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01PRISTINA1593THACI 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 07:06:00Embassy PristinaCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV PHUM KDEM EAID ECON NATO SR
03PRISTINA177AAK 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 17:18:00Embassy PristinaCONFIDENTIALPREL 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 08:23:00Embassy PristinaUNCLASSIFIEDAMGT 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 13:42:00Embassy PristinaUNCLASSIFIEDASEC OTRA SI
06PRISTINA1015KOSOVO: 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 17:57:00Embassy PristinaCONFIDENTIALECPS 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 09:08:00Embassy PristinaUNCLASSIFIEDPREL 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 16:02:00Embassy PristinaUNCLASSIFIEDOTRA 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 11:01:00Embassy PristinaUNCLASSIFIEDAMGT OTRA
06PRISTINA1052KOSOVO: 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 12:12:00Embassy PristinaCONFIDENTIALPREL 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 12:29:00Embassy PristinaCONFIDENTIALPREL SCUL PINR KDEM YI
06PRISTINA1054KOSOVO: 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 12:59:00Embassy PristinaCONFIDENTIALPTER KCRM KJUS ASEC UNMIK YI
06PRISTINA1055KOSOVO: 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 13:25:00Embassy PristinaCONFIDENTIALECON PGOV YI
06PRISTINA1057KOSOVO: 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 10:06:00Embassy PristinaUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV KJUS KCRM EAID KDEM UNMIK YI
06PRISTINA1058KOSOVO: 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 10:10:00Embassy PristinaUNCLASSIFIEDKCRM KTFN EFIN ECON YI
06PRISTINA1059KOSOVO: 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 11:36:00Embassy PristinaCONFIDENTIALPGOV KJUS KCRM EAID KDEM UNMIK YI
06PRISTINA1063KOSOVO: 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 15:08:00Embassy PristinaCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL KCRM UNMIK YI
06PRISTINA1064KOSOVO: 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 16:42:00Embassy PristinaCONFIDENTIALPGOV KJUS KCRM PTER UNMIK YI
06PRISTINA1071KOSOVO: 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 10:43:00Embassy PristinaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEAID KDEM PGOV SOCI PREL UNMIK YI PHUM
06PRISTINA1072KOSOVO: 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 10:43:00Embassy PristinaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEAID KCRM KDEM PGOV PINR PREL SOCI YI UNMIK
06PRISTINA1074KOSOVO: 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 15:24:00Embassy PristinaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYKTFN PGOV KJUS KCRM EAID UNMIK YI
06PRISTINA1075KOSOVO: 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 17:35:00Embassy PristinaCONFIDENTIALKDEM PHUM PGOV EAID UNMIK YI
06PRISTINA1087KOSOVO: 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 17:50:00Embassy PristinaCONFIDENTIALPGOV KJUS KCRM EAID KDEM UNMIK YI
06PRISTINA1088KOSOVO: 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 09:01:00Embassy PristinaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPTER ASEC KCRM PGOV KJUS EAID KDEM UNMIK YI
06PRISTINA1091KOSOVO 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 16:10:00Embassy PristinaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEAID KCRM KDEM PGOV PINR PREL YI UNMIK SOCI
06PRISTINA1095KOSOVO: 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 12:26:00Embassy PristinaCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL UNMIK YI
06PRISTINA1096KOSOVO: 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 13:06:00Embassy PristinaUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV PREL KCRM EAID KDEM UNMIK YI
06PRISTINA1099KOSOVO: 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 17:12:00Embassy PristinaCONFIDENTIALKCRM KJUS PGOV PINR PREL YI UNMIK EAID PHUM
06PRISTINA1100KOSOVO: 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 17:30:00Embassy PristinaCONFIDENTIALPGOV KJUS KCRM EAID KDEM UNMIK YI
06PRISTINA1117KOSOVO 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 13:44:00Embassy PristinaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYKCRM KDEM PGOV PINR PREL YI UNMIK EAID PHUM
06PRISTINA1118KOSOVO: 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 14:45:00Embassy PristinaCONFIDENTIALKJUS EAID KDEM UNMIK YI PGOV
06PRISTINA1121KOSOVO 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 08:30:00Embassy PristinaCONFIDENTIALPGOV PBTS INR UNMIK YI KTIA
06PRISTINA211AHTISAARI'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 09:54:00Embassy PristinaCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV PHUM UNMIK YI
06PRISTINA212TEST MESSAGE - TESTING SIPDIS CAPTION
[...] No summary [...]
2006-03-10 09:59:00Embassy PristinaUNCLASSIFIEDACOA
06PRISTINA216KOSOVO: 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 17:21:00Embassy PristinaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PREL KDEM UNMIK YI
06PRISTINA218KOSOVO: 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 17:21:00Embassy PristinaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PREL KDEM UNMIK YI
06PRISTINA219LAST 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 19:26:00Embassy PristinaCONFIDENTIALECPS ETRD PGOV PREL YI UNMIK
06PRISTINA229KOSOVO: 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 16:34:00Embassy PristinaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PREL KDEM UNMIK YI
06PRISTINA232SCENESETTER 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 18:19:00Embassy PristinaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL KCRM PGOV PINR KDEM UNMIK YI
06PRISTINA240KOSOVO'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 16:10:00Embassy PristinaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL KCRM PGOV PINR KDEM UNMIK YI
06PRISTINA242NEW 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 13:41:00Embassy PristinaCONFIDENTIALPREL KCRM PGOV PINR KDEM UNMIK YI
06PRISTINA245PRISTINA 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 15:26:00Embassy PristinaUNCLASSIFIEDACOA AMGT KRIM
06PRISTINA256KOSOVO: 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 18:12:00Embassy PristinaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREF 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 09:04:00Embassy PristinaUNCLASSIFIEDASEC MW MONTENEGRO PREF SR YI ZL
06PRISTINA259KOSOVO 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 16:22:00Embassy PristinaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYMASS MARR PREL EAID PGOV UNMIK YI
06PRISTINA265KOSOVO: 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 10:05:00Embassy PristinaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL 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 07:05:00Embassy PristinaUNCLASSIFIEDOTRA ASEC YI
06PRISTINA274KOSOVO: 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 15:27:00Embassy PristinaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREF PGOV PREL UNMIK YI
06PRISTINA280KOSOVO: 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 13:44:00Embassy PristinaCONFIDENTIALPGOV KJUS KCRM EAID KDEM UNMIK YI
06PRISTINA282RETURNS 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 14:52:00Embassy PristinaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYICTY 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 08:48:00Embassy PristinaUNCLASSIFIEDOTRA ASEC AMGT PREL UK AU GR YI
06PRISTINA285KOSOVO 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 14:22:00Embassy PristinaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL 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 07:51:00Embassy PristinaUNCLASSIFIEDASEC OTRA AU GR SE AL NATO EU
06PRISTINA290KOSOVO 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 16:42:00Embassy PristinaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL KCRM PGOV PINR KDEM UNMIK YI
06PRISTINA299KOSOVO 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 15:14:00Embassy PristinaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL PGOV PHUM KDEM UNMIK YI
06PRISTINA302NEW 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 17:14:00Embassy PristinaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PREL KDEM UNMIK YI
06PRISTINA308KOSOVO: 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 17:19:00Embassy PristinaCONFIDENTIALKDEM PGOV PREL UNMIK YI
06PRISTINA310SCENESETTER 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 10:40:00Embassy PristinaCONFIDENTIALPREL 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 12:14:00Embassy PristinaUNCLASSIFIEDOTRA 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 12:15:00Embassy PristinaUNCLASSIFIEDOTRA ASEC YI
06PRISTINA333VISIT 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 15:23:00Embassy PristinaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL KCRM PGOV PINR KDEM UNMIK YI
06PRISTINA335KOSOVO: 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 14:13:00Embassy PristinaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PREL KDEM UNMIK YI
06PRISTINA336AMBASSADOR 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 14:44:00Embassy PristinaCONFIDENTIALKDEM PGOV PREL UNMIK YI
06PRISTINA338UNMIK 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 13:42:00Embassy PristinaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL KCRM PGOV PINR KDEM UNMIK YI
06PRISTINA339KOSOVO 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 14:46:00Embassy PristinaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREF EAID SENV PHUM UNMIK KDEM YI
06PRISTINA352KOSOVO 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 13:08:00Embassy PristinaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYKDEM 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 08:48:00Embassy PristinaUNCLASSIFIEDOTRA HR AMGT ASEC YI
06PRISTINA363KOSOVO: 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 14:13:00Embassy PristinaUNCLASSIFIEDKDEM PGOV PREL UNMIK YI
06PRISTINA364UNMIK 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 14:13:00Embassy PristinaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYKDEM PGOV PREL UNMIK YI
06PRISTINA365BERISHA 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 14:14:00Embassy PristinaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV KDEM PREL UNMIK YI
