UNMIK/PR/1464
PRISTINA – PDSRSG Larry Rossin today said, “Planning for an orderly transition during 2006 to a new structure for European partnership implementation must be done by all of us as a team in a sensible and measured way that does not absorb massive resources of the Government”. He was addressing the eighth meeting of the Stabilisation and Association Process Tracking Mechanism (STM) in Pristina.
Underscoring that Kosovo was moving forward into a new and critical phase, he stressed that Standards implementation was crucial to developing positive answers to the problems that Kosovo faced. The Government would have much to prove and to demonstrate, including that they had a plan for ensuring a sustainable multiethnic Kosovo where everyone could “live, work, travel and prosper in security and dignity”. Additionally, the Government would be asked to show that it had a plan that would work efficiently and effectively for all people of Kosovo.
“Whatever the outcome of status process may be, the people of Kosovo will have the same needs as they have now, such as good public services, good governance, rule of law, domestic and foreign investment, jobs, stability and security,” the PDSRSG stated.
UNMIK welcomed the new European partnership between Kosovo and the European Commission. A European perspective on the horizon was important for regional stability, the development of democratic governance, protection of rights, as well as for prospects for growth and increasing prosperity.