ever since moderate Bishop Teodosije welcomed Kosovo President Sejdiu to Decani Monastery on Orthodox Easter, the rift between Teodosije and hard-line Bishop Artemije has widened. After the visit, Artemije blasted Teodosije in the media, and the hardline Serbian National Coun [...] |
2006-06-09 17:07:00 | Embassy Pristina | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL KCRM PGOV PINR SOCI KIRF KDEM UNMIK YI |
| 06PRISTINA498 |
UNMIK HEAD OF MISSION RESIGNS [...] (C) SUMMARY: Soren Jessen-Petersen has resigned as Kosovo's Special Representative of the Secretary General (SRSG) and head of the U.N. Mission in Kosovo (UNMIK), effective June 30. Principal Deputy SRSG (PDSRSG) Steven Schook will become acting SRSG if a replacement is not in place by the e [...] |
2006-06-12 17:08:00 | Embassy Pristina | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KDEM UNMIK YI |
| 06PRISTINA506 |
KOSOVO: SPECIAL ENVOY AHTISAARI HOPES TO BEGIN [...] (C) SUMMARY: UN Special Envoy for Kosovo Status Talks Martti Ahtisaari told Contact Group (CG) liaison office heads on June 10 that he expects to brief the UNSC in early July and then hopes to host the first direct talks between senior Pristina and Belgrade officials the week of July 17. He [...] |
2006-06-13 15:26:00 | Embassy Pristina | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KDEM UNMIK YI |
| 06PRISTINA507 |
KOSOVO: PROTOCOL ON RETURN WITH SERBIA SIGNED AND [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: After almost two years of negotiations, the Provisional Institutions of Self Government in Kosovo (PISG), the Government of Serbia and UNMIK signed a Protocol on Voluntary and Sustainable Return on June 6, 2006. UNMIK pressed hard to get the protocol signed before SRSG Soren J [...] |
2006-06-13 16:01:00 | Embassy Pristina | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREF PGOV PREL UNMIK YI |
| 06PRISTINA513 |
KOSOVO: THACI OK WITH ELECTION DELAY IF HIS PARTY [...] (C) SUMMARY. Hashim Thaci, the head of the opposition Democratic Party of Kosovo (PDK), met on June 9 with heads of Contact Group diplomatic liaison offices in Pristina. He outlined his thoughts on what he called the failure of the current government to accomplish its domestic tasks, in part [...] |
2006-06-15 15:26:00 | Embassy Pristina | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KDEM UNMIK YI |
| 06PRISTINA518 |
SECURITY HEIGHTENED IN NORTH AFTER SERB [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. Municipal assemblies in all three of Kosovo's northern Serb-majority municipalities have passed resolutions calling for a cessation of existing minimal ties with the central government in Pristina. The resolutions express dissatisfaction with the Kosovo Police Service (KPS) a [...] |
2006-06-16 17:08:00 | Embassy Pristina | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PREL KCRM PGOV PINR KDEM UNMIK YI |
| 06PRISTINA519 |
KOSOVO: KFOR RE-ESTABLISHES PERMANENT PRESENCE [...] (C) SUMMARY: On June 13 the French contingent in charge of Multi-National Task Force-North (MNTF-N) reactivated a former Belgian KFOR camp in the northern Kosovo municipality of Leposavic. The camp will be manned by different national contingents on two-week rotations, beginning with the Fren [...] |
2006-06-16 17:34:00 | Embassy Pristina | CONFIDENTIAL | MARR PREL PGOV UNMIK YI |
| 06PRISTINA520 |
KOSOVO: BAD POLL NUMBERS FOR THACI SIGNAL REQUEST [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. A new public opinion poll of non-Serb Kosovars suggests plummeting popularity for opposition leaders Hashim Thaci and his Democratic Party of Kosovo (PDK). The poll, taken by a nominally apolitical local consulting company, was issued days before Thaci made a rare request for [...] |
2006-06-16 17:40:00 | Embassy Pristina | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL KDEM UNMIK YI |
| 06PRISTINA525 |
KOSOVO: UNMIK POSTPONES MUNICIPAL ELECTIONS [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. Outgoing SRSG Soren Jessen-Petersen announced June 17 his decision to postpone municipal elections scheduled for this autumn for a period not to exceed twelve months. Jessen-Petersen's decision provides that elections cannot be held earlier than three months or later than six [...] |
2006-06-19 13:59:00 | Embassy Pristina | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PREL KDEM UNMIK YI |
| 06PRISTINA531 |
KOSOVO: KOSOVO SERB MODERATES FLOAT [...] (C) SUMMARY. Moderate Kosovo Serb politicians, led by Oliver Ivanovic, are floating a decentralization plan calling for seven new Serb-majority municipalities and the enlargement of an eighth. Briefing Contact Group representatives on June 16, Ivanovic said his plan differs from the proposal [...] |
2006-06-20 17:04:00 | Embassy Pristina | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KDEM UNMIK YI |
| 06PRISTINA532 |
SALI BERISHA TELLS KOSOVO ALBANIANS TO RECONCILE [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: During an emotional June 15-17 visit to Kosovo, Albanian Prime Minister Sali Berisha reiterated his support for Kosovo's independence, voiced his confidence in Kosovo's current leadership and asked Kosovo Albanians to reconcile with Serbs. He also attempted to mend fences with [...] |
2006-06-20 17:40:00 | Embassy Pristina | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL KDEM PREF UNMIK YI |
| 06PRISTINA534 |
KOSOVO: VIOLENT DEATH OF ELDERLY SERB RAISES FEAR [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. An elderly Kosovo Serb returnee was found dead on June 20 from a gunshot wound to the head in western Kosovo's Klina municipality. Police tell us informally that the path of the bullet (entry through the front of the neck and exit through the top of the head) would ordinarily [...] |
2006-06-21 18:37:00 | Embassy Pristina | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KCRM PREF PREL PGOV PINR SCUL UNMIK YI |
| 06PRISTINA538 |
KOSOVO'S NEW AUDITOR GENERAL OFF TO A GOOD START [...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified; protect accordingly. 2. (SBU) Summary. Since arriving in February 2006, Kosovo Auditor General Linda Casella has produced six complete audits on Kosovo municipalities and other institutions. She was assaulted and severely beaten in downtown Pristina shortly [...] |
2006-06-22 16:47:00 | Embassy Pristina | UNCLASSIFIED | EFIN ECON YI |
| 06PRISTINA539 |
KOSOVO'S NEXT UN ADMINISTRATOR: THACI WEIGHS IN [...] (C) SUMMARY. Opposition party leader Hashim Thaci requested a meeting June 19 with COM to convey his concern that current UNMIK economic pillar head, Joachim Rucker, is rumored as a leading candidate to fill the Special Representative of the Secretary General (SRSG) position from which curren [...] |
2006-06-22 17:01:00 | Embassy Pristina | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KDEM UNMIK YI |
| 06PRISTINA545 |
KOSOVO: PISG AND WORLD BANK AGREE ON A WAY FORWARD [...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified; protect accordingly. 2. (SBU) Summary. The Provisional Institutions of Self- Government (PISG) and the international community, led by the World Bank, have reached agreement on a way forward for development of Kosovo's energy sector. The parties have resolv [...] |
2006-06-23 09:55:00 | Embassy Pristina | UNCLASSIFIED | ENRG ECON EFIN EINV PREL YI |
| 06PRISTINA547 |
KOSOVO SERBS: A SUCCESS STORY AND TWO PLEAS [...] No summary [...] |
2006-06-23 11:57:00 | Embassy Pristina | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREF SR |
| 06PRISTINA549 |
KOSOVO MINORITIES: RURAL POVERTY AND A [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Many Serbs and other minority members who either returned to or stayed put in rural areas of Kosovo after the end of the conflict in June 1999 or the ethnic riots in March 2004 live marginally. Their immediate preoccupation is their livelihoods. Determination of Kosovo's final [...] |
2006-06-23 14:53:00 | Embassy Pristina | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREF SR YI |
| 06PRISTINA554 |
KOSOVO: CONTROVERSY CONTINUES OVER ICTY VISIT; [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. Several widows from the Krushe e Vogel/Mala Krusa massacre say they first assisted a visiting UN convoy on May 25, but then grew suspicious when the convoy showed interest in the local Serb graveyard and the homes of former Serb residents. One widow expressed no remorse over [...] |
2006-06-27 16:03:00 | Embassy Pristina | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAID KCRM KDEM KJUS PGOV PINR PREL YI UNMIK |
| 06PRISTINA561 |
KOSOVO: ASSEMBLY AUDIT REVEALS FISCAL MALFEASANCE [...] (C) SUMMARY. An external audit of the Kosovo Assembly's budget under former Speaker Nexhat Daci has revealed serious fiscal irregularities. The audit states that Daci and his Assembly staff used Assembly finances for expensive armored vehicles, a convention/conference center in a suburb of P [...] |
2006-06-29 15:24:00 | Embassy Pristina | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KCOR KDEM PREL UNMIK YI |
| 06PRISTINA564 |
KOSTUNICA VISIT TO KOSOVO SPARKS ONLY ISOLATED [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. Serbian Prime Minister Vojislav Kostunica visited Gracanica monastery in Kosovo on June 28 to commemorate Vidovdan. Despite receiving UNMIK permission to visit Kosovo only for personal, religious reasons, Kostunica used the opportunity to make a provocative speech in which he [...] |
2006-06-29 16:30:00 | Embassy Pristina | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL KCRM PGOV PINR KDEM UNMIK YI |
| 06PRISTINA567 |
KOSOVO: PM CEKU UP-BEAT ON FULFILLMENT OF [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Prime Minister Agim Ceku gave Contact Group representatives a largely positive interim report June 27 on progress on the 13 priorities for standards implementation delivered to Kosovo's Provisional Institutions of Self-Governance (PISG) on June 8 (reftel). While the report sho [...] |
2006-06-30 17:03:00 | Embassy Pristina | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL KDEM PREF UNMIK YI |
| 06PRISTINA574 |
COUNTRY CLEARANCE GRANTED TO JOSHUA BLACK [...] US Office Pristina welcomes and grants country clearance to Kosovo Desk Officer Joshua Black to visit Pristina July 4 - 7, 2006. The purpose of the visit is to accompany UN Deputy Special Envoy for Kosovo Status, Albert Rohan. Point of contact is Political Office Officer David Whiddon, who c [...] |
2006-07-06 10:24:00 | Embassy Pristina | UNCLASSIFIED | OTRA SR |