06PRISTINA366CONTACT 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 16:10:00Embassy PristinaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL PGOV PHUM KDEM UNMIK YI
06PRISTINA369KOSOVO: 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 15:36:00Embassy PristinaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYKTFN 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 07:25:00Embassy PristinaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYOTRA PINR SR ASEC YI
06PRISTINA384KOSOVO 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 16:38:00Embassy PristinaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYKDEM 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 16:30:00Embassy PristinaUNCLASSIFIEDOTRA ASEC YI
06PRISTINA392KOSOVO'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 16:52:00Embassy PristinaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYKDEM 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 09:57:00Embassy PristinaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYAMGT NATO OTRA ASEC YI
06PRISTINA410BEST 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 17:18:00Embassy PristinaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL 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 08:03:00Embassy PristinaUNCLASSIFIEDOTRA 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 11:34:00Embassy PristinaUNCLASSIFIEDOTRA ASEC SR YI
06PRISTINA421KOSOVO: 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 17:01:00Embassy PristinaCONFIDENTIALPGOV 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 16:59:00Embassy PristinaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PREF SR
06PRISTINA426KOSOVO: 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 15:32:00Embassy PristinaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PREL KDEM UNMIK YI PREF
06PRISTINA427KOSOVO: 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 15:55:00Embassy PristinaUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV PREL PINR KDEM UNMIK YI
06PRISTINA437KOSOVO 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 14:58:00Embassy PristinaCONFIDENTIALKDEM PGOV PHUM PINR PREL YI
06PRISTINA439KOSOVO: 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 17:08:00Embassy PristinaCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL KDEM UNMIK YI
06PRISTINA448RELATIONS 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 15:10:00Embassy PristinaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL KCRM PGOV PINR KDEM UNMIK YI
06PRISTINA449KOSOVO: 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 16:18:00Embassy PristinaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PREL KDEM UNMIK YI
06PRISTINA450SCENESETTER 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 18:44:00Embassy PristinaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL KCRM PGOV PINR KDEM UNMIK YI
06PRISTINA457AMBASSADOR 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 15:32:00Embassy PristinaCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL KDEM UNMIK YI
06PRISTINA461KOSOVO: 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 06:29:00Embassy PristinaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL 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 10:15:00Embassy PristinaUNCLASSIFIEDEAID 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 14:49:00Embassy PristinaUNCLASSIFIEDOTRA ASEC YI
06PRISTINA480FUNDING 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 16:45:00Embassy PristinaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL KCRM PGOV PINR KDEM UNMIK YI
06PRISTINA481KOSOVO: 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 13:23:00Embassy PristinaCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL UNMIK YI
06PRISTINA484KOSOVO 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 16:38:00Embassy PristinaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL KCRM PGOV PINR KDEM UNMIK YI
06PRISTINA491KOSOVO: 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 16:59:00Embassy PristinaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PREL KDEM PREF UNMIK YI
06PRISTINA493KOSOVO: 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 14:52:00Embassy PristinaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PREL KDEM UNMIK YI
06PRISTINA495RIFT 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 17:07:00Embassy PristinaCONFIDENTIALPREL KCRM PGOV PINR SOCI KIRF KDEM UNMIK YI
06PRISTINA498UNMIK 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 17:08:00Embassy PristinaCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL KDEM UNMIK YI
06PRISTINA506KOSOVO: 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 15:26:00Embassy PristinaCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL KDEM UNMIK YI
06PRISTINA507KOSOVO: 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 16:01:00Embassy PristinaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREF PGOV PREL UNMIK YI
06PRISTINA513KOSOVO: 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 15:26:00Embassy PristinaCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL KDEM UNMIK YI
06PRISTINA518SECURITY 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 17:08:00Embassy PristinaCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNPREL KCRM PGOV PINR KDEM UNMIK YI
06PRISTINA519KOSOVO: 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 17:34:00Embassy PristinaCONFIDENTIALMARR PREL PGOV UNMIK YI
06PRISTINA520KOSOVO: 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 17:40:00Embassy PristinaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PREL KDEM UNMIK YI
06PRISTINA525KOSOVO: 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 13:59:00Embassy PristinaUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV PREL KDEM UNMIK YI
06PRISTINA531KOSOVO: 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 17:04:00Embassy PristinaCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL KDEM UNMIK YI
06PRISTINA532SALI 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 17:40:00Embassy PristinaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PREL KDEM PREF UNMIK YI
06PRISTINA534KOSOVO: 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 18:37:00Embassy PristinaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYKCRM PREF PREL PGOV PINR SCUL UNMIK YI
06PRISTINA538KOSOVO'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 16:47:00Embassy PristinaUNCLASSIFIEDEFIN ECON YI
06PRISTINA539KOSOVO'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 17:01:00Embassy PristinaCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL KDEM UNMIK YI
06PRISTINA545KOSOVO: 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 09:55:00Embassy PristinaUNCLASSIFIEDENRG ECON EFIN EINV PREL YI
06PRISTINA547 KOSOVO SERBS: A SUCCESS STORY AND TWO PLEAS
[...] No summary [...]
2006-06-23 11:57:00Embassy PristinaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV 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 14:53:00Embassy PristinaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PREF SR YI
06PRISTINA554KOSOVO: 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 16:03:00Embassy PristinaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEAID KCRM KDEM KJUS PGOV PINR PREL YI UNMIK
06PRISTINA561KOSOVO: 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 15:24:00Embassy PristinaCONFIDENTIALPGOV KCOR KDEM PREL UNMIK YI
06PRISTINA564KOSTUNICA 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 16:30:00Embassy PristinaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL KCRM PGOV PINR KDEM UNMIK YI
06PRISTINA567KOSOVO: 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 17:03:00Embassy PristinaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV 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 10:24:00Embassy PristinaUNCLASSIFIEDOTRA SR
06PRISTINA575NORTH 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 13:55:00Embassy PristinaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL KCRM PGOV PINR KDEM UNMIK YI PREF
06PRISTINA576KOSOVO: 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 16:27:00Embassy PristinaCONFIDENTIALPGOV 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 12:23:00Embassy PristinaUNCLASSIFIEDPINR OTRA SR
06PRISTINA584SERBIA 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 17:52:00Embassy PristinaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL KCRM PGOV PINR KDEM UNMIK YI KJUS EAID
06PRISTINA587TENSIONS 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 18:32:00Embassy PristinaCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL KDEM UNMIK YI
06PRISTINA598NORTHERN 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 17:36:00Embassy PristinaCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNPREL KCRM PGOV PINR KDEM UNMIK YI
06PRISTINA599KOSOVO: 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 18:50:00Embassy PristinaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREF EAID SENV PHUM UNMIK KDEM YI
06PRISTINA600KOSOVO: 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 18:50:00Embassy PristinaUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV PREL KDEM UNMIK YI
06PRISTINA608KOSOVO 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 18:00:00Embassy PristinaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL KCRM PGOV PINR KDEM UNMIK YI KJUS EAID
06PRISTINA609KOSOVO: 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 18:01:00Embassy PristinaUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV PREL KDEM UNMIK YI
06PRISTINA611KOSOVO: 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 16:49:00Embassy PristinaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV 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 12:08:00Embassy PristinaUNCLASSIFIEDASEC OTRA AU GR SE AL NATO EU
06PRISTINA614MODERATE 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 16:40:00Embassy PristinaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL KCRM PGOV PINR KDEM UNMIK YI
06PRISTINA617KOSOVO 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 17:30:00Embassy PristinaCONFIDENTIALPREL KCRM PGOV PHUM UNMIK YI
06PRISTINA630KOSOVO: 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 15:42:00Embassy PristinaCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL ETTC UNMIK YI
06PRISTINA631KOSOVO: 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 16:06:00Embassy PristinaUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV PREL KDEM UNMIK YI
