UNMIK/PR/219
PRISTINA --- Leaders of the United Nations, the European Union as well as members of the Interim Administrative Council and the Kosovo Transitional Council today issued the following statement:
"While welcoming the many positive developments of recent times, including the participation of Serb Representatives within the Joint Administration of Kosovo, we are nevertheless deeply concerned about the acts of violence that have occurred in recent days.
We join together to condemn this violence in the strongest terms.
We reiterate together---Leaders of the Kosovo Communities and Representatives of the United Nations and the European Union---that violence has no place in Kosovo, no place in democratic politics.
We call upon all people and communities of Kosovo to renounce violence once and for all and to work together for a better future for all the communities in Kosovo. We emphasize that the creation of a climate of tolerance in Kosovo society and in the Kosovo media is of the utmost importance for the registration of the population of Kosovo as well as for free and fair elections."
| Mahmut Bakalli | Bajram Kosumi | Bernard Kouchner |
| Naim Maloku | Sonja Nikolic | Christopher Patten |
| Ibrahim Rugova | Father Sava | Blerim Shala |
| Javier Solana | Hashim Thaci | Rada Trajkovic |
| Rexhep Qosja | Kaqusha Jashari | Shukrie Rexha |
| Sevdije Ahmeti | Sezair Shaipi | Ismail Kastrati |
| Basri Musmurati | Xhavit Haliti | Nazmi Halimi |
| Lazer Krasniqi | Feti Grapci | Jonuz Salihaj |
| Joly Dixon | Dennis McNamara | Shukri Klinaku |
| Hajrullah Gorani | Daan Everts | Tom Koenigs |