| 06PRISTINA575 |
NORTH MITROVICA LEADERS CLARIFY MUNICIPAL [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. Two influential Kosovo Serbs from north Mitrovica clarified recent declarations issued by Kosovo's three northern Serb-majority municipalities and the Mitrovica advisory board ostensibly cutting off ties with the government in Pristina. UNMIK representatives say the declarati [...] |
2006-07-07 13:55:00 | Embassy Pristina | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL KCRM PGOV PINR KDEM UNMIK YI PREF |
| 06PRISTINA576 |
KOSOVO: NEGOTIATION TEAM RECEPTIVE TO POST-UNMIK [...] (C) SUMMARY: In response to an invitation from President Fatmir Sejdiu, COM and Torbjorn Sohlstrom, the head of the EU mission in Kosovo, briefed the Kosovo negotiating team July 5 on initial thinking on a post-status, post-UNMIK international civilian mission. They stressed that any future [...] |
2006-07-07 16:27:00 | Embassy Pristina | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KDEM UNMIK YI |
| 06PRISTINA579 |
COUNTRY CLEARANCE GRANTED TO GONZALEZ, WALDRON AND KAHRS [...] US Office Pristina welcomes and grants country clearance to Biographic Officer Ana-Christina Gonzalez and Political Officers Brooke Waldron and Susan Kahrs to visit Pristina July 15-19, 2006. The purpose of the visit is to consult with and debrief USOP officials regarding key government and op [...] |
2006-07-10 12:23:00 | Embassy Pristina | UNCLASSIFIED | PINR OTRA SR |
| 06PRISTINA584 |
SERBIA REPATRIATES FINAL SETS OF HUMAN REMAINS TO [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. In an emotional handover on June 30, Serbia repatriated to Kosovo the final sets of human remains found in known mass grave sites in Serbia. UNMIK's Office of Missing Persons and Forensics (OMPF) is now working to perform autopsies on the remains and return the few that were i [...] |
2006-07-11 17:52:00 | Embassy Pristina | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL KCRM PGOV PINR KDEM UNMIK YI KJUS EAID |
| 06PRISTINA587 |
TENSIONS BUILDING OVER NORTHERN KOSOVO [...] (C) SUMMARY. As all concerned enter the Kosovo final status home stretch, the north of Kosovo is increasingly coming into focus as the area where preferred status outcomes potentially collide. UNMIK officials say they have credible reports that Kosovo Serbs in the north are attempting to rei [...] |
2006-07-12 18:32:00 | Embassy Pristina | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KDEM UNMIK YI |
| 06PRISTINA598 |
NORTHERN KOSOVO SERB MAYORS NOT MASTERS OF THEIR [...] (C) SUMMARY. The mayor of the Serb-majority northern Kosovo municipality of Zvecan insisted to USOP that his decision to cut ties with the Kosovo Government was a reasonable expression of frustration with the failure of the Kosovo police to solve crimes against Serbs. The mayors of the other [...] |
2006-07-17 17:36:00 | Embassy Pristina | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PREL KCRM PGOV PINR KDEM UNMIK YI |
| 06PRISTINA599 |
KOSOVO: ACTING SRSG PUSHES BELGRADE/WHO ON [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. Although medication is on hand, medical personnel have been trained, and construction of a clinic has been completed, treatment of Mitrovica-area Roma acutely ill with lead poisoning has not begun. The World Health Organization (WHO) has been waiting for more than three month [...] |
2006-07-17 18:50:00 | Embassy Pristina | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREF EAID SENV PHUM UNMIK KDEM YI |
| 06PRISTINA600 |
KOSOVO: PISG PROGRESS ON CG STANDARDS PRIORITIES [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Kosovo's Provisional Institutions of Self Government (PISG) continue to make progress on fulfilling the Contact Group's 13 priorities for standards implementation. Prime Minister Agim Ceku announced July 11 that two of the 13 had already been fulfilled and the PISG completed ano [...] |
2006-07-17 18:50:00 | Embassy Pristina | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PREL KDEM UNMIK YI |
| 06PRISTINA608 |
KOSOVO MISSING PERSONS FORENSICS HAMPERED BY LACK [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. UNMIK's Office of Missing Persons and Forensics (OMPF) is faces severe staffing and funding shortages which are hampering its ability to resolve cases of missing persons. Despite fewer leads on potential new grave sites, OMPF is still very busy with a few ongoing exhumations [...] |
2006-07-19 18:00:00 | Embassy Pristina | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL KCRM PGOV PINR KDEM UNMIK YI KJUS EAID |
| 06PRISTINA609 |
KOSOVO: REVIEWS OF PM CEKU'S FIRST 100 DAYS [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. The first 100 days of the government of Kosovo Prime Minister Ceku have been on balance very successful. Ceku has focused his personal attention on Standards-related portfolios -- outreach to minorities, minority-focused legislation, property rights, security -- given priority [...] |
2006-07-19 18:01:00 | Embassy Pristina | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PREL KDEM UNMIK YI |
| 06PRISTINA611 |
KOSOVO: DETAILS OF SLKM PROPOSAL ON [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Oliver Ivanovic views his Serbian List for Kosovo and Metohija (SLKM) plan for seven new Serb-majority municipalities and the enlargement of an eight existing municipality (Novo Brdo) as a bridge between the current proposals on new municipalities by the Serbian and Kosovo gove [...] |
2006-07-20 16:49:00 | Embassy Pristina | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL KDEM UNMIK YI |
| 06PRISTINA612 |
COUNTRY CLEARANCE GRANTED TO AMBASSADOR FRANK WISNER AND [...] US Office Pristina welcomes and grants country clearance to Ambassador Frank G. Wisner, Special Representative of the Secretary of State to the Kosovo Status Talks, and Political Officer, Stephen J. Gee to visit Pristina July 26 - July 28, 2006. The purpose of the visit is for consultations [...] |
2006-07-21 12:08:00 | Embassy Pristina | UNCLASSIFIED | ASEC OTRA AU GR SE AL NATO EU |
| 06PRISTINA614 |
MODERATE KOSOVO CHURCH LEADERS, UNOSEK AND [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. Father Sava told PolOff that he personally supports UNOSEK proposals for the protection of cultural heritage. He said the Serbian Orthodox Church (SOC), however, cannot support the proposals publicly so long as the government in Belgrade continues to oppose them. Sava critic [...] |
2006-07-21 16:40:00 | Embassy Pristina | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL KCRM PGOV PINR KDEM UNMIK YI |
| 06PRISTINA617 |
KOSOVO SCENESETTER FOR JULY 26-28 VISIT OF SPECIAL [...] (C) SUMMARY. Ambassador Wisner's visit, following almost immediately on the so-called Elephants' Meeting between Serbian and Kosovar senior leaders, will present an opportunity to help shape the approach of Kosovo Albanian leaders to what they expect will be the culmination of the final status [...] |
2006-07-24 17:30:00 | Embassy Pristina | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL KCRM PGOV PHUM UNMIK YI |
| 06PRISTINA630 |
KOSOVO: PM CEKU VISITS THE NORTH [...] (C) SUMMARY: During a July 22 visit to majority ethnic Serb municipalities in northern Kosovo, Prime Minister Agim Ceku declared that northern Mitrovica "is and will always be a part of Kosovo." He also requested that KFOR and UNMIK "insulate this region politically and practically from Serb [...] |
2006-07-28 15:42:00 | Embassy Pristina | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL ETTC UNMIK YI |
| 06PRISTINA631 |
KOSOVO: PROTEST OVER VIENNA NEGOTIATIONS FIZZLES [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. Only around 250-300 protesters showed up for a July 24 demonstration in Pristina called by Albin Kurti, the activist leader of the Self-Determination Movement (SDM), against participation by Kosovo government officials that same day in final status negotiations in Vienna with s [...] |
2006-07-28 16:06:00 | Embassy Pristina | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PREL KDEM UNMIK YI |
| 06PRISTINA637 |
KOSOVO: UNMIK BELIEVES UK HOLDS INFORMATION TO [...] (C/NF) Summary: The UN in Kosovo believes that the British SIS has in its possession of 700-page report with information that could lead to the conviction of four suspects in the murder of Serb civilians in 2001. UNMIK,s Department of Justice has asked the UK Office to make the report availa [...] |
2006-08-01 15:45:00 | Embassy Pristina | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KDEM UNMIK YI |
| 06PRISTINA639 |
COM URGES MODERATE KOSOVO SERB LEADERS TO ENGAGE [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. During introductory meetings with moderate Kosovo Serb leaders Oliver Ivanovic, Bishop Teodosije and Father Sava, COM echoed recent comments by Ambassador Wisner about the importance of active and direct engagement in status negotiations during the coming weeks. Ivanovic, Teod [...] |
2006-08-02 16:22:00 | Embassy Pristina | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL KCRM PGOV PINR KDEM UNMIK YI |
| 06PRISTINA640 |
WISNER TO KOSOVARS: SIX WEEKS TO COME TO CLOSURE [...] (C) SUMMARY: In separate meetings on July 27 with President Fatmir Sejdiu and the entire Kosovo negotiating team, U.S. Special Representative for the Kosovo Status Talks Ambassador Frank Wisner stressed the need to stay unified and to use the next six weeks to bring Kosovar Albanian negotiati [...] |
2006-08-02 16:29:00 | Embassy Pristina | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KDEM UNMIK YI |
| 06PRISTINA645 |
KOSOVO: CONTACT GROUP MESSAGE TO PRISTINA WELL [...] (C) SUMMARY: Keeping to the language worked out in Contact Group capitals, COM led other CG representatives (along with the heads of the local EU and European Commission missions) in a demarche on the Kosovo negotiating team (the "Unity Team") on the results of the July 24 high-level meeting [...] |
2006-08-04 13:44:00 | Embassy Pristina | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KDEM UNMIK YI |
| 06PRISTINA647 |
MODERATE OLIVER IVANOVIC CLAIMS TO BE LAUNCHING [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. Moderate Kosovo Serb leader Oliver Ivanovic has filed papers with the OSCE to establish a new political party and has requested funding for a new NGO designed to reduce the influence of Belgrade political parties on Kosovo Serbs. However, his new party is a local branch of a [...] |
2006-08-04 15:23:00 | Embassy Pristina | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL KCRM PGOV PINR KDEM UNMIK YI |