06PRISTINA637KOSOVO: 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 15:45:00Embassy PristinaCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL KDEM UNMIK YI
06PRISTINA639COM 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 16:22:00Embassy PristinaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL KCRM PGOV PINR KDEM UNMIK YI
06PRISTINA640WISNER 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 16:29:00Embassy PristinaCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL KDEM UNMIK YI
06PRISTINA645KOSOVO: 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 13:44:00Embassy PristinaCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL KDEM UNMIK YI
06PRISTINA647MODERATE 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 15:23:00Embassy PristinaCONFIDENTIALPREL KCRM PGOV PINR KDEM UNMIK YI
06PRISTINA648KOSOVO: 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 16:27:00Embassy PristinaCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL KDEM UNMIK YI
06PRISTINA653KOSOVO: 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 12:04:00Embassy PristinaUNCLASSIFIEDPREF 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 17:05:00Embassy PristinaUNCLASSIFIEDOTRA 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 17:06:00Embassy PristinaUNCLASSIFIEDOTRA 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 17:06:00Embassy PristinaUNCLASSIFIEDOTRA ASEC YI
06PRISTINA661KOSOVO: 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 09:00:00Embassy PristinaCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL KDEM UNMIK YI
06PRISTINA663KOSOVO: 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 09:00:00Embassy PristinaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL KCRM PGOV PINR KDEM UNMIK YI PHUM KRIF
06PRISTINA664KOSOVO: 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 15:51:00Embassy PristinaCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL KDEM UNMIK DPKO YI
06PRISTINA674KOSOVO: 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 15:49:00Embassy PristinaCONFIDENTIALPGOV 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 17:29:00Embassy PristinaUNCLASSIFIEDOTRA 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 17:30:00Embassy PristinaUNCLASSIFIEDOTRA AMGT AU YI
06PRISTINA689KOSOVO: 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 12:42:00Embassy PristinaCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL KDEM UNMIK DPKO YI
06PRISTINA709KOSOVO: 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 18:35:00Embassy PristinaCONFIDENTIALASEC KPKO PGOV PHUM KJUS PY
06PRISTINA725KOSOVO: 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 17:55:00Embassy PristinaUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV PREL KDEM UNMIK YI
06PRISTINA726KOSOVO: 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 18:08:00Embassy PristinaCONFIDENTIALPREL KCRM PGOV PINR KDEM UNMIK YI
06PRISTINA727KOSOVO: 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 10:32:00Embassy PristinaCONFIDENTIALEAID ETTC KCRM PREL YI UNMIK DPKO
06PRISTINA728KOSOVO: 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 13:44:00Embassy PristinaCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL KDEM UNMIK YI
06PRISTINA729KOSOVO: 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 14:17:00Embassy PristinaCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL KDEM UNMIK YI
06PRISTINA734KOSOVO: 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 20:02:00Embassy PristinaCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL UNMIK YI
06PRISTINA736KOSOVO: 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 17:38:00Embassy PristinaCONFIDENTIALPGOV 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 09:17:00Embassy PristinaUNCLASSIFIEDPINR OTRA SR
06PRISTINA748KOSOVO: 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 12:15:00Embassy PristinaCONFIDENTIALPGOV 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 14:53:00Embassy PristinaUNCLASSIFIEDOTRA 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 14:53:00Embassy PristinaUNCLASSIFIEDOTRA 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 14:54:00Embassy PristinaUNCLASSIFIEDOTRA KJUS KAWC SR MW AL AU NL HR
06PRISTINA765KOSOVO: 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 16:53:00Embassy PristinaSECRETPGOV PREL KDEM UNMIK YI
06PRISTINA766KOSOVO: 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 16:53:00Embassy PristinaCONFIDENTIALPREL 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 16:01:00Embassy PristinaUNCLASSIFIEDOTRA 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 16:01:00Embassy PristinaUNCLASSIFIEDPARM PREL ETT YI MIK
06PRISTINA779KOSOVO: 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 09:49:00Embassy PristinaCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL KDEM UNMIK YI
06PRISTINA780KOSOVO: 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 09:57:00Embassy PristinaCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL KDEM UNMIK YI
06PRISTINA781KOSOVO: 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 15:44:00Embassy PristinaCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL PINR PHUM KDEM UNMIK YI
06PRISTINA782KOSOVO 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 12:24:00Embassy PristinaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL KCRM PGOV PINR KDEM UNMIK YI
06PRISTINA788KOSOVO: 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 06:57:00Embassy PristinaCONFIDENTIALPGOV 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 07:59:00Embassy PristinaUNCLASSIFIEDOTRA ASEC YI
06PRISTINA802KOSOVO: 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 11:53:00Embassy PristinaCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL UNMIK YI
06PRISTINA803KOSOVO: 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 14:46:00Embassy PristinaCONFIDENTIALPREL KCRM PGOV PINR KDEM UNMIK YI
06PRISTINA804KOSOVO: 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 16:17:00Embassy PristinaCONFIDENTIALPGOV KJUS KCRM EAID KDEM UNMIK YI
06PRISTINA808KOSOVO: 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 08:07:00Embassy PristinaUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV PREL KDEM UNMIK YI
06PRISTINA811COUNTRY 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 14:31:00Embassy PristinaUNCLASSIFIEDASEC OTRA PREL EUN AU SE NATO US
06PRISTINA813KOSOVO: 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 09:04:00Embassy PristinaCONFIDENTIALPGOV 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 14:12:00Embassy PristinaUNCLASSIFIEDASEC EUN
06PRISTINA833KOSOVO: 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 18:29:00Embassy PristinaCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL KDEM UNMIK YI
06PRISTINA836KOSOVO: 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 16:55:00Embassy PristinaCONFIDENTIALPGOV KDEM KCRM UNMIK YI
06PRISTINA842KOSOVO: 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 18:32:00Embassy PristinaCONFIDENTIALPGOV 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 08:52:00Embassy PristinaUNCLASSIFIEDOTRA HR AMGT YI
06PRISTINA846KOSOVO: 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 16:07:00Embassy PristinaCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL UNMIK YI
06PRISTINA847KOSOVO: 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 11:27:00Embassy PristinaCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL UNMIK YI
06PRISTINA853FERIZAJ 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 14:33:00Embassy PristinaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL KCRM PGOV PINR KDEM UNMIK YI
06PRISTINA854KOSOVO: 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 16:13:00Embassy PristinaCONFIDENTIALPGOV 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 14:56:00Embassy PristinaUNCLASSIFIEDAMGT 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 09:37:00Embassy PristinaUNCLASSIFIEDOTRA 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 16:40:00Embassy PristinaUNCLASSIFIEDOTRA AL SR
06PRISTINA862KOSOVO: 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 17:07:00Embassy PristinaCONFIDENTIALPGOV KJUS KCRM EAID KDEM UNMIK YI
06PRISTINA863KOSOVO: 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 17:14:00Embassy PristinaUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV 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 12:59:00Embassy PristinaUNCLASSIFIEDASEC OTRA AU CR FI PREL SR
06PRISTINA881SUPPORT 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 12:43:00Embassy PristinaCONFIDENTIALPGOV 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 09:19:00Embassy PristinaUNCLASSIFIEDEINV OTRA OPIC XB XC XE
06PRISTINA905KOSOVO: 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 11:59:00Embassy PristinaCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNPGOV KDEM PREL UNMIK YI
06PRISTINA906KOSOVO: 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 14:38:00Embassy PristinaCONFIDENTIALPGOV KJUS KCRM EAID KDEM UNMIK YI
06PRISTINA909KOSOVO: 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 16:32:00Embassy PristinaCONFIDENTIALPGOV 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 10:33:00Embassy PristinaUNCLASSIFIEDOREP 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 10:40:00Embassy PristinaUNCLASSIFIEDOTRA UN KCRM
06PRISTINA921KOSOVO: 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 07:11:00Embassy PristinaCONFIDENTIALPGOV KJUS KCRM EAID KDEM UNMIK YI
06PRISTINA923KOSOVO: 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 14:44:00Embassy PristinaCONFIDENTIALPGOV KJUS KCRM EAID KDEM UNMIK YI
06PRISTINA924KOSOVO: 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 14:52:00Embassy PristinaCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNPREL KCRM PGOV PINR KDEM PREF UNMIK YI
06PRISTINA930KOSOVO: 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 12:34:00Embassy PristinaCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL UNMIK YI
06PRISTINA933KOSOVO: 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 16:27:00Embassy PristinaCONFIDENTIALPGOV KJUS KCRM EAID KDEM UNMIK YI
06PRISTINA947KOSOVO: 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 13:20:00Embassy PristinaCONFIDENTIALPREF PGOV EAID PREL UNMIK YI
