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	Kosovo Since 1999 By Am Johal
		Demilitarization of the KLA (Kosovo Liberation Army) and its transformation into a civilian organization and it also its involvement of its political wing in Kosovo politics is another segment that arose from the outcome of post-99 constellation.
		Though, the political scene is constructed mainly out of the peaceful resistance movement of the 90-ies and the former KLA mainstream, the background policy orientation doesn't differ as much, also taking the specific political climate in Kosovo, where we have a twofold chain of responsibility conductance, with UNMIK and the local governmental institutions.
		Kosovo politicians view Macedonia and Albania as two good neighbors with whom they want to generate friendly and serious cooperation, and I think the prospects of regional cooperation and EU integrative processes will promote the kind of relationship that would prevent any sort of tensions between Kosovo and the other countries of the region.
	www.countercurrents.org /johal020306.htm (1376 words)

	Strategic Insights -- Kosovo: From Interim Status to Enhanced Sovereignty
		Kosovo needs to move to some form of enhanced sovereignty but its new governance structure should, at least for the immediate future, be something less than “final” status, or full statehood.
		Consequently Kosovo, has been unable to develop an adequate level of institutional capacity and legitimacy, and also sufficient minority and human rights protections, which are necessary for the development of a self-sustaining democratic polity with a viable political and socio-economic infrastructure.
		Kosovo Serb leaders have tried to emphasize the need for full realization of democratic standards in Kosovo prior to any kind of enhanced sovereignty or independence for the region, as well as the need for “realistic decentralization,” and the full participation of their minority community in Kosovo’s governing institutions.
	www.ccc.nps.navy.mil /si/2006/Jan/cohenJan06.asp (6393 words)

	Politics of Kosovo - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Kosovo Assembly is responsible for electing a President and Prime Minister of Kosovo.
		Kosovo publisher Veton Surroi formed his own political party in 2004 named "Ora." Kosovo Serbs formed the Serb List for Kosovo and Metohija (SLKM) in 2004, but have boycotted Kosovo's institutions and never taken their seats in the Kosovo Assembly.
		After that election, Kosovo's political parties formed an all-party unity coalition and elected Ibrahim Rugova as President and Bajram Rexhepi (PDK) as Prime Minister.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Politics_of_Kosovo (581 words)

	Bosnian Institute News: Veton Surroi enters politics
		What is becoming clearer by the day in Kosovo politics is the urgent need for an alternative to the two big party blocs, to broaden voters' choices in the autumn polls.
		The two blocs are the Democratic League of Kosovo, LDK, the firmest established party since 1989, and the parties of the "war" bloc, which emerged after the 1999 conflict from the Kosovo Liberation Army movement.
		Kosovo now desperately needs a new option, offering not only a different concept of governing but also opposition, as well as fresh initiatives that differ from the old fashioned romantic, folkloric or quasi-patriotic ideas we have experienced in Kosovo so far.
	www.bosnia.org.uk /news/news_body.cfm?newsid=1915 (1545 words)

	UNHCR - Albanians in Kosovo: Prospects for the Future
		The politics of Kosovo are dominated by themes that could be regarded as classically Balkan.
		The Battle of Kosovo Polje (or Kosovo Field) was fought chiefly between the Serbs and the Turks.
		The Kosovo Albanians, spurred on by their success in running unofficial elections as well as hospitals and schools, are now quite open in stating their desire for independence or union with Albania.
	www.unhcr.org /publ/RSDCOI/3ae6a6b9c.html (7343 words)

	FRY (Kosovo): Playing politics with refugees in Macedonia - Amnesty International (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Frequent closures of the border by the Macedonian authorities seem to be used to prompt quicker action in evacuating refugees.
		This is an unacceptable intrusion of politics in the humanitarian response to refugees in crisis,Amnesty International said.
		Providing protection for refugees, and searching for a durable solution for their plight, is not the responsibility of one country alone; but the responsibility of the entire international community, Amnesty International said.
	www.web.amnesty.org /ai.nsf/index/EUR700711999 (787 words)

	Government of Kosovo - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Government of Kosovo is the body that governs Kosovo under UNMIK's overview and it is elected by the Assembly of Kosovo.
		The current Government of Kosovo is formed by a coalition between the Ibrahim Rugova-led Democratic League of Kosovo and the Ramush Haradinaj-led Alliance for the Future of Kosovo.
		The seat of the Government of Kosovo is Pristina, the capital of Kosovo.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Government_of_Kosovo (139 words)

