Standards and Status

ISBN-13: 9783866881570 / Niemiecki / Miękka / 2011 / 183 str.

Joachim Ruecker

Opis

The author has been the Special Representative of the Secretary general and head of the United Nations Interim Administration Mission in Kosovo (UNMIK), the largest civilian peacekeeping mission in UN history, through the decisive period from September 2006 to June 2008.

Spis treści

1 TURNING THE TIDE - Creating a market economy - In the dark - Privatization: The Big Leap - 2 GETTING READY - Prudent planning for Status - Standards - The Eide report: Standards and Status - Kosovo's political landscape: one goal, many paths - Preparing for Status negotiations - 3 TIME FOR CLARITY - Status negotiations - Domestic challenges - The Ahtisaari plan becomes public - The Ahtisaari plan reaches the Security Council - The German connection - The Security Council cannot agree on the Ahtisaari plan - Elections in spite of, because of, or regardless of the status process? - The Troika process and why it fails - 4 INTO THE UNKNOWN - A Declaration of Independence - UNMIK's new role: "Status neutrality", firmness, dialogue - Peacekeeping and Peacebuilding;reaching out to all communities; "parallel structures" - Violent challenges - 5 A WAY FORWARD - Green light for UNMIK's phase out - Time to say good bye for the last traditional UNMIK SRSG - Some conclusions - ANNEX 1 - UN Security Council Resolution 1244 - ANNEX 2 - Report of the Special Envoy of the Secretary General on Kosovo's future status - ANNEX 3 - List of UN Security Council sessions during my tenure as SRSG