| 06PRISTINA648 |
KOSOVO: CHIEF OF MISSION STRESSES IMPORTANCE OF [...] (C) SUMMARY: In her initial calls on Kosovo's leaders, COM urged them to stay united and not let personal differences interfere with their seriousness of purpose in the Vienna status negotiations. President Fatmir Sejdiu vented his frustration at the antics of opposition leaders on the negot [...] |
2006-08-04 16:27:00 | Embassy Pristina | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KDEM UNMIK YI |
| 06PRISTINA653 |
KOSOVO: SERB RELUCTANCE TO RETURN TO SVINJARE [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The return of Serbs to the village of Svinjare is more complex than the rebuilding of houses destroyed and damaged by ethnic Albanians in the riots of March 2004. The rebuilding/repair effort is underway, though according to the UNMIK office that advises the Kosovo Protection [...] |
2006-08-08 12:04:00 | Embassy Pristina | UNCLASSIFIED | PREF PGOV PREL UNMIK YI |
| 06PRISTINA658 |
COUNTRY CLEARANCE GRANTED TO DEMIAN SMITH [...] US Office Pristina welcomes and grants country clearance to Demian Smith to visit Pristina August 14-17, 2006. The purpose of the visit is for meetings with local officials. Control Officer is Political Officer Heidi Barrachina, who can be reached at: office 381-38-549-516 ext. 3104; GSM 377 [...] |
2006-08-09 17:05:00 | Embassy Pristina | UNCLASSIFIED | OTRA PREL AMGT ASEC SR YI |
| 06PRISTINA659 |
COUNTRY CLEARANCE GRANTED TO KATHERINE HELGERSON [...] US Office Pristina welcomes and grants country clearance to Katherine Helgerson to visit Pristina August 10-20, 2006. The purpose of the visit is to provide support to the Econ/Pol section. Point of contact is Econ/Pol Deputy Chief David Whiddon, who can be reached at: office 381-38-549-516 e [...] |
2006-08-09 17:06:00 | Embassy Pristina | UNCLASSIFIED | OTRA ASEC YI |
| 06PRISTINA660 |
COUNTRY CLEARANCE GRANTED TO BRAD BELL [...] US Office Pristina welcomes and grants country clearance to Brad Bell to visit Pristina August 13-16, 2006. The purpose of the visit is to have introductory meetings with USOP, UNMIK, KFOR, and PISG officials. Control Officer is Political Officer Carrie Shirtz, who can be reached at: office [...] |
2006-08-09 17:06:00 | Embassy Pristina | UNCLASSIFIED | OTRA ASEC YI |
| 06PRISTINA661 |
KOSOVO: LDK ASSERTS PRIMARY POSITION IN GOVERNMENT [...] (C) SUMMARY. A July 6 letter sent by the LDK party presidency to Kosovo Prime Minister Agim Ceku continues to make news over a week after its existence was leaked to the press. The key issues in the letter were the assertion by the LDK that the party -- and not Ceku -- would have authority o [...] |
2006-08-10 09:00:00 | Embassy Pristina | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KDEM UNMIK YI |
| 06PRISTINA663 |
KOSOVO: SERBIAN ORTHODOX CHURCH IN BABIN MOST [...] (SBU) On August 6, the priest in the ethnic-Serb majority village of Babin Most (Obiliq/Obilic municipality) reported that unknown perpetrators vandalized and robbed his church. He said that several icons were damaged or stolen, along with 800 euros in church funds. On August 6 the Acting Chi [...] |
2006-08-11 09:00:00 | Embassy Pristina | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL KCRM PGOV PINR KDEM UNMIK YI PHUM KRIF |
| 06PRISTINA664 |
KOSOVO: COM TO UNITY TEAM MEMBERS: TIME'S UP [...] (C) Summary: COM met individually with members of Kosovo's Unity Team (UT) August 9-11 to lay down a direct and unambiguous marker: the time is now to come to closure with UN Special Envoy for Kosovo Marti Ahtisaari on the issues of decentralization and minority rights. COM underscored USG [...] |
2006-08-11 15:51:00 | Embassy Pristina | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KDEM UNMIK DPKO YI |
| 06PRISTINA674 |
KOSOVO: PM CEKU UPBEAT ON COMPLETION OF CG [...] (C) SUMMARY: Prime Minister Agim Ceku told heads of mission from the Contact Group (CG), EU and EC liaison offices August 15 that the Kosovo government has completed five of the CG's 13 priorities for Standards implementation and is on track to finish the remaining eight by October. He asses [...] |
2006-08-17 15:49:00 | Embassy Pristina | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KPKO UNMIK YI |
| 06PRISTINA680 |
AMENDED COUNTRY CLEARANCE GRANTED TO BRAD BELL [...] US Office Pristina welcomes and grants country clearance to Brad Bell to visit Pristina August 20-26, 2006. The purpose of the visit is to have introductory meetings with USOP, UNMIK, KFOR, and PISG officials. Control Officer is Political Officer Tracey Thornton, who can be reached at: offic [...] |
2006-08-18 17:29:00 | Embassy Pristina | UNCLASSIFIED | OTRA AMGT ASEC YI |
| 06PRISTINA681 |
COUNTRY CLEARANCE GRANTED TO ANNA MORAWIEC MANFIELD [...] US Office Pristina welcomes and grants country clearance to Anna Morawiec Mansfield to visit Pristina August 20-23, 2006. The purpose of the visit is to attend meetings related to the Kosovo status negotiations. Control Officer is Political Officer Tracey Thornton, who can be reached at: off [...] |
2006-08-18 17:30:00 | Embassy Pristina | UNCLASSIFIED | OTRA AMGT AU YI |
| 06PRISTINA689 |
KOSOVO: COM URGES NORTHERN MAYORS TO STAY ENGAGED, [...] (C) Summary: COM travelled to northern Kosovo August 18 to meet with the mayors of the three predominantly Serb municipalities and utilize press opportunities to convey the benefits of the decentralization process to Serb residents of the north. All three mayors were definitive in rejecting a [...] |
2006-08-22 12:42:00 | Embassy Pristina | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KDEM UNMIK DPKO YI |
| 06PRISTINA709 |
KOSOVO: SWIFT RESPONSE BY UNMIK AND KFOR CALMS [...] (C) Summary: Swift action by UNMIK, KFOR, and the Kosovo Police Service prevented an escalation of violence following an August 26 grenade attack on a well-known cafe frequented by hard-line Serbs in north Mitrovica. Nine people sustained injuries, though none life-threatening, in the attack [...] |
2006-08-29 18:35:00 | Embassy Pristina | CONFIDENTIAL | ASEC KPKO PGOV PHUM KJUS PY |
| 06PRISTINA725 |
KOSOVO: UNITY TEAM BRIEFS KOSOVO ASSEMBLY ON [...] (U) SUMMARY: Unity Team (UT) members briefed the Kosovo Assembly in an open, televised session on the ongoing final status negotiations. The presentation was generally well received by MPs, although some expressed opposition to negotiated independence. Late distribution of the UT's material [...] |
2006-09-01 17:55:00 | Embassy Pristina | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PREL KDEM UNMIK YI |
| 06PRISTINA726 |
KOSOVO: SERB LEADERS CLOSE THEIR EYES TO [...] (C) SUMMARY. Kosovo Serb leaders, particularly in the north, are abundantly aware that the likeliest outcome of the status process is independence. Nevertheless, they continue to deny that a status decision will apply to them. Some express hard-line views on secession and violence if indep [...] |
2006-09-01 18:08:00 | Embassy Pristina | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL KCRM PGOV PINR KDEM UNMIK YI |
| 06PRISTINA727 |
KOSOVO: EU RULE OF LAW PLANNING PROGRESSING, BUT [...] (C) SUMMARY: Casper Klynge, head of the EU Planning Team (EUPT), told us recently he is grappling with mixed messages from Brussels and EU capitals on his follow-on rule of law mission's size and scope. Brussels favors a limited footprint, while capitals increasingly argue for a more operatio [...] |
2006-09-02 10:32:00 | Embassy Pristina | CONFIDENTIAL | EAID ETTC KCRM PREL YI UNMIK DPKO |
| 06PRISTINA728 |
KOSOVO: UNMIK KPC COORDINATOR OFFERS THOUGHTS ON [...] (C) SUMMARY: UNMIK Kosovo Protection Corps (KPC) Coordinator Major General Chris Steirn (UK) offered COM his thoughts on the future establishment of a Kosovo defense force in a meeting September 1. Not surprisingly, Steirn argued that a future Kosovo security force was needed, both to avoid [...] |
2006-09-02 13:44:00 | Embassy Pristina | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KDEM UNMIK YI |
| 06PRISTINA729 |
KOSOVO: CONSTITUTION DRAFTING AND ELECTIONS TIMING [...] (C) SUMMARY. Discussion has begun, both locally and in UNOSEK and Contact Group venues, on the important post-status issues of constitution drafting and timing of elections. UN Special Envoy Ahtisaari expressed to COM and EU reps in Pristina his view that the constitution must be drafted with [...] |
2006-09-02 14:17:00 | Embassy Pristina | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KDEM UNMIK YI |
| 06PRISTINA734 |
KOSOVO: PRESIDENT SEJDIU NOMINATED FOR POSITION OF [...] (C) SUMMARY: After a fast moving series of events over the Labor Day weekend, the influential presidency of the Democratic League of Kosovo (LDK), Kosovo's largest party, decided September 5 to nominate President Fatmir Sejdiu as its candidate for the position of party president. Sejdiu is [...] |
2006-09-05 20:02:00 | Embassy Pristina | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL UNMIK YI |
| 06PRISTINA736 |
KOSOVO: INCREASED VOLUME OF ALBANIAN ATTACKS ON [...] (C) SUMMARY: The recent appearance of the Kosovo negotiating team before the Kosovo Assembly and public criticism of key elements of the final status talks have resulted in protests against decentralization in the affected municipalities, as well as attacks by political "pundits" in the media [...] |
2006-09-06 17:38:00 | Embassy Pristina | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KDEM UNMIK YI |
| 06PRISTINA742 |
COUNTRY CLEARANCE GRANTED TO HALLBERG, DUDLEY AND MEGES [...] US Office Pristina welcomes and grants country clearance to Political Officers Kent B. Hallberg and Mark Dudley and Economic Officer Daniel Meges to visit Pristina September 10-13, 2006. The purpose of the visit is to consult with USOP officials. Point of contact is Political Officer David W [...] |
2006-09-08 09:17:00 | Embassy Pristina | UNCLASSIFIED | PINR OTRA SR |
| 06PRISTINA748 |
KOSOVO: SCENESETTER FOR SEPTEMBER 13-14 VISIT OF [...] (C) SUMMARY: With the Unity Team still fractious and a growing tide of public criticism against the decentralization provisions of the UNOSEK plan, we are anticipating a rough political season in advance of the eventual status decision. What would normally have been a heated debate over the m [...] |
2006-09-09 12:15:00 | Embassy Pristina | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL UNMIK YI |
| 06PRISTINA762 |