	Making Kosovo sustainable (SETimes.com)
		In a land of politics and nothing but politics, Kosovo's politicians lack strong connections to their constituents who are looking for a roadmap to prosperity when the status talks are over.
		This is not to say that Kosovo's people do not think the status question is critical, only that by now they are convinced that some kind of independence is inevitable and that they want their leaders to move on to the next problem.
		Kosovo’s growth rates have been poor essentially due to declining donor assistance in the post-conflict and post-reconstruction phase.
	www.setimes.com /cocoon/setimes/xhtml/en_GB/features/setimes/articles/2006/08/07/reportage-01 (1183 words)

	Worldandnation: In Kosovo, ballot will offer voters new choice: women
		The elections will be the first since NATO-led forces occupied Kosovo more than a year ago and the first free elections ever in the province, an ethnic Albanian part of Serbia emerging from 41/2 decades of communism and another of Serb repression.
		Kosovo is a mainly rural and deeply traditional society that has allowed women few chances to participate in public life.
		In Kosovo, it is part of a wider effort to raise the status of women through education, job training and support for women's non-governmental organizations.
	www.sptimes.com /News/100500/Worldandnation/In_Kosovo__ballot_wil.shtml (855 words)

	Kosovo: Ownership, Politics, Economy - AIM Pristina, 30 September, 1999
		Kosovo is not burdened only by tangled historical heritage, but also by numerous very intricate relations from the most recent past.
		For a sound approach to numerous problems in Kosovo, it is necessary to legally or otherwise clearly resolve the dilemma whether this sovereignty persists in the existing conditions or whether it is temporarily interrupted, which should be logical in view of the fact that every Yugoslav form of executing power in Kosovo has been annulled.
		Information are spreading around Kosovo, media inclusive, which lead to the conclusion that certain French circles and media are not with very good intentions biased in favour of one of the sharply opposed political extremes in the Albanian movement.
	www.bndlg.de /~wplarre/back436.htm (1224 words)

	World Politics Watch \| Kosovo's Status Potential Flashpoint in Balkans (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		The most important and most controversial part of the new constitution is its preamble, which enshrines Kosovo as an "inalienable part of Serbia." This comes at a time when the U.N.-sponsored talks on the future of the Albanian-majority province are nearing their end.
		Kosovo's leaders and head of the U.N. mission in the province claimed that the referendum would have no legal impact on the U.N.-led negotiations over establishing Kosovo's final status.
		Kosovo Albanian leaders will not welcome such intimations of delay, as they worry that impatience for independence and high unemployment might spark violence in Kosovo.
	worldpoliticswatch.com /article.aspx?id=320 (1169 words)

	SPECIAL REPRESENTATIVE FOR KOSOVO BRIEFS SECURITY COUNCIL, WITH FUTURE STATUS TALKS SET TO OPEN IN VIENNA 20 FEBRUARY
		Austria’s representative, speaking on behalf of the European Union, urged Kosovo’s institutions to renew their efforts to ensure substantive, accelerated and sustainable progress in the implementation of the standards, especially in such key areas as returns, equal access to justice and the preservation of cultural heritage.
		Kosovo’s political response to the loss of President Rugova had been responsible and dignified, as was the management of his funeral, he added.
		She joined the Secretary-General in urging Kosovo’s political leaders to renew their efforts to ensure substantive, accelerated and sustainable progress in the implementation of standards, including in key areas, such as the return of refugees and internally displaced people, access to justice, the preservation of cultural heritage, and improved conditions for minorities.
	www.un.org /News/Press/docs/2006/sc8640.doc.htm (3409 words)

	globalinfo.org - Mar 8, SERBIA (#35609)
		Since then, Kosovo is practically semi-autonomous, ruled with the help of the UN administration and under the protection of some 20,000 peacekeeping troops led by NATO.
		Kosovo U.N. governor Soren Jessen-Petersen said in a statement Tuesday that Haradinaj was a öclose partner and friendö whose leadership and commitment had brought Kosovo "closer than ever before to achieving its aspirations." He warned that "people of Kosovo should respond with the same dignity and maturity as that shown by Mr Haradinaj."
		Haradinaj promised to lead Kosovo to full independence, but the UN Security Council assessed recently that the province had not met international standards on human rights and the rule of law.
	www.globalinfo.org /eng/reader.asp?ArticleId=35609 (805 words)