06PRISTINA948KOSOVO: 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 13:24:00Embassy PristinaCONFIDENTIALPREF 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 10:18:00Embassy PristinaUNCLASSIFIEDOTRA ASEC AMGT
06PRISTINA952KOSOVO: 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 10:40:00Embassy PristinaCONFIDENTIALPGOV 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 13:18:00Embassy PristinaUNCLASSIFIEDOTRA 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 15:45:00Embassy PristinaUNCLASSIFIEDOTRA AMGT
06PRISTINA965KOSOVO: 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 18:30:00Embassy PristinaCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL UNMIK YI
06PRISTINA967KOSOVO: 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 18:46:00Embassy PristinaCONFIDENTIALPGOV KJUS KCRM EAID KDEM UNMIK YI
06PRISTINA971KOSOVO: 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 18:10:00Embassy PristinaCONFIDENTIALPGOV KJUS KCRM EAID KDEM UNMIK YI
06PRISTINA972KOSOVO: 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 18:16:00Embassy PristinaCONFIDENTIALPGOV KJUS KCRM EAID KDEM UNMIK YI
06PRISTINA973KOSOVO: 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 06:33:00Embassy PristinaCONFIDENTIALGTIP 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 09:54:00Embassy PristinaUNCLASSIFIEDOTRA AMGT DA YI
06PRISTINA985KOSOVO: 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 14:09:00Embassy PristinaCONFIDENTIALPREL KCRM PGOV PINR KDEM UNMIK YI
06PRISTINA989KOSOVO: 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 14:36:00Embassy PristinaCONFIDENTIALPGOV 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 08:09:00Embassy PristinaUNCLASSIFIEDOTRA 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 13:24:00Embassy PristinaUNCLASSIFIEDOREP 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 14:36:00Embassy PristinaUNCLASSIFIEDOTRA ASEC UNMIK SR
07PRISTINA104KOSOVO: 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 14:56:00Embassy PristinaCONFIDENTIALPGOV KJUS KCRM EAID KDEM UNMIK YI
07PRISTINA108KOSOVO: 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 14:34:00Embassy PristinaUNCLASSIFIEDETTC KSTC PARM PREL RO PGOV KJUS KCRM EAID
07PRISTINA112KOSOVO: "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 10:41:00Embassy PristinaCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL UNMIK YI
07PRISTINA113KOSOVO: 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 11:01:00Embassy PristinaCONFIDENTIALPGOV KJUS KCRM EAID KDEM UNMIK YI
07PRISTINA114KOSOVO: 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 11:06:00Embassy PristinaCONFIDENTIALECPS ECON PREL YI
07PRISTINA115KOSOVO: 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 12:34:00Embassy PristinaCONFIDENTIALPGOV KDEM UNMIK YI
07PRISTINA118COM 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 17:31:00Embassy PristinaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYKCRM 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 10:08:00Embassy PristinaUNCLASSIFIEDAL 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 16:32:00Embassy PristinaUNCLASSIFIEDOTRA YI
07PRISTINA126KOSOVO: 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 16:37:00Embassy PristinaCONFIDENTIALPHUM 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 14:07:00Embassy PristinaUNCLASSIFIEDOTRA PREL AMGT ASEC SR YI
07PRISTINA141KOSOVO: 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 14:49:00Embassy PristinaCONFIDENTIALPGOV KDEM UNMIK YI
07PRISTINA142KOSOVO: 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 17:40:00Embassy PristinaCONFIDENTIALPGOV KJUS KCRM KDEM MOPS UNMIK YI
07PRISTINA15U.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 15:24:00Embassy PristinaSECRET//NOFORNASEC AMGT ACOA PBTS
07PRISTINA150KOSOVO: 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 13:55:00Embassy PristinaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYKCRM PHUM KWMN ELAB SMIG KFRD PREF PGOV KJUS
07PRISTINA151KOSOVO: 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 15:06:00Embassy PristinaCONFIDENTIALPGOV KJUS KCRM EAID KDEM UNMIK YI
07PRISTINA159KOSOVO: 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 18:08:00Embassy PristinaCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV EAID KDEM UNMIK YI
07PRISTINA161KOSOVO: 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 16:18:00Embassy PristinaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV KJUS EAID KDEM UNMIK YI KPAO
07PRISTINA162KOSOVO 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 16:42:00Embassy PristinaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPHUM PGOV PINR PREL EAID KDEM SOCI UNMIK YI
07PRISTINA163UPDATE 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 16:58:00Embassy PristinaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PREL PREF EAID KDEM UNMIK YI
07PRISTINA164KOSOVO: 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 17:07:00Embassy PristinaCONFIDENTIALPGOV KJUS KCRM EAID KDEM UNMIK YI
07PRISTINA168KOSOVO: 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 12:14:00Embassy PristinaCONFIDENTIALPGOV KJUS KCRM EAID KDEM UNMIK YI
07PRISTINA169KOSOVO 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 15:56:00Embassy PristinaCONFIDENTIALPGOV PINR PREL YI UNMIK
07PRISTINA180KOSOVO: 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 08:11:00Embassy PristinaCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL PHUM KDEM UNMIK YI
07PRISTINA181KOSOVO: ASSEMBLY INVESTIGATES FORMER SPEAKER DACI,
[...] No summary [...]
2007-03-08 08:12:00Embassy PristinaCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL PHUM KDEM UNMIK YI
07PRISTINA186KOSOVO: 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 11:37:00Embassy PristinaCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL PHUM SOCI
07PRISTINA187KOSOVO'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 11:50:00Embassy PristinaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYKDEM PGOV PINR PREL YI UNMIK PHUM SOCI KWMN
07PRISTINA188KOSOVO: 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 12:42:00Embassy PristinaCONFIDENTIALPGOV KJUS KCRM EAID KDEM UNMIK YI
07PRISTINA19KOSOVO: 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 16:09:00Embassy PristinaCONFIDENTIALPGOV KJUS KCRM UNMIK YI
07PRISTINA194KOSOVO: 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 11:46:00Embassy PristinaCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV MOPS UNMIK YI
07PRISTINA20KOSOVO: 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 16:45:00Embassy PristinaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYSCUL KCRM PGOV PINR PREL YI UNMIK EAID PHUM
07PRISTINA200KOSOVO: 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 18:07:00Embassy PristinaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV KJUS KCRM EAID KDEM UNMIK YI
07PRISTINA204KOSOVO: 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 12:58:00Embassy PristinaCONFIDENTIALECON ECPS PREL YI
07PRISTINA206KOSOVO: 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 15:44:00Embassy PristinaCONFIDENTIALPGOV 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 15:56:00Embassy PristinaUNCLASSIFIEDOTRA YI
07PRISTINA208KOSOVO: 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 17:50:00Embassy PristinaCONFIDENTIALKCRM KDEM PGOV PINR PREL YI UNMIK EAID PHUM
07PRISTINA21KOSOVO: 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 17:00:00Embassy PristinaCONFIDENTIALPBTS SNAR KCRM KJUS EAID UNMIK YI
07PRISTINA214USOP'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 11:36:00Embassy PristinaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYKPAO 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 08:04:00Embassy PristinaUNCLASSIFIEDAU BE FR OTRA OECD XG XH XT ZL SI
07PRISTINA224KOSOVO 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 13:12:00Embassy PristinaCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL YI UNMIK
07PRISTINA229KOSOVO: 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 15:09:00Embassy PristinaCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNECON 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 13:26:00Embassy PristinaUNCLASSIFIEDOTRA 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 13:35:00Embassy PristinaUNCLASSIFIEDAU OTRA SI UK
07PRISTINA237KOSOVO: 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 16:09:00Embassy PristinaCONFIDENTIALPGOV KPKO PHUM EAID YI
07PRISTINA241COUNTRY 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 07:14:00Embassy PristinaUNCLASSIFIEDAMGT NATO OTRA
07PRISTINA258KOSOVO'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 11:24:00Embassy PristinaCONFIDENTIALKIPR ECON PREL YI
07PRISTINA259KOSOVO: 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 09:53:00Embassy PristinaCONFIDENTIALPGOV KJUS KCRM EAID KDEM UNMIK YI
07PRISTINA260KOSOVO: 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 temporarily its involvement in the multi-billion dollar Kosovo C project, COM told Minister of Energy and Mining Ceku to mend relations with the Bank in order [...]
2007-04-04 10:20:00Embassy PristinaCONFIDENTIALEAID ECON ENRG PGOV PREL YI
07PRISTINA261KOSOVO: UNIFIED ASSEMBLY DECLARES OVERWHELMING
[...] (C) SUMMARY: In a show of overwhelming unity, the Kosovo Assembly declared its support April 5 for UN Special Envoy Ahtisaari's report, committed to implement fully its provisions, and welcomed without reservation the international civilian and security presence that will be established in Ko [...]
2007-04-05 12:51:00Embassy PristinaCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL KDEM UNMIK YI
07PRISTINA264KOSOVO: ANOTHER PRIORITY STANDARD FULFILLED
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: On April 4, Kosovo's Provisional Institutions of Self-Government approved a report requested by Prime Minister Agim Ceku evaluating the costs to repair 23 commercial properties (18 owned by Serbs or other minorities and 5 owned by Albanians) damaged during the March 2004 anti-S [...]
2007-04-06 16:40:00Embassy PristinaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV KJUS KCRM EAID KDEM UNMIK YI
07PRISTINA27KOSOVO: PUBLIC OUTREACH WORKING GROUP PREPARES
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The Working Group on Public Outreach, chaired by OSCE Ambassador Wnendt and supported by USOP, has agreed to a two-phased approach in relation to UN Envoy Ahtisaari's presentation of the final status package: an initial, "simple message" campaign -- via billboards and PSAs -- [...]