COUNTRY CLEARANCE GRANTED TO FSN DUBRAVKO BOLSEC [...] US Office Pristina welcomes and grants country clearance to S/WCI staff member Dubravko Bolsec to visit Pristina September 15 - September 17, 2006. The purpose of the visit is to accompany Ambassador-at-Large Clint Williamson on consultations with mission, host government and international of [...] |
2006-09-12 14:53:00 | Embassy Pristina | UNCLASSIFIED | OTRA KJUS KAWC SR MW AL AU HR |
| 06PRISTINA763 |
COUNTRY CLEARANCE GRANTED TO VINCENT CARVER [...] US Office Pristina welcomes and grants country clearance to Vincent Carver to visit Pristina September 12 - September 14, 2006. The purpose of the visit is to attend the September 13 coordination meeting chaired by DAS DiCarlo. Point of contact will be Political Officer, David Whiddon, who can [...] |
2006-09-12 14:53:00 | Embassy Pristina | UNCLASSIFIED | OTRA EUN |
| 06PRISTINA764 |
COUNTRY CLEARANCE GRANTED TO AMBASSADOR AT LARGE CLING [...] US Office Pristina welcomes and grants country clearance to Ambassador-at-Large for War Crimes Issues Clint Williamson and Special Assistant Matthew Lavine to visit Pristina September 15 - September 17, 2006. The purpose of the visit is for consultations with mission, host government and inte [...] |
2006-09-12 14:54:00 | Embassy Pristina | UNCLASSIFIED | OTRA KJUS KAWC SR MW AL AU NL HR |
| 06PRISTINA765 |
KOSOVO: SCENESETTER FOR VISIT OF AMBASSADOR AT [...] (C) SUMMARY: Kosovo is in an important transition period with a decision on final status looming and the EU poised to assume UNMIK's Rule of Law (RoL) mission. Ambassador Williamson's September 15-17 visit offers a good opportunity to review current prosecution efforts and to shape the EU's a [...] |
2006-09-12 16:53:00 | Embassy Pristina | SECRET | PGOV PREL KDEM UNMIK YI |
| 06PRISTINA766 |
KOSOVO: SOUTHERN SERB MUNICALITY OF STRPCE [...] (C) SUMMARY. Kosovo Serb leaders of Strpce municipality complain that despite running "the only real multi-ethnic municipality in Kosovo," their efforts are severely hampered by dwindling resources from Pristina. While admitting that they also receive financial transfers from Belgrade, these [...] |
2006-09-12 16:53:00 | Embassy Pristina | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL KCRM PGOV PINR KDEM UNMIK YI |
| 06PRISTINA777 |
COUNTRY CLEARANCE GRANTED TO KATHERINE HELGERSON [...] US Office Pristina welcomes and grants country clearance to Katherine Helgerson to visit Pristina September 17-24, 2006. The purpose of the visit is to provide support to the Econ/Pol section. Point of contact is Econ/Pol Deputy Chief David Whiddon, who can be reached at: office 381-38-549-51 [...] |
2006-09-15 16:01:00 | Embassy Pristina | UNCLASSIFIED | OTRA ASEC YI |
| 06PRISTINA778 |
COUNTRY CLEARANCE GRANTED TO EXBS ASSESSMENT TEAM, SEPT [...] US Office Pristina welcomes and grants country clearance to EXBS Assessment Team, Paul Van Son, Jason McClellen and Jim Kelly to visit Pristina September 18 - September 22, 2006. The purpose of the visit is to discuss possible areas of cooperation with the USOP and key UNMIK ministries. Point [...] |
2006-09-15 16:01:00 | Embassy Pristina | UNCLASSIFIED | PARM PREL ETT YI MIK |
| 06PRISTINA779 |
KOSOVO: STANDARDS IMPLEMENTATION PROCEEDS, BUT [...] (C) SUMMARY: The Kosovo government claims to have fulfilled nine of the Contact Group's 13 priorities for Standards implementation. Our estimate is lower, though overall implementation has moved forward. We can expect that progress on the remaining outstanding priorities will be slower as t [...] |
2006-09-16 09:49:00 | Embassy Pristina | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KDEM UNMIK YI |
| 06PRISTINA780 |
KOSOVO: ORDINARY SERBS IN KOSOVO'S NORTH SAY THEY [...] (C) SUMMARY: Kosovo,s Serbs face an existential question: stay on in post-status Kosovo or start over somewhere else. USOP officers traveled recently to Zvecan in northern Kosovo to try to gauge the views of ordinary Serbs. Most of our interlocutors predicted that Serbs would flee en masse i [...] |
2006-09-16 09:57:00 | Embassy Pristina | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KDEM UNMIK YI |
| 06PRISTINA781 |
KOSOVO: TURKISH LANGUAGE LAW MOTION REJECTED BY [...] (C) SUMMARY: A motion to make Turkish an official language of Prizren municipality and change the population requirement for official languages from 6% to 5% was rejected September 14 in a 48-41 vote of the Kosovo Assembly. Though Assembly votes are anonymous, all signs indicate the majority [...] |
2006-09-16 15:44:00 | Embassy Pristina | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PINR PHUM KDEM UNMIK YI |
| 06PRISTINA782 |
KOSOVO MISSING PERSONS DIALOGUE: SLOW PROGRESS [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. Families of the missing gathered in Pristina and Gracanica on August 30 to commemorate the International Day of Missing Persons, protest lack of progress in resolving cases and bring public attention to the almost 2,300 persons still missing from the Kosovo conflict. Although [...] |
2006-09-18 12:24:00 | Embassy Pristina | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL KCRM PGOV PINR KDEM UNMIK YI |
| 06PRISTINA788 |
KOSOVO: WHY A SPEEDY RESOLUTION OF STATUS MATTERS [...] (C) Having read Embassy Belgrade's excellent cable (reftel) on the compelling reasons to stick to the planned timetable for resolution of Kosovo's status, we wanted to offer a few thoughts from the Pristina perspective on why a status decision this year remains critical to our objectives of s [...] |
2006-09-19 06:57:00 | Embassy Pristina | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL UNMIK YI |
| 06PRISTINA795 |
COUNTRY CLEARANCE GRANTED TO JOSEPH PAONESSA AND ERIC [...] US Office Pristina welcomes and grants country clearance to Joseph Paonessa, Chief Inspector, U.S. Marshal Service, and Eric Seidel, Assistant District Attorney to visit Pristina September 22 through October 1, 2006. The purpose of the visit is to perform a one week witness protection assessm [...] |
2006-09-21 07:59:00 | Embassy Pristina | UNCLASSIFIED | OTRA ASEC YI |
| 06PRISTINA802 |
KOSOVO: SCENESETTER FOR SEPTEMBER 26-28 VISIT OF [...] (C) SUMMARY: The successful September 20 Contact Group ministerial with Secretary Rice at the helm was viewed here as further indication that the U.S. government will press for a timetable that delivers a status determination by the end of 2006. This remains the sole and almost obsessive foc [...] |
2006-09-22 11:53:00 | Embassy Pristina | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL UNMIK YI |
| 06PRISTINA803 |
KOSOVO: SMALL NEW SERB PARTY DARES TO POSIT A [...] (C) SUMMARY. The newly-formed Autonomous Liberal Party (SLS) seeks to represent Kosovo Serbs who want to stay and integrate into Kosovo institutions and society, regardless of the outcome of the status process. Party President Slobodan Petrovic told us the SLS is more concerned with the impa [...] |
2006-09-22 14:46:00 | Embassy Pristina | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL KCRM PGOV PINR KDEM UNMIK YI |
| 06PRISTINA804 |
KOSOVO: ASSEMBLY FINALLY PASSES TURKISH LANGUAGE [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The Kosovo Assembly passed an amendment to the Law on Languages making Turkish an official language in Prizren. After initially rejecting the measure on September 14 due to infighting within the ruling Democratic League of Kosovo (LDK) party, the LDK got its house in order (at l [...] |
2006-09-22 16:17:00 | Embassy Pristina | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KJUS KCRM EAID KDEM UNMIK YI |
| 06PRISTINA808 |
KOSOVO: DAS DICARLO AND EU REP LEHNE BRIEF ON ICO, [...] (C) SUMMARY: In Pristina September 12-14, EUR DAS Rosemary DiCarlo and EU rep Stefan Lehne briefed Kosovo Albanian and Serb leaders on the International Civilian Office (ICO) that will be established to supervise implementation of the status settlement. DiCarlo and Lehne underscored that plann [...] |
2006-09-26 08:07:00 | Embassy Pristina | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PREL KDEM UNMIK YI |
| 06PRISTINA811 |
COUNTRY CLEARANCE GRANTED TO JOHN ERATH, EUR/SCE DEPUTY DIRECTOR [...] US Office Pristina welcomes and grants country clearance to EUR/SCE Deputy Director for Kosovo John Erath to visit Pristina September 28-30, 2006. The purpose of the visit is for consultations with US Office Pristina staff and with local and international officials. Point of contact is Polit [...] |
2006-09-26 14:31:00 | Embassy Pristina | UNCLASSIFIED | ASEC OTRA PREL EUN AU SE NATO US |
| 06PRISTINA813 |
KOSOVO: AMB. WILLIAMSON URGES COOPERATION AND [...] (U) SUMMARY: In meetings with both international and Kosovar actors in the justice and political sectors, Ambassador-at-Large for War Crimes Issues Clint Williamson stressed the need for continued Kosovar and international focus on addressing outstanding war crimes cases. In a two-day visit [...] |
2006-09-27 09:04:00 | Embassy Pristina | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KDEM UNMIK YI |
| 06PRISTINA822 |
COUNTRY CLEARANCE GRANTED TO VINCENT CARVER [...] US Office Pristina welcomes and grants country clearance to USEU Political Officer Vincent Carver to visit Pristina October 2-December 15, 2006. The purpose of the visit is to participate in the international civilian office planning. Point of contact is Deputy Chief Political Officer David [...] |
2006-09-29 14:12:00 | Embassy Pristina | UNCLASSIFIED | ASEC EUN |
| 06PRISTINA833 |
KOSOVO: A/S FRIED PRESSES KOSOVO LEADERS TO [...] (C) SUMMARY: In Pristina September 26-28, EUR A/S Fried met separately with PM Ceku, President Sejdiu and the Unity Team and assured them of the USG's seriousness in pursuing the status process to its logical end, but stressed that the Kosovar Albanian leadership must show itself worthy of in [...] |
2006-10-02 18:29:00 | Embassy Pristina | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KDEM UNMIK YI |
| 06PRISTINA836 |
KOSOVO: DACI CAMP CAMPAIGNING HARD FOR LDK [...] (C) SUMMARY: Former Kosovo Assembly Speaker Nexhat Daci is waging an aggressive early campaign to become president of the Democratic League of Kosovo (LDK). There are indications that Daci or his supporters may be using intimidation tactics to wrest control of the party at the grass roots lev [...] |
2006-10-03 16:55:00 | Embassy Pristina | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM KCRM UNMIK YI |
| 06PRISTINA842 |
KOSOVO: COM TELLS GJILAN OFFICIALS TO END THE [...] (C) SUMMARY: COM condemned recent violence and urged support for decentralization in a meeting with Gjilan municipal officials from four political parties. She also delivered a message to the fractious ruling LDK party in Gjilan to stop its unhelpful (and violent) infighting. The Albanian [...] |