	Kosovo's Partisan Politics Undermines UN Authority - Global Policy Forum - UN Security Council
		The UN's assistant secretary-general for peacekeeping, Hedi Annabi, said yesterday that Kosovo Albanians, Kosovo Serbs, and Serbian officials in Belgrade are obstructing reconciliation by trying to press their own solutions to Kosovo's problems.
		The UN mission in Kosovo has established a special police squad to investigate the killings and has adopted extra security measures along with NATO-led forces in the province.
		The UN ambassador for Serbia and Montenegro, Dejan Sahovic, urged the council to ensure that the assailants in this case are brought to justice.
	www.globalpolicy.org /security/issues/kosovo1/2003/0616authority.htm (626 words)

	Kosovo travel guide - Wikitravel (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Kosovo, (Albanian: Kosova), is a province of Serbia under UN administration, in the South Eastern Europe.
		Lots of people in Kosovo can speak English (even before the UN arrived) and they are more then willing to help you and tell you their stories.
		Accommodation in Kosovo can be expensive, meaning it is probably the same as hotels in sourrounding countries (starts at 25 EUR and goes over 100 EUR) and primarily is designed for people working for the development agencies.
	wikitravel.org /en/Kosovo (2447 words)

	FRY (Kosovo): Playing politics with refugees in Macedonia - Amnesty International (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Frequent closures of the border by the Macedonian authorities seem to be used to prompt quicker action in evacuating refugees.
		This is an unacceptable intrusion of politics in the humanitarian response to refugees in crisis,Amnesty International said.
		In the current response to the forced mass displacement from Kosovo a new solution has been created - that is - humanitarian evacuation from Macedonia to other countries.
	web.amnesty.org /library/index/engEUR700711999?open&of=eng-YUG (787 words)

	The Fifth Columnists of Kosovo \| TIME
		The editors were unable to hide their irritation that the U.S. would not be humiliated after all, that NATO would survive, and that America had done good in the world at little cost to itself.
		Critics of the Kosovo project--some of whom said we should stay out, some of whom said we should go in with ground troops, many of whom managed to say both these things, and all of whom predicted that the Serbs would never cave--are bitter.
		Press suspicion and Republican partisanship are reasonable enough, but there ought to be a sense that criticism of a military operation in progress should meet a higher standard of seriousness because such criticism does aid the enemy, whether it is intended to or not.
	www.time.com /time/magazine/article/0,9171,1101990628-27171,00.html (979 words)

	TODAYonline (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		As Kosovo's parliament paid its respects to Rugova at a special session, a top UN official in the province insisted political leaders show "vital" unity ahead of status talks.
		Rugova, whose strong leadership was seen as crucial in upcoming direct talks on Kosovo's future status, died of lung cancer on Saturday at the age of 61, leaving many in the province worried about a battle among possible successors.
		Other family members did not want to leave the presidential residence, sources close to the Rugovas said, until his body is moved to the hall of Kosovo's parliament building, where it is to lie in state for citizens to be able to pay their respects for three days starting on Monday.
	www.todayonline.com /articles/96703.asp (361 words)

	B92 - News - Politics - Differing Kosovo stances at UN meeting
		He stated that with recognition of Kosovo’s independence by the UN Security Council, it will free the entire region of confusion and instability and allow everyone to live in long-term stability and prosperity.
		Kosovo Serbian List leader Oliver Ivanović told B92 that, as he had expected, the UN Security Council meeting brought nothing new to the table.
		Ivanović said that the story that the situation in Kosovo is improving is being repeated by UNMIK and the Kosovo institutions, and the Serbian side tried to disapprove that again.
	www.b92.net /eng/news/politics-article.php?yyyy=2006&mm=12&dd=14&nav_category=92&nav_id=38609 (571 words)

	BBC News \| UK Politics \| The UK politics of Kosovo
		For Mr Blair the war, as he announced himself, has now become a moral one as the Nato forces attempt to stop the killing and the ethnic cleansing in Kosovo and try to provide food and shelter for the apparently never-ending flood of refugees.
		Any sign that the Yugoslavian leader is cracking under the pressure is seized on by the politicians to claim the escalating number of air strikes are working.
		For one thing, wars cost vast amounts of money and Chancellor Gordon Brown - while currently meeting the cost from the contingency reserve - may soon start worrying that he will be left with little room to manoeuvre in the lead up to the 2001 election.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/uk_politics/323933.stm (827 words)