2007-01-12 14:13:00Embassy PristinaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYKJUS EAID KDEM UNMIK YI PGOV
07PRISTINA273KOSOVO: TRANSITION WORKING GROUPS MOVE FORWARD,
[...] (C) SUMMARY: The nine transition working groups set up by UNMIK, the core team for the post-UNMIK International Civilian Office, USOP, and the Kosovo government have focused attention on necessary actions required to be taken by the Kosovo government in time for UNMIK's departure. The first [...]
2007-04-11 15:43:00Embassy PristinaCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL EAID KDEM UNMIK YI
07PRISTINA275 COUNTRY CLEARANCE GRANTED TO MR. DANIEL L. MEGES AND SUSAN
[...] US Office Pristina welcomes and grants country clearance to Economic Officers, Daniel L. Meges and Susan E. Anderson to visit Pristina April 15 - April 18, 2007. The purpose of the visit is for consultations with mission officials. Control Officer for this visit will be Economic Officer, Shan [...]
2007-04-12 06:33:00Embassy PristinaUNCLASSIFIEDOTRA HR AMGT SR
07PRISTINA276 COUNTRY CLEARANCE GRANTED TO INL JENNIFER FIORELLO AND
[...] US Office Pristina welcomes and grants country clearance to INL Jennifer Fiorello and David Keefe to visit Pristina April 17 - April 22, 2007. The purpose of the visit is to conduct interviews for leadership positions within the U.S. contingent and conduct consultations with post and UNMIK UN [...]
2007-04-12 06:37:00Embassy PristinaUNCLASSIFIEDOTRA AMGT SR
07PRISTINA277 COUNTRY CLEARANCE GRANTED TO DARREL HART AND LEON
[...] US Office Pristina welcomes and grants country clearance to ICITAP Albania Program Manager Darrel Hart and Leon Strigotte, ICITAP Advisor to visit Pristina April 12 - April 15, 2007. The purpose of the visit is to review the Police Inspectorate Program that was developed and implemented in 20 [...]
2007-04-12 06:39:00Embassy PristinaUNCLASSIFIEDOTRA AMGT
07PRISTINA278 COUNTRY CLEARANCE GRANTED TO DAN LYNCH
[...] US Office Pristina welcomes and grants country clearance to Mr. Dan Lynch to visit Pristina on April 17-18, 2007. The purpose of the visit is for consultations with USOP. Control Officer for this visit will be Political Officer, AJ Rei-Perrine, who can be reached at: office 381-38-5959-3195; [...]
2007-04-12 06:42:00Embassy PristinaUNCLASSIFIEDPREL OTRA NATO
07PRISTINA279 COUNTRY CLEARANCE GRANTED TO KATRINA MOSSER
[...] US Office Pristina welcomes and grants country clearance to Ms. Katrina Mosser to visit Pristina on April 17-18, 2007. The purpose of the visit is attend "Contact Group Plus" Conference. Control Officer for this visit will be Political Officer, AJ Rei-Perrine, who can be reached at: office 3 [...]
2007-04-12 06:43:00Embassy PristinaUNCLASSIFIEDOTRA ASEC AMGT
07PRISTINA280 COUNTRY CLEARANCE GRANTED TO JOHN L. ESPINOZA
[...] US Office Pristina welcomes and grants country clearance to Mr. John L. Espinoza to visit Pristina on April 17-18, 2007. The purpose of the visit is to attend "Contact Group Plus" Conference. Control Officer for this visit will be Political Officer, AJ Rei-Perrine, who can be reached at: offi [...]
2007-04-12 06:44:00Embassy PristinaUNCLASSIFIEDOTRA FR
07PRISTINA281KOSOVO: GROWING PRESSURE ON AND FROM KOSOVO SERBS,
[...] (C) SUMMARY: Recent instances in which Kosovo Serb officials have refused to accept U.S. assistance if Kosovo Albanians are involved in the projects or in the provision of USOP/USAID security suggest that these communities are coming under increased and deliberate pressure from Belgrade and t [...]
2007-04-12 08:01:00Embassy PristinaCONFIDENTIALPGOV KJUS KCRM EAID KDEM UNMIK YI
07PRISTINA284 COUNTRY CLEARANCE GRANTED TO DEMIAN SMITH AND KATHERINE
[...] US Office Pristina welcomes and grants country clearance to Mr. Demian Smith and Ms. Katherine Gribble to visit Pristina on April 17-18, 2007. The purpose of the visit is to attend "Contact Group Plus" Conference. Control Officer for this visit will be Political Officer, AJ Rei-Perrine, who [...]
2007-04-12 13:00:00Embassy PristinaUNCLASSIFIEDOTRA ASEC GM
07PRISTINA285 COUNTRY CLEARANCE GRANTED TO MICHAEL MARTIN
[...] US Office Pristina welcomes and grants country clearance to Mr. Michael Martin to visit Pristina on April 17-18, 2007. The purpose of the visit is to attend "Contact Group Plus" Conference. Control Officer for this visit will be Political Officer, AJ Rei-Perrine, who can be reached at: offic [...]
2007-04-12 13:01:00Embassy PristinaUNCLASSIFIEDOTRA ASEC GM
07PRISTINA286 COUNTRY CLEARANCE GRANTED TO HOLLY SCHWENDLER
[...] US Office Pristina welcomes and grants country clearance to Ms. Holly Schwendler to visit Pristina on April 17-18, 2007. The purpose of the visit is to attend "Contact Group Plus" Conference. Control Officer for this visit will be Political Officer, AJ Rei-Perrine, who can be reached at: offi [...]
2007-04-12 13:02:00Embassy PristinaUNCLASSIFIEDOTRA EUN PREL NATO ASEC SR YI
07PRISTINA29KOSOVO: DACI AND HIS SUPPORTERS CREATE A
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Former Kosovo Assembly president Nexhat Daci and his supporters announced January 12 the creation of a new political "entity" called the Democratic League (LD). Daci told reporters the Democratic League will be "a continuation of the party created and run by former President Ib [...]
2007-01-12 17:54:00Embassy PristinaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV KDEM KCRM KJUS UNMIK YI
07PRISTINA290 COUNTRY CLEARANCE GRANTED TO PAULA S. THIEDE
[...] US Office Pristina welcomes and grants country clearance to Ms. Paula S. Thiede to visit Pristina on April 17-18, 2007. The purpose of the visit is to attend "Contact Group Plus" Conference. Control Officer for this visit will be Political Officer, AJ Rei-Perrine, who can be reached at: offi [...]
2007-04-13 08:06:00Embassy PristinaUNCLASSIFIEDOTRA ASEC AMGT
07PRISTINA291 COUNTRY CLEARANCE GRANTED TO GABRIEL ESCOBAR
[...] US Office Pristina welcomes and grants country clearance to Gabriel Escobar to visit Pristina on April 17-18, 2007. The purpose of the visit is to attend "Contact Group Plus" Conference. Control Officer for this visit will be Political Officer, AJ Rei-Perrine, who can be reached at: office 3 [...]
2007-04-13 08:09:00Embassy PristinaUNCLASSIFIEDOTRA ASEC AMGT IT SR
07PRISTINA293KOSOVO: UNMIK REQUEST FOR USG ASSISTANCE IN
[...] (C) UNMIK CivPol Commissioner Richard Monk has asked USOP for assistance in persuading the governments of Denmark and Norway to extend the tours of two civilian police officers deemed mission-essential. We concur with Monk that the extension of these two officers, and possibly additional pers [...]
2007-04-13 12:57:00Embassy PristinaCONFIDENTIALPGOV KJUS KCRM EAID KDEM UNMIK YI
07PRISTINA300 COUNTRY CLEARANCE GRANTED TO MR. DANIEL FURLONG
[...] US Office Pristina welcomes and grants country clearance to TSA Representative Daniel Furlong to visit Pristina April 23 - April 27, 2007. The purpose of the visit is to meet with mission and government officials to discuss aviation security matters. Control Officer for this visit will be Ec [...]
2007-04-17 08:22:00Embassy PristinaUNCLASSIFIEDEAIR ASEC PTER ECON OTRA KHLS KO
07PRISTINA301 COUNTRY CLEARANCE GRANTED TO AMBASSADOR FRANK WISNER AND
[...] (SBU) US Office Pristina warmly welcomes and grants country clearance to Ambassador Frank G. Wisner, Special Representative of the Department of State for Kosovo Final Status Issues, and his assistant, Patrick Hanish, to visit Pristina April 26 - April 27, 2007. The purpose of the visit is f [...]
2007-04-17 16:32:00Embassy PristinaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL PGOV ASEC EG KSAC AU QA OTRA
07PRISTINA303KOSOVO: CODEL ROHRABACHER SUPPORTS AHTISAARI,
[...] (C) SUMMARY: In Kosovo April 14-15, Rep. Dana Rohrabacher (R-CA) conveyed a strong message of support for UN Special Envoy Ahtisaari's package, saying it was past time for Kosovo's status to be resolved. In meetings with Kosovo officials, UNMIK, OSCE and US KFOR, Rohrabacher also stressed th [...]