2006-10-04 18:32:00 | Embassy Pristina | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KCRM KDEM UNMIK YI |
| 06PRISTINA843 |
COUNTRY CLEARANCE GRANTED TO THOMAS C KEENAN AND AARON B [...] US Office Pristina welcomes and grants country clearance to Political Officers Thomas C. Keenan and Aaron B. Schoenewolf to visit Pristina October 2-7, 2006. The purpose of the visit is for consultations with mission officials. Point of contact is Pol/Econ Deputy Chief David Whiddon, who can [...] |
2006-10-06 08:52:00 | Embassy Pristina | UNCLASSIFIED | OTRA HR AMGT YI |
| 06PRISTINA846 |
KOSOVO: PM CEKU "LOOKING TOWARDS STATUS" WHILE [...] (C) SUMMARY: Kosovo Prime Minister Agim Ceku briefed Pristina liaison office heads October 5 on his plans over the next several months for managing Kosovo Albanians' expectations for, and Kosovo Serbs' fear of, final status. Ceku said that implementation of Standards for Kosovo, particularly [...] |
2006-10-06 16:07:00 | Embassy Pristina | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL UNMIK YI |
| 06PRISTINA847 |
KOSOVO: COM URGES CALM, CAUTION AMONG KOSOVAR [...] (C) With rumors swirling of a delay in the status process and statements by EU High Representative Solana and UN Special Envoy Ahtisaari appearing to confirm these speculations, COM counseled calm among Kosovar Albanian leaders the week of October 2. Meeting with the Prime Minister, the parl [...] |
2006-10-08 11:27:00 | Embassy Pristina | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL UNMIK YI |
| 06PRISTINA853 |
FERIZAJ LEADERS AGREE TO REPAIR ROOF ON VANDALIZED [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. On October 6 Ferizaj/Urosevac Municipal leaders promised visiting poloff and a U.S. sergeant involved in civil-military operations in the area that they would pay for the August theft of the copper roof of the St. Uros church. (The thief, who was apprehended shortly after the [...] |
2006-10-10 14:33:00 | Embassy Pristina | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL KCRM PGOV PINR KDEM UNMIK YI |
| 06PRISTINA854 |
KOSOVO: UNMIK STILL WAIVERING ON THREE-MONTH [...] (C) SUMMARY: At the October 4 meeting of the Steering Group for Future International Arrangements, UNMIK presented a "work in progress non-paper" (forwarded to EUR/SCE) with timelines for transition and identifying an action office for many of the items. According to various UNMIK representa [...] |
2006-10-10 16:13:00 | Embassy Pristina | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KJUS KCRM EAID KDEM UNMIK YI |
| 06PRISTINA856 |
COUNTRY CLEARANCE GRANTED TO EUR/SCE DIRECTOR CHRISTOPHER [...] US Office Pristina welcomes and grants country clearance to Office of South Central Europe Affairs Director Christopher Hoh to visit Pristina October 14 - October 16, 2006. The purpose of the visit is for consultations with post and host country officials. Point of contact will be Political O [...] |
2006-10-11 14:56:00 | Embassy Pristina | UNCLASSIFIED | AMGT OTRA MK AL SR |
| 06PRISTINA858 |
COUNTRY CLEARANCE GRANTED TO DOROTHY MAYHEW, OCT 15-18, [...] US Office Pristina welcomes and grants country clearance to Office of Country Assistance Officer Dorothy Rogers Mayhew to visit Pristina October 15 - October 18, 2006. The purpose of the visit is to provide country assistance training and to attend the Justice Sector Assistance Review of FY07 [...] |
2006-10-13 09:37:00 | Embassy Pristina | UNCLASSIFIED | OTRA AL SR |
| 06PRISTINA861 |
COUNTRY CLEARANCE GRANTED TO LINDA SAMUEL, OCT 14-18, [...] US Office Pristina welcomes and grants country clearance to Linda Samuel, Deputy Chief of the Asset Forfeiture and Money Laundering Section Department of Justice, to visit Pristina October 14 - October 18, 2006. The purpose of the visit is to hold roundtable at Assembly on best practices in a [...] |
2006-10-13 16:40:00 | Embassy Pristina | UNCLASSIFIED | OTRA AL SR |
| 06PRISTINA862 |
KOSOVO: SERB ORTHODOX BISHOP TEODOSIJE EXPRESSES [...] (C) SUMMARY: COM met October 12 with Bishop Teodisije, the moderate Serb religious leader of Decani monastery, who feared that Kosovo Serbs in the enclaves in south were not prepared for final status. Teodosije asked that the international community do everything possible to encourage and en [...] |
2006-10-13 17:07:00 | Embassy Pristina | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KJUS KCRM EAID KDEM UNMIK YI |
| 06PRISTINA863 |
KOSOVO: KOSOVO PROPERTY AGENCY BOARD MEETING [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: At an October 10 meeting of the five-member supervisory board of the Kosovo Property Agency (KPA), which includes USOP, KPA head Knut Rosandhaug confirmed that the rental property scheme by which illegal Albanian occupants pay rent to Serb owners had begun on October 2. Rosand [...] |
2006-10-13 17:14:00 | Embassy Pristina | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV KJUS KCRM EAID KDEM UNMIK YI |
| 06PRISTINA875 |
COUNTRY CLEARANCE GRANTED TO AMBASSADOR FRANK WISNER, MRS. [...] US Office Pristina welcomes and grants country clearance to Ambassador Frank G. Wisner, Special Representative of the Secretary of State to the Kosovo Status Talks, his wife, Mrs. Christine Marie Wisner, and his assistant, Stephen J. Gee to visit Pristina October 24 - October 26, 2006. The pu [...] |
2006-10-20 12:59:00 | Embassy Pristina | UNCLASSIFIED | ASEC OTRA AU CR FI PREL SR |
| 06PRISTINA881 |
SUPPORT FOR KOSOVO'S SOUTHERN SERBS [...] (C) SUMMARY: Ensuring that the Serb community can remain and prosper in Kosovo is a key Mission goal and a vital test of Kosovo's commitment to multi-ethnic democracy. The Serb minority in Kosovo is not monolithic; those who live in the northern municipalities of Leposavic, Zubin Potok and [...] |
2006-10-21 12:43:00 | Embassy Pristina | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KJUS KCRM EAID KDEM UNMIK YI |
| 06PRISTINA882 |
COUNTRY CLEARANCE GRANTED TO OPIC OFFICERS MARY BOOMGARD [...] US Office Pristina welcomes and grants country clearance to Ms. Mary Boomgard, Director of the Environmental Group and Mr. Joseph Wozniak, International Economist, Office of Investment Policy with the Overseas Private Investment Corporation to visit Pristina November 6 - November 8, 2006. The [...] |
2006-10-24 09:19:00 | Embassy Pristina | UNCLASSIFIED | EINV OTRA OPIC XB XC XE |
| 06PRISTINA905 |
KOSOVO: REFERENDUM ON SERB CONSTITUTION PROCEEDS [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Polling in the October 28-29 referendum on the new Serbian constitution proceeded peacefully throughout Kosovo. The Belgrade-based Center for Free Elections and Democracy (CESID) reported after the polls closed that 90,036 voters in Kosovo (90.1 percent of the estimated 101,546 [...] |
2006-10-30 11:59:00 | Embassy Pristina | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PGOV KDEM PREL UNMIK YI |
| 06PRISTINA906 |
KOSOVO: LDK REFUSAL TO DEBATE ASSEMBLY AUDIT [...] (C) SUMMARY: The ruling LDK party's refusal on October 27 to discuss an audit report highly critical of former Assembly Speaker Nexhat Daci caused the opposition to walk out of the Assembly and boycott further participation until the issue was resolved. The problem started when LDK Assembly c [...] |
2006-10-30 14:38:00 | Embassy Pristina | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KJUS KCRM EAID KDEM UNMIK YI |
| 06PRISTINA909 |
KOSOVO: EUR/SCE DIRECTOR HOH PRESSES KOSOVAR [...] (C) SUMMARY: Visiting EUR/SCE Office Director Chris Hoh reassured anxious Kosovo Albanian leaders that the USG still supports resolution of Kosovo's final status by the end of the year, but asked them to help manage expectations within the population if Special Envoy Martti Ahtisaari decides a [...] |
2006-10-30 16:32:00 | Embassy Pristina | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KDEM UNMIK YI |
| 06PRISTINA912 |
COUNTRY CLEARANCE GRANTED TO CODEL DREIER, NOVEMBER 23, [...] US Office Pristina welcomes and grants country clearance to Representative David Dreier, Chairman - House Rules Committee, Brad Smith, Professional Staff Member and LTC Paul Kennedy, Lead Military Planner, to visit Pristina November 23, 2006. The purpose of the visit is to conduct meetings wi [...] |
2006-10-31 10:33:00 | Embassy Pristina | UNCLASSIFIED | OREP AMGT ASEC AFIN MIK YI PK AF FI |
| 06PRISTINA913 |
COUNTRY CLEARANCE GRANTED TO GAIL ROBERTSON, NOVEMBER 1-8, [...] US Office Pristina welcomes and grants country clearance to INL Program Manager Gail S. Robertson to visit Pristina November 1-8, 2006. The purpose of the visit is to conduct interviews for contingent command staff and meet with U.S. and UNMIK officers. Control Officer for this visit will be [...] |
2006-10-31 10:40:00 | Embassy Pristina | UNCLASSIFIED | OTRA UN KCRM |
| 06PRISTINA921 |
KOSOVO: AMB. WISNER REAFFIRMS U.S. RESOLVE ON [...] (C) SUMMARY: In Kosovo October 24-26, U.S. Special Envoy Ambassador Frank Wisner delivered a three-part message to the top political leadership: maintain unity through and beyond final status; let the Kosovar people know now what lies ahead; and make certain the machinery of government is in [...] |
2006-11-03 07:11:00 | Embassy Pristina | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KJUS KCRM EAID KDEM UNMIK YI |
| 06PRISTINA923 |
KOSOVO: KPC DEMINING CAPACITY IS IMPROVING, [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: There is room for optimism as the 2006 demining season draws to a close. Despite earlier criticism by the international de-mining NGO, HALO Trust, of the demining capabilities of the Kosovo Protection Corps (KPC), an August 2006 study by the International Centre for Humanitari [...] |
2006-11-03 14:44:00 | Embassy Pristina | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KJUS KCRM EAID KDEM UNMIK YI |
| 06PRISTINA924 |
KOSOVO: KOSOVO SERB PROPOSES ALL-SERB ASSEMBLY, [...] (C) SUMMARY. Apart from his work as owner and director of TV Mir, former Kosovo Serb politician Nenad Radosavljevic has suggested several mechanisms that he says will ensure that Kosovo Serbs can effectively participate in post-status institutions. In a recent meeting with USOP, he proposed [...] |
2006-11-03 14:52:00 | Embassy Pristina | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PREL KCRM PGOV PINR KDEM PREF UNMIK YI |
| 06PRISTINA930 |
