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Brush: Kosovo without a defined status is not good (RTS,Blic, B92, NMagazin,RTK2,TV Most)

The Deputy Head of UNMIK, Jennifer Brush said today that Kosovo without a specific status is not good for the people who live in it, whether Albanians are in question or non-Albanians.

Brush said in an interview in the program "Slobodni Srpski" (Free Serbian), that she hoped that the dialogue in Brussels would help to come to the normalization of relations between Serbia and Kosovo in order to live normally.

-Maybe I'm wrong, but I often say that Serbia and Kosovo are mutual hostages, because perspectives of Serbia are limited as long as there is no solution for Kosovo. The same goes vice versa, perspectives of Kosovo are limited until it finds a mutual way with Serbia - she said.

Brush stressed that she wants the dialogue to bring good results, but that Brussels is not only the theatre, where, when Serbian and Kosovo leaders reach a solution, they pass only with great applause.

On the field there must be results, Brush said on the show, whose author is Budimir Nicic.

She would not comment on the allegations of the Advisory Committee of the UN for Human Rights which requests UNMIK to, because it did not carry out an effective investigation into the disappearance of Dragan Stevanovic and Ivan Majstorovic, publicly acknowledge its responsibility and to apologize to the families, as well as in the case of journalist of Radio Pristina, Marijan Melonashi who disappeared in 2000, and an investigation, according to the Advisory Committee of the UN, began in 2005 and was immediately closed.

-And I am dissatisfied, because I think that there was chaos here at that time. UNMIK then did what it could, but personally I was not here then. There have been many tragedies and every tragedy is terrible, but for those individual cases, I cannot give an answer because these are complex cases, and I do not have all the details - she said.

Speaking about the exodus of Albanians from Kosovo in recent months, Deputy Head of UNMIK said that poor economic situation was maybe a reason for this, but also disappointment in, as she said, the road that Kosovo was moving.

-Fifteen years after the conflict, still is not known where is going Kosovo. Maybe people are a little disappointed with political perspectives, maybe they do not know whether, let's say, Kosovo will be a member of the United Nations, European Union and so on. I think that also has a role to play - she said.

People are disappointed because they fought to gain some international status, the state to be recognized, and after so many years, it still missing - Jennifer Brush said in the show "Slobodno Srpski".