2007-04-18 11:03:00Embassy PristinaCONFIDENTIALPGOV KJUS KCRM EAID KDEM UNMIK YI
07PRISTINA304KOSOVO DELEGATION PRAISES EXPORT CONTROL
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: UNMIK Customs Directors Malcolm Brown and Ekrem Hajdari, upon return from their highly rewarding participation in a U.S.-funded conference, queried us on the status of what they described as an EXBS offer to provide Kosovo with a mobile scanner in 2007. They were delighted wi [...]
2007-04-18 11:08:00Embassy PristinaCONFIDENTIALPGOV KJUS KCRM EAID KDEM UNMIK YI
07PRISTINA306KOSOVO TAKING PROACTIVE APPROACH FOR DONORS
[...] (SBU) Summary. In preparation for a donors conference, the PISG hopes to complete the draft of the Medium Term Expenditure Framework by late April and have a final document by late May highlighting Kosovo's development needs and priorities. The PISG started discussions with the IMF on April 1 [...]
2007-04-18 14:30:00Embassy PristinaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEAID ECON PGOV YI
07PRISTINA307KOSOVO TAKING PROACTIVE APPROACH FOR DONORS
[...] (SBU) Summary. In preparation for a donors conference, the PISG hopes to complete the draft of the Medium Term Expenditure Framework by late April and have a final document by late May highlighting Kosovo's development needs and priorities. The PISG started discussions with the IMF on April 1 [...]
2007-04-18 14:40:00Embassy PristinaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEAID ECON PGOV YI
07PRISTINA309 COUNTRY CLEARANCE GRANTED TO MR. PETER NICHOLL
[...] US Office Pristina welcomes and grants country clearance to Treasury Representative Peter Nicholl to visit Pristina April 22 - April 26, 2007. The purpose of the visit is to follow up on Mr. Nicholl's assessment mission last year to the Central Bank of Kosovo by participating in meetings with [...]
2007-04-19 13:05:00Embassy PristinaUNCLASSIFIEDOTRA AMGT ASEC
07PRISTINA316 COUNTRY CLEARANCE GRANTED TO RYAN C. LEONG
[...] US Office Pristina welcomes and grants country clearance to Political Officer Ryan C. Leong to visit Pristina April 22 - 24, 2007. The purpose of the visit is to provide temporary support to the mission. Control Officer for this visit will be Political Officer, David Whiddon, who can be reac [...]
2007-04-20 11:28:00Embassy PristinaUNCLASSIFIEDOTRA AMGT ASEC
07PRISTINA319 COUNTRY CLEARANCE GRANTED TO USUN PROTECTIVE DETAIL
[...] (SBU) US Office Pristina welcomes and grants country clearance to DS Detail Advance Agent Robert Little to visit Pristina in April 2007. He will be traveling on dignitary protection blanket orders. Control Officer for this visit will be Assistant Regional Security Officer, Phil Nazelrod, who [...]
2007-04-23 09:36:00Embassy PristinaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYASEC OVIP
07PRISTINA32KOSOVO SEEKS TO MAINTAIN MOMENTUM IN DEVELOPING
[...] (SBU) Summary. The Kosovo/World Bank energy sector development project, known as the Lignite Power Technical Assistance Project (LPTAP),has made some progress, but ensuring coordination between UNMIK/PISG and the international community on the way to move forward remains a challenge. The PI [...]
2007-01-17 11:44:00Embassy PristinaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON EMIN ENRG PGOV PREL YI
07PRISTINA323KOSOVO SERBS REACT POSITIVELY TO USG-FUNDED
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY. On April 19, COM inaugurated three USAID projects in Serb-majority northern Kosovo. These included renovations to both the Technical Sciences faculty and the technical high school in northern Mitrovica, along with the construction of a new water reservoir and water distributio [...]
2007-04-24 16:29:00Embassy PristinaCONFIDENTIALKCRM KDEM PGOV PINR PREL YI UNMIK EAID PHUM
07PRISTINA328 COUNTRY CLEARANCE GRANTED TO AMBASSADOR JAMES P. CAIN AND
[...] US Office Pristina welcomes and grants country clearance to U.S. Ambassador to Denmark James P. Cain and Embassy Copenhagen Army Attach COL. Michael Schleicher to visit Pristina May 2-3, 2007. The visit is part of a multinational ambassadorial delegation invited by the government of Denmark to [...]
2007-04-25 13:57:00Embassy PristinaUNCLASSIFIEDOTRA AMGT DA YI
07PRISTINA329 COUNTRY CLEARANCE GRANTED TO HENRY KELLEY
[...] US Office Pristina welcomes and grants country clearance to Henry Kelley, U.S. Coordinator - Stability Pact for Southeastern Europe to visit Pristina May 6-9, 2007. The purpose of the visit is to consult with post on U.S. assistance programs and would appreciate the opportunity to conduct sit [...]
2007-04-26 06:47:00Embassy PristinaUNCLASSIFIEDPREL ECON OTRA EUN
07PRISTINA331KOSOVO: NEW APPROACH NEEDED TO HELP
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: A year after the opening of Osterode camp, a USG-funded medical treatment facility for lead-poisoned Roma in northern Mitrovica, 134 Roma ) including 69 children ) still live in the highly contaminated Cesmin Lug camp for internally displaced persons (IDPs). Thirty-one children [...]
2007-04-26 15:41:00Embassy PristinaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEAID PGOV PREF SENV YI KCRS UNMIK
07PRISTINA336KOSOVO: SECURITY COUNCIL VISIT TO KOSOVO LEAVES
[...] (C) SUMMARY: Whatever Russian hopes may have been for an April 27-28 UN Security Council trip that would leave permreps more sympathetic to the plight of Kosovo Serbs and hostile to the prospect of Kosovo independence, it appears that goal was not achieved; instead, delegation members appear [...]
2007-04-30 09:52:00Embassy PristinaCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL UNMIK UNSC YI
07PRISTINA34 COUNTRY CLEARANCE GRANTED TO HASSAN AHMED
[...] US Office Pristina welcomes and grants country clearance to Hassan Ahmed, Regional Agricultural Attache to visit Pristina January 23 - 26, 2007. The purpose of the visit is to overview USDA/FAS programs and activities in Kosovo. Control Officer for this visit will be Economic Officer, Shante [...]
2007-01-17 13:06:00Embassy PristinaUNCLASSIFIEDEAGR OTRA BU SR MW YI
07PRISTINA340 COUNTRY CLEARANCE GRANTED TO AMBASSADOR WARE AND DEFENSE
[...] US Office Pristina welcomes and grants country clearance to U.S. Ambassador to Finland Marilyn Ware and Embassy Finland Defense Attach COL. Joy Shasteen to visit Pristina May 8-10, 2007. The purpose of the visit is to escort six Finnish NATO tour participants. Point of Contact for this visit [...]
2007-05-02 16:44:00Embassy PristinaUNCLASSIFIEDKPAO AORC OTRA ASEC FI
07PRISTINA341 COUNTRY CLEARANCE GRANTED TO REGIONIAL AGRICULTURAL
[...] US Office Pristina welcomes and grants country clearance to Hassan Ahmed, Regional Agricultural Attache to visit Pristina May 9 - 11, 2007. The purpose of the visit is to overview USDA/FAS programs and activities in Kosovo. Control Officer for this visit will be Economic Officer, Shante Moore [...]
2007-05-02 16:45:00Embassy PristinaUNCLASSIFIEDEAGR OTRA BU SR MW YI
07PRISTINA348KOSOVO: BALKAN WATCHERS' CONFERENCE BRINGS USG
[...] (U) This is a joint Embassy Belgrade-US Office Pristina message. 2. (SBU) SUMMARY: On April 16-18, Balkans watchers from Embassies Berlin, Paris, Rome, Skopje, USEU, and USNATO participated in familiarization visits to both Belgrade and Pristina. Co-hosted by Embassy Belgrade and US Office [...]
2007-05-03 15:16:00Embassy PristinaUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV KJUS KCRM EAID KDEM UNMIK YI
07PRISTINA349KOSOVO: 3,000 RALLY IN PRISTINA FOR FORMER PM AND
[...] (C) SUMMARY: An estimated 3,000 people rallied peacefully in Pristina during lunch hour on May 2 in support of ICTY indictee and former Prime Minister Ramush Haradinaj. Some high-level officials of Haradinaj's Alliance for the Future of Kosovo (AAK) party participated, as well as prominent m [...]