KOSOVO: LDK INTERNAL BATTLE PORTENDS CONTINUING [...] (C) Summary: The internal LDK struggle for power between two factions continues, with the process of party elections now in full swing. Though former Assembly speaker Nexhat Daci appeared to take the early momentum with low-level party victories in eastern Kosovo, the LDK "old guard" under K [...] |
2006-11-06 12:34:00 | Embassy Pristina | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL UNMIK YI |
| 06PRISTINA933 |
KOSOVO: OPPOSITION RETURNS TO ASSEMBLY AFTER AUDIT [...] (C) SUMMARY: After repeated intercession by USOP, the opposition returned to the Kosovo Assembly after a one-week boycott, as the ruling LDK party finally got its house in order and agreed to discuss the Auditor General's fact-finding report on mismanagement under former Assembly Speaker Nexh [...] |
2006-11-06 16:27:00 | Embassy Pristina | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KJUS KCRM EAID KDEM UNMIK YI |
| 06PRISTINA947 |
KOSOVO: UNMIK GETTING OUT OF THE RETURNS BUSINESS [...] (C) SUMMARY: Unlike the rest of UNMIK, which is planning its departure without undue haste, the Office for Communities, Returns and Minorities (OCRM) hopes to transfer all of its competencies except for responsibility for forced returns by the end of the year, a very positive development in o [...] |
2006-11-11 13:20:00 | Embassy Pristina | CONFIDENTIAL | PREF PGOV EAID PREL UNMIK YI |
| 06PRISTINA948 |
KOSOVO: PLANNING FOR POSSIBLE SERB REFUGEE [...] (C) SUMMARY: Since the leak to Serbian media in May 2006 of UNHCR's draft contingency planning on possible population movements after a decision on Kosovo's final status, UNHCR has continued to refine its thinking. Planning assumptions vary wildly, with estimates ranging from 10,000 to 112,00 [...] |
2006-11-11 13:24:00 | Embassy Pristina | CONFIDENTIAL | PREF EAID PREL UNMIK YI |
| 06PRISTINA951 |
COUNTRY CLEARANCE GRANTED TO MICHAEL LATHAM AND ARBEN GEGA [...] US Office Pristina welcomes and grants country clearance to Economic Officer Mr. Michael Latham and Commercial Assistant Arben Gega to visit Pristina November 14, 2006. The purpose of the visit is to attend the grand opening of a Macedonian financed facility in Xerxe, Rahovec. Control Office [...] |
2006-11-13 10:18:00 | Embassy Pristina | UNCLASSIFIED | OTRA ASEC AMGT |
| 06PRISTINA952 |
KOSOVO: KOSOVAR ALBANIAN LEADERSHIP ACCEPTS DELAY [...] (C) Summary: Though apprehensive about the political repercussions of a delay in the status process, Kosovar Albanian leaders represented in the Unity Team (the negotiating team participating in Vienna negotiations) uniformly accepted the announcement by UN Special Envoy Ahtisaari that his p [...] |
2006-11-13 10:40:00 | Embassy Pristina | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL UNMIK YI |
| 06PRISTINA954 |
COUNTRY CLEARANCE GRANTED TO KAYLYN KVOCHAK [...] US Office Pristina welcomes and grants country clearance to Political Section Intern, Kaylyn Kvochak to visit Pristina November 13-17, 2006. The purpose of the visit is to consult with U.S. Office, to meet with UNHCR and selected return related organizations, and to conduct site visits, parti [...] |
2006-11-13 13:18:00 | Embassy Pristina | UNCLASSIFIED | OTRA ASEC PREF |
| 06PRISTINA957 |
COUNTRY CLEARANCE GRANTED TO FRANCISCO D. SAINZ NOVEMBER [...] US Office Pristina welcomes and grants country clearance to South Central European Affairs (EUR/SCE) Principal Deputy Director Francisco D. Sainz to visit Pristina November 19-22, 2006. The purpose of the visit is to meet with USOP officers. Control Officer for this visit will be Economic Of [...] |
2006-11-13 15:45:00 | Embassy Pristina | UNCLASSIFIED | OTRA AMGT |
| 06PRISTINA965 |
KOSOVO: EVOLVING EU POLICE AND JUSTICE PLANNING [...] (C) Summary: The emerging outlines of the EU police and justice plan for post-status Kosovo make it apparent that security and law enforcement in Kosovo will be conducted on a fundamentally different basis after the settlement than under UNMIK administration. EU planning is painfully slow an [...] |
2006-11-14 18:30:00 | Embassy Pristina | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL UNMIK YI |
| 06PRISTINA967 |
KOSOVO: SEJDIU AHEAD IN THE HOME STRETCH [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: With all local branch elections now complete, Kosovo President Fatmir Sejdiu has a comfortable majority of delegates to be elected president of the ruling Democratic League of Kosovo (LDK). Sejdiu's chief rival, disgraced former Assembly Speaker Nexhat Daci, trails by a wide m [...] |
2006-11-14 18:46:00 | Embassy Pristina | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KJUS KCRM EAID KDEM UNMIK YI |
| 06PRISTINA971 |
KOSOVO: MAYORS PRESSED TO ACCEPT DECENTRALIZATION [...] (C) SUMMARY: COM hosted a November 14 meeting of her Contact Group colleagues, joined by EU and EC reps, with mayors of 10 major Kosovo cities to emphasize the centrality of decentralization in the final status settlement. She urged them as key players in this process to implement decentrali [...] |
2006-11-15 18:10:00 | Embassy Pristina | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KJUS KCRM EAID KDEM UNMIK YI |
| 06PRISTINA972 |
KOSOVO: KICKING THE CONTACT GROUP'S [...] (C) SUMMARY: The head of the Kosovo Property Agency (KPA) gave us updated statistics on the KPA's rental property scheme and enforcement of property claims pending implementation -- two of the 13 Contact Group priority standards. Some 361 properties out of a total of approximately 5,400 admi [...] |
2006-11-15 18:16:00 | Embassy Pristina | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KJUS KCRM EAID KDEM UNMIK YI |
| 06PRISTINA973 |
KOSOVO: TRAFFICKING IN PERSONS REMAINS A PROBLEM, [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Trafficking in persons (TIP) continues to plague Kosovo, but UNMIK and the Provisional Institutions of Self-Government (PISG) have taken some important steps to combat it, including undercover police operations, adoption of a two-year action plan to combat trafficking in human [...] |
2006-11-16 06:33:00 | Embassy Pristina | CONFIDENTIAL | GTIP KJUS KCRM PGOV UNMIK YI |
| 06PRISTINA977 |
COUNTRY CLEARANCE GRANTED TO AMBASSADOR JAMES P. CAIN AND [...] US Office Pristina welcomes and grants country clearance to Ambassador James P. Cain and Embassy Copenhagen Army Attach LTC Michael Schleicher to visit Pristina November 29, 2006. The visit is part of a multinational ambassadorial delegation invited by the government of Denmark to review Dani [...] |
2006-11-17 09:54:00 | Embassy Pristina | UNCLASSIFIED | OTRA AMGT DA YI |
| 06PRISTINA985 |
KOSOVO: BELGRADE'S COORDINATION CENTER VIEWED [...] (C) SUMMARY. Several prominent Kosovo Serbs shared with us their disdain for the Coordination Center for Kosovo and Metohija (CCK), the Serbian state institution established ostensibly to take care of their needs. Moderates and hardliners alike called the CCK a "money laundering" operation, [...] |
2006-11-20 14:09:00 | Embassy Pristina | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL KCRM PGOV PINR KDEM UNMIK YI |
| 06PRISTINA989 |
KOSOVO: CONTROVERSIAL AND WEALTHY EXPAT FORMS NEW [...] (C) SUMMARY: Bexhet Pacolli's Alliance for a New Kosovo (AKR) recently held its first convention in Pristina, evolving from a U.S.-based lobbying group for Kosovo independence into a registered political party. Pacolli, a wealthy Kosovar Albanian who lives in Switzerland, has plastered the K [...] |
2006-11-20 14:36:00 | Embassy Pristina | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KCRM EAID KDEM INR YI |
| 07PRISTINA100 |
COUNTRY CLEARANCE GRANTED TO KATRINA MOSSER [...] US Office Pristina welcomes and grants country clearance to Political Officer Katrina Mosser to visit Pristina February 8-9, 2007. Control Officer for this visit will be Political Officer, AJ Rei-Perrine, who can be reached at: office 381-38-549-516 ext. 3195; GSM 377-44-500-972; fax 381-38- [...] |
2007-02-07 08:09:00 | Embassy Pristina | UNCLASSIFIED | OTRA ASEC AMGT |
| 07PRISTINA102 |
COUNTRY CLEARANCE GRANTED TO CODEL LIEBERMAN [...] US Office Pristina welcomes and grants country clearance to the congressional delegation, led by Senator Joseph I. Lieberman, to visit Pristina February 9, 2007. The purpose of this visit is to hold meetings with Kosovo officials and KFOR leadership. Control Officer for this visit will be De [...] |
2007-02-07 13:24:00 | Embassy Pristina | UNCLASSIFIED | OREP AMGT ASEC AFIN GM YI CA |
| 07PRISTINA103 |
COUNTRY CLEARANCE GRANTED TO BRAD BELL [...] US Office Pristina welcomes and grants country clearance to U.S. Liaison to UNOSEK Brad Bell to visit Pristina February 8-10, 2007. The purpose of this visit is meetings with the Unity Team and USOP regard the Ahtisaari proposal. Control Officer for this visit will be Political/Economic Chief [...] |
2007-02-07 14:36:00 | Embassy Pristina | UNCLASSIFIED | OTRA ASEC UNMIK SR |
| 07PRISTINA104 |
KOSOVO: AMB. WISNER DELIVERS STRONG MESSAGE OF [...] (C) SUMMARY: USG Special Envoy for Kosovo Status Amb. Frank Wisner, in Pristina February 4-5, told the Kosovo Albanian leadership, Kosovo Serb leaders, Assembly MPs, and the media that the Ahtisaari final status package is good for Kosovo and should be strongly supported. He received a posit [...] |
2007-02-07 14:56:00 | Embassy Pristina | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KJUS KCRM EAID KDEM UNMIK YI |
| 07PRISTINA108 |
KOSOVO: DELEGATION FOR EXBS CONFERENCE IN [...] (SBU) Kosovo will send a delegation to the Eighth International Export Control Conference in Bucharest March 6-8, 2006. Given Kosovo's unique status as a UN-administered territory, the delegation will be led by an international United Nations Interim Mission in Kosovo (UNMIK) representative, [...] |
2007-02-09 14:34:00 | Embassy Pristina | UNCLASSIFIED | ETTC KSTC PARM PREL RO PGOV KJUS KCRM EAID |
| 07PRISTINA112 |
KOSOVO: "SELF-DETERMINATION MOVEMENT" PROTEST [...] (C) Summary: A planned protest by radical "Self-Determination" Movement members in Pristina February 10 turned deadly when two protestors were killed as a result of police efforts to block demonstrators from reaching and ransacking key Kosovo government buildings. Order was restored within [...] |
2007-02-12 10:41:00 | Embassy Pristina | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL UNMIK YI |
| 07PRISTINA113 |
KOSOVO: FOLLOW-ON RULE OF LAW MISSION TAKING SHAPE [...] (C) SUMMARY: The EU Planning Team (EUPT) continues to develop plans for the ESDP follow-on rule of law mission in Kosovo. Team leader Casper Klynge told us recently he is confident that the transition will be relatively smooth on the policing side and that the mission will be at authorized s [...] |