	Analysis: Balkans, Kosovo after Haradinaj
		Kosovo Albanian society showed welcome maturity in recent months as it reacted calmly to the indictment for war crimes of Prime Minister Haradinaj and the anniversary of the March 2004 riots.
		Otherwise, Kosovo is likely to return to instability sooner rather than later and again put at risk all that has been invested in building a European future for the Western Balkans.
		Even though the international community is beginning to move Kosovo toward some form of independence, the escalation of internal political conflict and the April 2005 murder of former Prime Minister Haradinaj's younger brother show that serious risks of instability remain.
	www.reliefweb.int /rw/RWB.NSF/db900SID/SODA-6CS57Z?OpenDocument (1075 words)

	USAID CP FY2000: Serbia, incl Kosovo, & Montenegro (FRY)
		Specific democracy area objectives and activities being planned for Kosovo are interrelated components of comprehensive program which addresses the development of the institutions and processes necessary to make local government more effective and representative and, as may be determined in anticipated political agreements, directly support an enhanced degree of autonomy for the province.
		A key element of USAID support to an eventual political agreement on increased autonomy for Kosovo may involve assistance in developing new structures for elected local and county governments.
		The NGO community in Kosovo has shown itself to be both courageous and effective in delivering services to and representing the interests of many groups in the province.
	www.usaid.gov /pubs/cp2000/eni/y_fryu.html (3093 words)

	Kosovo The Politics of Identity and Space (Routledge Advances in European Politics) by De Kostovicova in Hardcover at ...
		The text is woven around the story of ethnic segregation in Kosovo's education system and its impact on the emergence of exclusive notions of nation and homeland among the Albanian and Serbian youth in segregated schools in the province during the 1990s.
		While focusing on the issue of education in post-autonomy Kosovo, this monograph critically explores the wider contest of the Albanian resistance, including the emergence of the parallel state as an integral component of non-violent resistance.
		Ultimately, this book provides an insight not only into events that led to the bloodshed in Kosovo in the late 1990s, but also show that the legacy of segregation is one of the most major challenges the international community faces in its efforts to establish an integrated multiethnic society in the province.
	www.smarter.com /kosovo_the_politics_of_identity_and_space_---pd--ch-1--pi-947279.html (417 words)

	The Centre for Peace in the Balkans
		Kosovo's municipal elections will be held in October under a system of proportional representation, the OSCE ambassador to the province said Monday, declaring it Kosovo's "first free, fair and informed democratic test."
		The use of proportional representation for polls in Kosovo's 30 municipalities had been fiercely opposed by some political parties but the system was chosen as the only practical way to organise a poll this year, said Daan Everts at the Pristina headquarters of Kosovo's UN administration.
		Kosovo is blazing a trail, many democracies are lagging behind on this," he said.
	www.balkanpeace.org /index.php?index=article&articleid=9784 (617 words)

	spiked-politics \| Article \| Kosovo: No UN solution
		Serbia's political elite, hammered by low voter turnout in recent general elections, has scrambled to exploit the international community's guilty conscience, and to forge a sense of national unity around the role of ethnic victimisation.
		Kosovo Albanians' calls for independence have been supported by leading international pundits, although they have yet to be endorsed by the international power centres responsible for the region (7).
		The international protectorates of Bosnia and Kosovo represent only the most extreme manifestation of a regional phenomenon, whereby national policy and legislation is crafted and implemented without being mediated through the democratic process.
	www.spiked-online.com /Articles/0000000CA4D4.htm (1320 words)

	Salon.com Politics \| Trigger finger
		But the reason those two divisions had their readiness downgraded was not because they were unfit for duty or lacked equipment.
		The fact that even a temporary downgrading of military readiness was caused by the Kosovo and Bosnia operations does point up a very legitimate defense policy issue: While America no longer faces a large-scale threat like the Soviet Union, its downsized military has been called into action repeatedly for various peacekeeping duties.
		The politically untouchable golf industry, where dangerous chemicals are par for the course.
	www.salon.com /politics/feature/2000/08/07/lie_week/index.html (792 words)

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