2007-05-03 16:01:00Embassy PristinaCONFIDENTIALPGOV KJUS KCRM EAID KDEM UNMIK YI
07PRISTINA353 COUNTRY CLEARANCE GRANTED TO MR. KEITH CLARK AND MS. LINDA
[...] US Office Pristina welcomes and grants country clearance to Treasury Advisors Mr. Keith Clark and Ms. Linda Decker to visit Pristina May 21 - June 1, 2007. The purpose of the visit is to hold capital budgeting courses in Pristina. Control Officer for this visit will be Economic Officer, Shant [...]
2007-05-04 09:05:00Embassy PristinaUNCLASSIFIEDOTRA ASEC YI
07PRISTINA357 COUNTRY CLEARANCE GRANTED TO ABIOLA ADEYEMI
[...] US Office Pristina welcomes and grants country clearance to International Affairs Specialist Abiola Adeyemi to visit Pristina May 9 - May 11, 2007. The purpose of the visit is to develop Borlaug Scientific Exchange Program and conduct interviews of 2007 Borlaug Program applicants. Control Off [...]
2007-05-04 12:11:00Embassy PristinaUNCLASSIFIEDOTRA ASEC YI
07PRISTINA362KOSOVO: FUTURE STAND-UP OF MINISTRY OF FOREIGN
[...] (C) SUMMARY: The Office of the Prime Minister (OPM) has the lead and has made progress on plans to stand up a new Kosovo Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) after the status decision is made. Budget, organizational structure, and necessary legislation have already been drafted as part of the [...]
2007-05-07 15:29:00Embassy PristinaCONFIDENTIALPGOV KJUS KCRM EAID KDEM UNMIK YI
07PRISTINA37 COUNTRY CLEARANCE GRANTED TO DANIEL ROSENBLUM, DOROTHY
[...] US Office Pristina welcomes and grants country clearance to EUR/ACE Deputy Coordinator, Daniel Rosenblum, Dorothy Mayhew, Program Officer for Kosovo and Albania, and Mary Stewart, Program and Budget Division Director to visit Pristina January 21 - 24, 2007. The purpose of the visit is to rev [...]
2007-01-18 13:14:00Embassy PristinaUNCLASSIFIEDOTRA YI AL
07PRISTINA375 COUNTRY CLEARANCE GRANTED TO J. RANDY MANEY, RONALD
[...] US Office Pristina welcomes and grants country clearance to Financial Enforcement Advisors Mr. Ronald Cleaver, Gary Kruchten and J. Randy Maney to visit Pristina May 30 - June 10, 2007. The purpose of the visit is to conduct a Financial Investigative Techniques (FIT) training course in Prist [...]
2007-05-15 06:17:00Embassy PristinaUNCLASSIFIEDOTRA ASEC YI
07PRISTINA379KOSOVO ALBANIANS COMMEMORATE KOSOVO'S NEW MISSING
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY. The Kosovo government officially recognized April 27 as Missing Persons Day. By changing the date from the internationally-observed August 30 to the anniversary of one of the largest massacres of Kosovo Albanians in 1999, the government scored some unnecessary PR points again [...]
2007-05-15 12:38:00Embassy PristinaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYKCRM KDEM PGOV PINR PREL YI UNMIK EAID PHUM
07PRISTINA380KOSOVO: UNITY TEAM SET TO APPROVE INTERIM PASSPORT
[...] (C) SUMMARY: After much prodding from UNMIK and USOP, the Kosovo government has scrapped plans to produce an expensive biometric passport in favor of an interim solution, far more practical, that essentially represents a revision of the current UNMIK travel document. UNMIK sources tell us the [...]
2007-05-15 15:46:00Embassy PristinaCONFIDENTIALPGOV KJUS KCRM EAID KDEM UNMIK YI
07PRISTINA386KOSOVO CHURCH RECONSTRUCTION UNDER ATTACK BY SERB
[...] (C) SUMMARY. The work of Kosovo's highly successful Reconstruction Implementation Commission for Serbian Orthodox Religious Sites in Kosovo (RIC) is grinding to a halt due to attacks from the hardline Serbian government representative on the commission, in coordination with the intractable Ser [...]
2007-05-17 15:28:00Embassy PristinaCONFIDENTIALKCRM KDEM PGOV PINR PREL YI UNMIK EAID PHUM
07PRISTINA387 COUNTRY CLEARANCE GRANTED TO INR/B GONZALEZ AND POLITICAL
[...] US Office Pristina welcomes and grants country clearance to INR/B Officer Ana-Christina Gonzalez and Political Officer Brooke Waldron to visit Pristina May 29-June 2, 2007. The purpose of the visit is to consult with and debrief USOP officials on the final status process, governing and opposi [...]
2007-05-18 07:31:00Embassy PristinaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPINR OTRA EUN AU BE SR
07PRISTINA392KOSOVO: KOSOVO PROTECTION CORPS (KPC) COORDINATOR
[...] (C) SUMMARY: The United Nations Development Program (UNDP) held a May 10 briefing in Pristina on what it said was an "urgent requirement" to fund the Office of the Kosovo Protection Corps Coordinator (OKPCC),an UNMIK organization, for one year after status. KPC Coordinator Major General Syk [...]
2007-05-18 16:11:00Embassy PristinaCONFIDENTIALPGOV MASS EAID KDEM UNMIK YI
07PRISTINA404KOSOVO: SERB RETURNS HAMPERED BY A COMPLEX MIX OF
[...] (C) SUMMARY: There have been 16,458 cases of known minority returns to Kosovo since the 1999 conflict out of an estimated population of 230,000 displaced persons. Current impediments include most prominently lack of employment opportunities, concerns (real and exaggerated) over security, poo [...]
2007-05-22 14:49:00Embassy PristinaCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNPGOV PREF UNMIK EAID YI
07PRISTINA405KOSOVO: POOR POE BOARD NOMINATIONS RAISE CONCERNS
[...] No summary [...]
2007-05-22 15:21:00Embassy PristinaCONFIDENTIALECON KPRV ENRG PGOV PREL YI
07PRISTINA406KOSOVO: DRAFT KPC EARLY RETIREMENT LAW: FISCALLY
[...] (C) Summary. The initial draft Kosovo Protection Corps (KPC) early retirement law is a fiscally irresponsible, poorly-written piece of legislation that potentially provides beneficiaries with life-long pensions and free primary health all KPC members who would not be eligible to join the Kosov [...]
2007-05-22 15:36:00Embassy PristinaCONFIDENTIALECON PGOV PREL YI
07PRISTINA407THE ROAD AND THE WALL: GETTING THE GOVERNMENT TO
[...] (C) SUMMARY: Two issues that have seen recent negative developments -- plans to construct a road near the Decani Monastery, linking western Kosovo to Montenegro, and controversy over the building of a security wall around the Pec Patriarchate -- foreshadow the difficulties regarding implement [...]
2007-05-22 15:47:00Embassy PristinaCONFIDENTIALPGOV KJUS KCRM EAID KDEM UNMIK YI
07PRISTINA413KOSOVO SERB AND ALBANIAN FAMILIES OF THE MISSING
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: For the first time in over a year, family members of missing Kosovo Serbs and Kosovo Albanians met jointly with representatives of the Government of Serbia, the PISG, and UNMIK at a May 16-17 conference in Macedonia, organized by the International Commission on Missing Persons [...]
2007-05-25 09:56:00Embassy PristinaCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNPGOV KJUS KCRM EAID KDEM UNMIK YI
07PRISTINA414KOSOVO: REAL WORK ON NOVEMBER ELECTIONS NEEDS TO
[...] (C) SUMMARY: The Transition Working Group on Elections has finished work and submitted a report of its four months of deliberations at the May 21 meeting of the Strategic Group on Transition, headed by UNMIK SRSG Joachim Ruecker. While there was early agreement on proportional voting based on [...]
2007-05-28 15:37:00Embassy PristinaCONFIDENTIALPGOV KDEM EAID UNMIK YI
07PRISTINA428KOSOVO: POST-INDEPENDENCE SERB-RELATED CHALLENGES
[...] (C) SUMMARY: The eventual declaration of Kosovo's independence, as we have always anticipated, will pose a number of challenges on the ground given continuing Belgrade and Kosovo Serb refusal to countenance any settlement based on the Ahtisaari plan or to accept the end of Serbian sovereignt [...]
2007-06-01 16:47:00Embassy PristinaCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL UNMIK UNSC YI
07PRISTINA444KOSOVO: FIVE TRAFFICKING SUSPECTS RECEIVE A TOTAL
[...] (C) SUMMARY: Kosovo media reported on May 29 that the Pristina Regional Court sentenced five people accused of trafficking in persons (TIP) to a total of 19 years in prison, ranging from 7.6 years for the group's ringleader to 2 years for a Moldovan woman whom the Kosovo Police Service (KPS) [...]