2007-02-12 11:01:00 | Embassy Pristina | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KJUS KCRM EAID KDEM UNMIK YI |
| 07PRISTINA114 |
KOSOVO: UNMIK/PISG SELECT KOSMOCELL CONSORTIUM FOR [...] (C) SUMMARY: The Kosovo Telecommunications Regulatory Authority announced local consortium Kosmocell, which included American companies Computer Science Corporation and the Omni Group, as the winner of the second mobile telephone tender. UNMIK officials said the selection of Kosmocell was c [...] |
2007-02-12 11:06:00 | Embassy Pristina | CONFIDENTIAL | ECPS ECON PREL YI |
| 07PRISTINA115 |
KOSOVO: THE IMPORTANCE OF OPEN VOTING IN THE [...] (C) SUMMARY: As we have seen in recent high-profile Kosovo Assembly deliberations, the use of secret ballots combined with weak party discipline and back-bencher discontent has greatly complicated our ability to get key legislation passed. Working with the leadership of the Assembly and oth [...] |
2007-02-12 12:34:00 | Embassy Pristina | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM UNMIK YI |
| 07PRISTINA118 |
COM REACHES OUT TO KOSOVO SERBS IN TOWN HALL [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. During a town hall meeting in Gracanica, Kosovo Serbs shared their practical concerns about implementation of the Ahtisaari package, economic development, security, and returns with the COM and EU representative Torbjorn Sohlstrom. COM described the many provisions in the doc [...] |
2007-02-13 17:31:00 | Embassy Pristina | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KCRM KDEM PGOV PINR PREL YI UNMIK EAID PHUM |
| 07PRISTINA122 |
COUNTRY CLEARANCE GRANTED TO KYLE CUNNINGHAM - COCHRAN [...] US Office Pristina welcomes and grants country clearance to Kyle Cunningham to visit Pristina February 28 - March 1, 2007. The purpose of the visit is to interview Cochran candidates. Control Officer for this visit will be Commercial Assistant, Fatmir Morina, who can be reached at: office 381 [...] |
2007-02-20 10:08:00 | Embassy Pristina | UNCLASSIFIED | AL BK BU EAGR HR MK OTRA RO SR TU |
| 07PRISTINA125 |
COUNTRY CLEARANCE GRANTED TO MS. BRIDGETTE JOHNSON, MR. [...] US Office Pristina welcomes and grants country clearance to Treasury's program officer Ms. Bridgette Johnson, Budget Advisor Mr. Keith Clark and Project Coordinator Ms. Karen Skeete to visit Pristina February 25 - March 2, 2007. The purpose of the visit is to meet with Kosovo officials to dra [...] |
2007-02-20 16:32:00 | Embassy Pristina | UNCLASSIFIED | OTRA YI |
| 07PRISTINA126 |
KOSOVO: SERBIAN JUDGE ALLOWS EXPLORATORY DIG AT [...] (U) This is a joint Embassy Belgrade/U.S. Office Pristina cable. 2. (C) In a meeting on February 13 at the Belgrade District Court, Judge Milan Dilparic agreed to permit an exploratory dig at the site just over the administrative boundary line (ABL), where it is suspected that up to several [...] |
2007-02-21 16:37:00 | Embassy Pristina | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM KJUS PGOV |
| 07PRISTINA139 |
COUNTRY CLEARANCE GRANTED TO JOHN JOHNSON [...] US Office Pristina welcomes and grants country clearance to Poloff John Johnson to visit Pristina February 28-March 2, 2007. Control Officer for this visit will be Political Officer, Heidi Barrachina, who can be reached at: office 381-38-549-516 ext. 3104; GSM 377-44-501-741; 381-63-1840-036 f [...] |
2007-02-26 14:07:00 | Embassy Pristina | UNCLASSIFIED | OTRA PREL AMGT ASEC SR YI |
| 07PRISTINA141 |
KOSOVO: DACI CONVENES "DEMOCRATIC LEAGUE OF [...] (C) SUMMARY: The break-away faction of the ruling Democratic League of Kosovo (LDK) held its first political convention on February 17, endorsing ex-Assembly Speaker Nexhat Daci as its leader and approving his hand-picked slate of deputy presidents. The party chose the name "Democratic League [...] |
2007-02-26 14:49:00 | Embassy Pristina | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM UNMIK YI |
| 07PRISTINA142 |
KOSOVO: UNMIK POLICE APPLY LESSONS LEARNED IN THE [...] (C) SUMMARY: Recent USOP conversations with top UNMIK police leaders reveal that UNMIK plans to use the same overall approach toward the planned March 3 demonstration of the extremist Self-Determination Movement (SDM) that it used during the violent SDM protest on February 10. That is, a fir [...] |
2007-02-26 17:40:00 | Embassy Pristina | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KJUS KCRM KDEM MOPS UNMIK YI |
| 07PRISTINA15 |
U.S. OFFICE PRISTINA EMERGENCY ACTION PROCEDURES - [...] (C) In the runup to Kosovo's final status process, post is reviewing its emergency procedures. This is the first in a series of messages. 2. (S/NF) USOP (to include State, USAID, SIMO, and DoD) has the following communications capabilities: State: ----- a. Video Teleconference (VT [...] |
2007-01-09 15:24:00 | Embassy Pristina | SECRET//NOFORN | ASEC AMGT ACOA PBTS |
| 07PRISTINA150 |
KOSOVO: SEVENTH ANNUAL TRAFFICKING IN PERSONS [...] (U) SUMMARY: Post's submission for the Seventh Annual Trafficking in Persons (TIP) Report follows. Kosovo is administered by the United Nations Interim Administrative Mission in Kosovo (UNMIK) pursuant to UN Security Council Resolution (UNSCR) 1244, which was adopted in 1999 following the NA [...] |
2007-02-28 13:55:00 | Embassy Pristina | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KCRM PHUM KWMN ELAB SMIG KFRD PREF PGOV KJUS |
| 07PRISTINA151 |
KOSOVO: USOP HELPS BUILD KOSOVO SPECIAL [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Despite initial hurdles, the Kosovo Special Prosecutors' Office (KSPO) is taking shape under USOP leadership and will help fill a gap in prosecutions for sensitive cases. One special prosecutor started work in January, three others transferred on February 28, and a fifth was s [...] |
2007-02-28 15:06:00 | Embassy Pristina | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KJUS KCRM EAID KDEM UNMIK YI |
| 07PRISTINA159 |
KOSOVO: SCENESETTER FOR VISIT OF A/S FRIED TO [...] (C) SUMMARY: Status fever continues to grip all residents of Kosovo, with ethnic Albanians focused on the conclusion of the Ahtisaari process and Serbs grimly wondering how they will cope once the outcome is clear. With careful management and assiduous courting of both Albanian and Serb leade [...] |
2007-03-01 18:08:00 | Embassy Pristina | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV EAID KDEM UNMIK YI |
| 07PRISTINA161 |
KOSOVO: MEDIA CAMPAIGN/PUBLIC OUTREACH ON [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Since President Ahtisaari's February 2 presentation of the final status settlement package for Kosovo, efforts to explain the package to both Kosovar Albanians and Serbs include a USAID-funded media campaign, televised educational programs, radio call-in shows, community round [...] |
2007-03-02 16:18:00 | Embassy Pristina | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV KJUS EAID KDEM UNMIK YI KPAO |
| 07PRISTINA162 |
KOSOVO SERB JOURNALISTS LOOK TO UNOSEK AND USG TO [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. During a roundtable discussion on March 1 with COM and EU representative Torbjorn Sohlstrom, Kosovo Serb journalists shared their concerns about the lack of protections for Serb media in the status package, and offered their proposal for additional guarantees. COM assured them [...] |
2007-03-02 16:42:00 | Embassy Pristina | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM PGOV PINR PREL EAID KDEM SOCI UNMIK YI |
| 07PRISTINA163 |
UPDATE ON KOSOVO PRIORITY STANDARDS [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Kosovo's Provisional Institutions of Self-Government (PISG) are finding it difficult to close the book on the remaining Contact Group (CG) Priorities for Standards. We believe all CG offices here would agree that at least nine of the 13 Priorities are complete and that the onl [...] |
2007-03-02 16:58:00 | Embassy Pristina | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PREF EAID KDEM UNMIK YI |
| 07PRISTINA164 |
KOSOVO: CASE EMERGING AGAINST ALBIN KURTI FOR [...] (C) SUMMARY: On February 13, following the violent February 10 protest led by the Self-Determination Movement (SDM), in which two people were killed and approximately 80 injured, Kosovo Police Service (KPS) detained SDM leader Albin Kurti for 30 days based on the ruling of an international pr [...] |
2007-03-02 17:07:00 | Embassy Pristina | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KJUS KCRM EAID KDEM UNMIK YI |
| 07PRISTINA168 |
KOSOVO: SDM MARCH 3 PROTEST PEACEFUL, RESULT OF [...] (C) SUMMARY: The Self-Determination Movement (SDM), virulently opposed to President Ahtisaari's final status package for Kosovo and continued UNMIK presence, held a peaceful protest March 3 in the center of Pristina that attracted fewer than 3000 participants. No serious incidents, injuries [...] |
2007-03-05 12:14:00 | Embassy Pristina | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KJUS KCRM EAID KDEM UNMIK YI |
| 07PRISTINA169 |
KOSOVO SERB HARD-LINERS AND MODERATES FACE OFF IN [...] (C) SUMMARY. In what was clearly an orchestrated effort, Kosovo Serb hardliners prevented moderate Serb leaders from holding the founding session of the Serbian National Assembly (SNS) on March 4 in Gracanica. The meeting was originally the brainchild of noted Croatian Serb activist Milorad [...] |
2007-03-05 15:56:00 | Embassy Pristina | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PINR PREL YI UNMIK |
| 07PRISTINA180 |
KOSOVO: ASSEMBLY INVESTIGATES FORMER SPEAKER DACI, [...] (C) SUMMARY: The Kosovo Assembly's ad-hoc Investigative Committee presented its report on financial wrongdoing to the full Assembly, which dutifully adopted it on February 22. The report was essentially a watered-down version of the Auditor General's earlier findings, and was even less firm in [...] |
2007-03-08 08:11:00 | Embassy Pristina | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PHUM KDEM UNMIK YI |
| 07PRISTINA181 |
KOSOVO: ASSEMBLY INVESTIGATES FORMER SPEAKER DACI, [...] No summary [...] |
2007-03-08 08:12:00 | Embassy Pristina | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PHUM KDEM UNMIK YI |
| 07PRISTINA186 |
KOSOVO: ON THE HUSTINGS FOR THE PACKAGE: ALL [...] (C) Summary: USOP outreach efforts to encourage understanding of the Ahtisaari package have uncovered some interesting trends, particularly with regard to Kosovar Albanian perceptions of the document. By far, decentralization as it affects southern Kosovo has proven to be the most contentio [...] |
