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Jessen-Petersen's announcement an unthoughtful and dangerous political move

Belgrade, 21 December 2005

The team for political negotiations on the status of Kosovo-Metohija stated today that the announcement by the UN Secretary General's Special Representative Soren Jessen-Petersen on the pending transfer of authority from the field of law enforcement and judiciary to the Kosovo interim institutions is an unthoughtful and dangerous political act.

In the event that that really happens, all efforts of the international community and Belgrade authorities to create an atmosphere of trust and good intentions by launching talks on the future status of the province would be jeopardised. With his announcement, Jessen-Petersen brings into question the provisions of Resolution 1244 of the UN Security Council on reserved powers, as well as certain provisions of the Constitutional Framework for Kosovo-Metohija.

Apart from that, he also disregards article 39 of Kai Eide’s report which explicitly warns about numerous negative consequences of the possible transfer of authority in the areas of law enforcement and judiciary to the interim institutions of Kosovo-Metohija.

At the very beginning of the talks on future status of Kosovo-Metohija such moves go in the favour of extremist politics of the ethnic-Albanian leadership in the province, whose side Jessen-Peterson has unmistakably taken this time.

We are warning him not to do so, and ask him to reconsider his decision, because it puts at hazard Serbs and other non ethnic-Albanian communities in the province, and at the same time it directly makes political talks on the future status of Kosovo-Metohija more difficult.