2007-06-05 17:06:00Embassy PristinaCONFIDENTIALGTIP KJUS KCRM EAID KDEM UNMIK YI
07PRISTINA453KOSOVO: ALBIN KURTI INDICTED FOR FEBRUARY 10 RIOT,
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: An international prosecutor filed an indictment against Vetevendosje/Self-Determination Movement (SDM) leader Albin Kurti in the Pristina District Court on June 4, 2007 for crimes related to the violent February 10 SDM demonstration in Pristina. Although the indictment recomme [...]
2007-06-08 17:19:00Embassy PristinaCONFIDENTIALPGOV KJUS KCRM EAID KDEM UNMIK YI
07PRISTINA464KOSOVO'S SOUTHERN SERBS INCREASINGLY RESISTANT TO
[...] (C) SUMMARY. During a series of meetings in the southern enclaves in mid-to-late May, Kosovo Serbs continued to exhibit a strong degree of denial about the imminence of a status decision, expressing firm belief in Russia's ability to halt or at least delay independence. Serbs in the future [...]
2007-06-13 11:50:00Embassy PristinaCONFIDENTIALKCRM KDEM PGOV PINR PREL YI UNMIK EAID PHUM
07PRISTINA469KOSOVO: WORLD BANK'S IFC INVOLVEMENT IN KOSOVO C
[...] (C) Summary. The proposal from the World Bank's International Finance Corporation (IFC) to take a 10 percent equity stake in one of the consortia short-listed to compete for the Kosovo C energy sector development tender has raised concerns within UNMIK, the PISG and USOP about the fairness, i [...]
2007-06-14 15:33:00Embassy PristinaCONFIDENTIALEINV ENRG ECON PGOV PREL AID YI
07PRISTINA477KOSOVO FINAL STATUS: SPECIAL ENVOY WISNER FINDS
[...] (C) SUMMARY: In Pristina June 14-17, USG Special Envoy for Kosovo Amb. Frank Wisner delivered a message to Kosovo Albanian national and local political leaders, businesspeople, media, academics, and religious figures that the quality of Kosovo's independence is as important as the speed at whi [...]
2007-06-19 14:28:00Embassy PristinaCONFIDENTIALPGOV KJUS KCRM EAID KDEM UNMIK YI
07PRISTINA489KOSOVO: EUPT PROPOSES BROAD TRAINING CONCEPT FOR
[...] (C) SUMMARY: A recent weeklong course in Finland for candidates for the anticipated Kosovo European Security and Defense Policy (ESDP) mission covered ESDP concepts, the goals of the Kosovo ESDP mission, an overview of rule of law sectors in Kosovo, Kosovo-specific case studies, and the missi [...]
2007-06-22 13:07:00Embassy PristinaCONFIDENTIALAORC KCRM KJUS PGOV PINS YI UNMIK KCRS
07PRISTINA490KOSOVO: UNITY TEAM UNDER MOUNTING PRESSURE
[...] (C) SUMMARY: Media attacks against Kosovo's fragile Unity Team (UT),composed of leading governing and opposition figures, are becoming an almost daily occurrence, as public frustration mounts over the continued uncertainty of final status. In the face of what is perceived here to be backsli [...]
2007-06-22 15:05:00Embassy PristinaCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL UNMIK YI
07PRISTINA492KOSOVO: KFOR AND UNMIK POLICE BRIEF ON READINESS
[...] (C) SUMMARY: The KFOR commander and UNMIK police commissioner recently provided updates on their readiness posture as the status process moves into July and beyond. Both have focused on immediate challenges, including the June 23-28 presence in Kosovo of "marchers" from Serbia who will culmin [...]
2007-06-25 07:50:00Embassy PristinaCONFIDENTIALPGOV KJUS KCRM EAID KDEM UNMIK YI
07PRISTINA50KOSOVO: AFTER A HEATED PRE-ELECTION CAMPAIGN,
[...] (C) SUMMARY. In the run-up to the January 21 Serbian parliamentary elections, Serbia-based political parties have been actively campaigning in Kosovo, and some even include Kosovo Serbs as candidates on their electoral lists. In the past weeks, there have been peaceful rallies in Serb-majorit [...]
2007-01-19 17:32:00Embassy PristinaCONFIDENTIALKCRM KDEM PGOV PINR PREL YI UNMIK EAID PHUM
07PRISTINA502KOSOVO: UNMIK SEEKS SUPPORT FOR OBSERVER STATUS TO
[...] (U) Acting DSRSG Paul Acda wrote to COM June 21 asking for United States Customs Service's support for UNMIK's request for observer status to the Brussels-based World Customs Organization. 2. (U) The text of Acda's direct request to WCO General Director Michel Danet follows. BEGIN TEXT: [...]
2007-06-29 09:45:00Embassy PristinaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV KJUS KCRM EAID KHLS UNMIK YI
07PRISTINA503KOSOVO: CONSTITUTIONAL DRAFTING CONFERENCE FOCUSES
[...] (C) SUMMARY: Presentations by U.S. experts at a June 13-16 meeting in Skopje of the expanded pre-constitution working group organized by the OSCE Mission in Kosovo and supported by USAID/Kosovo (and attended by, among others, representatives of Kosovo's Serb community) have sparked discussion [...]
2007-06-29 10:10:00Embassy PristinaCONFIDENTIALPGOV KJUS EAID KDEM UNMIK YI
07PRISTINA504KOSOVO: ALBANIAN TEEN ATTACK ON ELDERLY KOSOVO
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: On June 12, an eighteen-year old Albanian punched his elderly Kosovo Serb neighbor in the face, breaking her nose. Police arrested the perpetrator the same day, but released him less than 72 hours later since the municipal public prosecutor did not seek detention on remand. Th [...]
2007-06-29 14:49:00Embassy PristinaCONFIDENTIALPGOV KJUS KCRM KDEM PHUM UNMIK YI
07PRISTINA506KOSOVO: FAST-TRACKING PLAN UNDERWAY FOR TRANSITION
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Under the Ahtisaari Plan, the Kosovo Assembly must pass a number of laws during the established 120-day transition period. The Assembly's normal pace of doing business is inadequate to do this, so the OSCE, EAR, and NDI, working together as the Assembly Support Initiative (ASI [...]
2007-06-29 15:05:00Embassy PristinaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV EAID KDEM UNMIK YI
07PRISTINA51KOSOVO: PUBLIC OUTREACH CAMPAIGN ON AHTISAARI
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: In its work to garner public support for the final status package in advance of the expected February 2 visit of UN Special Envoy Ahtisaari, the Public Outreach Working Group, composed of OSCE, USOP/USAID, UNMIK, ICO, the Kosovo government and governing and opposition political [...]
2007-01-19 17:49:00Embassy PristinaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV KJUS EAID KDEM UNMIK YI
07PRISTINA520KOSOVO: SUBSTANTIAL NUMBER OF SERBS RETURN TO
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY. A total of 82 Serb villagers from Srpski Babush, located in Ferizaj/Urosevac municipality, returned to their recently-reconstructed homes on Saturday, June 23. Greeted warmly by Ferizaj Mayor Faik Grainca, most returnees told us they are happy with their homes, but some unresol [...]
2007-07-06 12:04:00Embassy PristinaCONFIDENTIALEAID PGOV PREF PRM YI
07PRISTINA521KOSOVO: SERB CHURCH RECONSTRUCTION BACK ON TRACK
[...] (C) SUMMARY. After months of delay, the Reconstruction Implementation Commission for Serbian Orthodox Religious Sites in Kosovo (RIC) met June 21 and approved five new tenders. RIC Project Manager Francisco Montanes is very pleased with Vera Pavlovic Luncharsky, the new Serbian Government re [...]
2007-07-06 12:11:00Embassy PristinaCONFIDENTIALSCUL KCRM PGOV PINR PREL YI UNMIK EAID PHUM
07PRISTINA525KOSOVO: REQUEST FOR PERMISSION TO SHARE ARMY ROTC
[...] (U) This is an action request. See para 3. 2. (U) For the last two years, the American University of Kosovo (AUK) has been running a Reserve Office Training Corps (ROTC)-type program in conjunction with the Kosovo Protection Corps (KPC). AUK is affiliated with the Rochester Institute of T [...]
2007-07-09 08:54:00Embassy PristinaUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV MOPS MASS UNMIK YI
07PRISTINA534KOSOVO: SCENESETTER FOR CODEL BEAN
[...] (U) Your visit to Kosovo comes at the final phase of a prolonged period of negotiation over Kosovo's status, a process led by UN Special Envoy and former Finnish President Martti Ahtisaari. The status negotiation process began in January 2006 with the articulation of basic principles by the [...]
2007-07-10 16:54:00Embassy PristinaUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV PREL UNMIK UNSC