2007-03-12 11:37:00 | Embassy Pristina | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PHUM SOCI |
| 07PRISTINA187 |
KOSOVO'S MOST INFLUENTIAL WOMEN [...] (SBU) Post has identified the five most influential women in the Kosovo, per Ref A, as well as three Kosovo women who are influential among their respective minority communities. Political officer Heidi Barrachina is POC for women's issues at post: (381) 38-549-516 x3104; barrachinahh@state. [...] |
2007-03-12 11:50:00 | Embassy Pristina | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KDEM PGOV PINR PREL YI UNMIK PHUM SOCI KWMN |
| 07PRISTINA188 |
KOSOVO: VILLAGE LEADERS WILLING TO DISCUSS [...] (C) SUMMARY: A March 7 visit by the USKFOR Polad to Debelde, a town affected by the 2001 border agreement between Macedonia and the then-FRY, suggests that village leaders there talk a tough game on not giving up their land, but are actually quite willing to discuss compensation. Indeed, thes [...] |
2007-03-12 12:42:00 | Embassy Pristina | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KJUS KCRM EAID KDEM UNMIK YI |
| 07PRISTINA19 |
KOSOVO: KILLING OF POLICE OFFICER AND SUBSEQUENT [...] (C) SUMMARY: Kosovo Police Service (KPS) officer Avni Kosumi was shot and killed on January 3 near the Serb village of Babin Most in Vushtrri municipality, 10 miles north of Pristina. Since the shot may have come from the direction of the village, the KPS searched homes in the area, once by [...] |
2007-01-10 16:09:00 | Embassy Pristina | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KJUS KCRM UNMIK YI |
| 07PRISTINA194 |
KOSOVO: A/S FRIED TELLS SERBS AND ALBANIANS TO [...] (C) SUMMARY: During his March 6-8 visit to Kosovo, EUR Assistant Secretary Daniel Fried warned both Albanians and Serbs to make sure that extremists from both sides do not raise tensions in the run up to the decision on Kosovo's final status. Serb leaders from the north were resolute in thei [...] |
2007-03-13 11:46:00 | Embassy Pristina | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV MOPS UNMIK YI |
| 07PRISTINA20 |
KOSOVO: 2006 A SUCCESSFUL YEAR FOR SERBIAN [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. In 2006, the Reconstruction Implementation Commission (RIC) completed extensive renovations on seven Serbian Orthodox religious sites damaged or destroyed during the March 2004 riots. Work on an eighth site will continue into early 2007 due to the complexity of the works. Th [...] |
2007-01-10 16:45:00 | Embassy Pristina | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | SCUL KCRM PGOV PINR PREL YI UNMIK EAID PHUM |
| 07PRISTINA200 |
KOSOVO: DISCIPLINED ASSEMBLY SUPPORTS AHTISAARI [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: In contrast to its February 9 marathon session that ended in only half-hearted support for the Ahtisaari proposal and the work of the Kosovo negotiating team (the "Unity Team"), the Assembly on March 14 warmly received the report of three Unity Team members on the last "elephan [...] |
2007-03-14 18:07:00 | Embassy Pristina | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV KJUS KCRM EAID KDEM UNMIK YI |
| 07PRISTINA204 |
KOSOVO: UNMIK/PISG SELECT NEW WINNER OF SECOND [...] (SBU) Summary: The Kosovo Telecommunications Regulatory Authority (TRA) recently announced the consortium of Telecom Slovenia/Ipko/Albright Group as the winner of the second mobile tender after the initial winner Kosmocell was unable to make its payment for the operating license. The consorti [...] |
2007-03-16 12:58:00 | Embassy Pristina | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON ECPS PREL YI |
| 07PRISTINA206 |
KOSOVO: NEW POLICE COMMISSIONER INTENDS TO [...] (C) SUMMARY: New UNMIK Police Commissioner Richard Monk told COM March 14 that he will work to maintain UNMIK Civpol's strength throughout the transition period to the European Security and Defense Policy (ESDP) rule of law mission. The same day, EU Planning Team Head Casper Klynge said the [...] |
2007-03-16 15:44:00 | Embassy Pristina | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KJUS KCRM EAID KDEM UNMIK YI |
| 07PRISTINA207 |
COUNTRY CLEARANCE GRANTED TO JUDGE JOHN TUNHEIM [...] US Office Pristina welcomes and grants country clearance to John Tunheim, U.S. District Judge, District of Minnesota to visit Pristina March 18 - March 30, 2007. The purpose of the visit is to participate in an OPDAT roundtable on plea bargaining and to assist USAID with its constitutional dr [...] |
2007-03-16 15:56:00 | Embassy Pristina | UNCLASSIFIED | OTRA YI |
| 07PRISTINA208 |
KOSOVO: COM EMPHASIZES REDLINES IN FRANK [...] (C) SUMMARY. During a conversation with E.O.-listed northern Kosovo Serb hardliner Milan Ivanovic on March 15, COM emphasized that Serbs are free to express their opinions about Ahtisaari's proposals and the UN-led status process underway, but that if their rhetoric spills into violent or pr [...] |
2007-03-16 17:50:00 | Embassy Pristina | CONFIDENTIAL | KCRM KDEM PGOV PINR PREL YI UNMIK EAID PHUM |
| 07PRISTINA21 |
KOSOVO: UNMIK CUSTOMS ASSISTS IN SEIZURE OF OVER [...] (C) SUMMARY: UNMIK Customs Service became suspicious when a truck later found to contain about 430 kilograms of cocaine entered Kosovo from Montenegro. They held the truck overnight in Peja, and escorted it to the Macedonian border January 8, where Macedonian authorities discovered the cocai [...] |
2007-01-10 17:00:00 | Embassy Pristina | CONFIDENTIAL | PBTS SNAR KCRM KJUS EAID UNMIK YI |
| 07PRISTINA214 |
USOP'S FIRST VISIT TO THE NEWLY RE-ACCREDITED [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: UN Special Envoy Ahtisaari,s proposal for Kosovo,s final status calls for the regularization of the university in north Mitrovica as a Kosovar institution of higher learning. On March 11 UNMIK quietly and temporarily extended accreditation to the university. In a March 15 me [...] |
2007-03-20 11:36:00 | Embassy Pristina | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KPAO PGOV PREL EAID SOCI SCUL |
| 07PRISTINA22 |
COUNTRY CLEARANCE GRANTED TO HENRY KELLEY [...] US Office Pristina welcomes and grants country clearance to Henry Kelley, Senior Advisor for Regional Programs, U.S. Coordinator - Stability Pact of EUR/ACE SEED division. The purpose of the visit is to attend meetings to review Kosovo's assistance needs over the coming year and performance o [...] |
2007-01-11 08:04:00 | Embassy Pristina | UNCLASSIFIED | AU BE FR OTRA OECD XG XH XT ZL SI |
| 07PRISTINA224 |
KOSOVO GOVERNING COALITION GROWS PROGRESSIVELY [...] (C) SUMMARY. Weak leadership, opposition enticements, and the departure of AAK leader Ramush Haradinaj for the Hague have all combined to progressively undermine the governing coalition of Kosovo, which continues to limp along despite intensified pressure from a variety of sources. The inte [...] |
2007-03-21 13:12:00 | Embassy Pristina | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL YI UNMIK |
| 07PRISTINA229 |
KOSOVO: NORTHERN MUNICIPALITIES SUBMIT FY 2007 [...] (C) Summary. Despite having publicly cut economic and political ties with the central government in Pristina, Kosovo's northern Serb-majority municipalities - Zubin Potok, Leposavic and Zvecan - recently submitted their FY 2007 budgets to the Kosovo Ministry of Finance and Economy (MFE). Alth [...] |
2007-03-23 15:09:00 | Embassy Pristina | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | ECON EFIN PREL YI |
| 07PRISTINA232 |
COUNTRY CLEARANCE GRANTED TO POLOFF DAVID MUNIZ [...] US Office Pristina welcomes and grants country clearance to Poloff David Muniz to visit Pristina on April 11-14, 2007. The purpose of the visit is for consultations with USOP. Control Officer for this visit will be Political Officer, Heidi Barrachina, who can be reached at: office 381-38-549 [...] |
2007-03-26 13:26:00 | Embassy Pristina | UNCLASSIFIED | OTRA PREL AMGT ASEC SR |
| 07PRISTINA233 |
COUNTRY CLEARANCE GRANTED TO JOSHUA BLACK [...] US Office Pristina welcomes and grants country clearance to EUR/SCE Kosovo Future Status Process Coordinator Joshua Black to visit Pristina on March 29-31, 2007. The purpose of the visit is for consultations with USOP. Control Officer for this visit will be Political Officer, AJ Rei-Perrine, [...] |
2007-03-26 13:35:00 | Embassy Pristina | UNCLASSIFIED | AU OTRA SI UK |
| 07PRISTINA237 |
KOSOVO: THE NORTH'S ALBANIAN MINORITY WORRIED [...] (C) Summary: Albanian residents of two communities north of Kosovo's Ibar River were highly supportive of the Ahtisaari proposal and grateful for USG assistance. Residents told us they generally feel secure in their villages and in their travels to the southern part of Kosovo. They have not [...] |
2007-03-28 16:09:00 | Embassy Pristina | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KPKO PHUM EAID YI |
| 07PRISTINA241 |
COUNTRY CLEARANCE GRANTED TO AMB. NULAND [...] US Office Pristina welcomes and grants country clearance to Ambassador Victoria Nuland to visit Pristina, Kosovo April 2, 2007. The purpose of the visit is in conjunction with an organized visit of NATO Permanent Representative to KFOR. Point of Contact for this visit is Poloff Tracey Thornton [...] |
2007-03-30 07:14:00 | Embassy Pristina | UNCLASSIFIED | AMGT NATO OTRA |
| 07PRISTINA258 |
KOSOVO'S IPR REGIME STILL WEAK BUT FUTURE PROGRESS [...] (SBU) Summary. Kosovo's intellectual property rights (IPR) regime remains a bad mix of little institutional IPR experience, a struggling economy and high unemployment, limited interest from UNMIK and the Provisional Institutions of Self-Government (PISG) in implementing laws, and weak enforce [...] |
2007-04-03 11:24:00 | Embassy Pristina | CONFIDENTIAL | KIPR ECON PREL YI |
| 07PRISTINA259 |
KOSOVO: RECENTLY LAUNCHED PILOT KPC REINTEGRATION [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The UK's Ministry of Defence (UKMOD) launched a pilot reintegration program for 80 separated Kosovo Protection Corps (KPC) members in January 2007. The program, which the International Organization for Migration (IOM) is managing, assists participants with finding new jobs or [...] |
2007-04-04 09:53:00 | Embassy Pristina | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KJUS KCRM EAID KDEM UNMIK YI |
| 07PRISTINA260 |
KOSOVO: COM ADVISES ENERGY MINISTER TO MAINTAIN [...] (C) Summary. After hearing the World Bank's proposal (described by a World Bank team visiting Kosovo the week of March 26) to suspend temporar | ||||