Assessing that the special court was the issue “that has preoccupied the Security Council,” Kosovo’s Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs, Hashim Thaci, told the members of the Security Council that Kosovo will establish this institution on Tuesday “in order to cleanse our war and to isolate individual cases and negative actions.”

If the Kosovo Assembly fails to adopt the special court, which is expected to address war crimes allegations, then the United Nations Security Council will do so. Eri Kaneko, the Associate Spokesperson to the United Nations Secretary-General, told Radio Kosova via email that the UN General Assembly or the Security Council have the mandate to establish the special court and that the process would have to be initiated by Security Council member states.

The Secretary-General of the United Nations, Ban Ki-moon on his quarterly report on Kosovo which will be reviews on 26 May, has welcomed the continuation of the Pristina – Belgrade dialogue and the reaching of agreement on judiciary, and stressed that one of the remaining crucial issues is the establishment of the Association/Community of Serb-majority municipalities.

In the twentieth century Serbia was destroyed in three wars, but never fully compensated. The issue of reparations is not fully completed even after the world wars, and even though we were on the side of winners. Serbia did not come out as a winner after the 1999 bombing, but it was not a loser either. Many people see in this fact the argument that the state, 16 years after the war, again initiate the question of payment of damage resulting from the demolition of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia. 

James Ker-Lindsay, director of the Centre for Southeast Europe of a London School of Economics says that Belgrade must take into account its relations with Moscow until a final solution for Kosovo and Metohija 

Pristina analysts have estimated that a failure in the formation of the Special Court would severely affected statehood and the image of Kosovo. 

In the recent quarterly report on Kosovo, the UN Secretary-General, Ban Ki-moon, expressed concern over the migration of people from Kosovo. At the same time, he welcomed the establishment of the Kosovo Assembly and the government and provided a chronology of events that will be discussed at the Security Council meeting this Friday, 6 February. The meeting will be chaired by one of the Security Council’s permanent members, China, while Kosovo will be represented by Foreign Minister Hashim Thaci.

Source: Associated Press, The Date: December 04, 2014

UNITED NATIONS (AP) -- The U.N. envoy for Kosovo is urging the parties to a power-sharing agreement to speedily form a new government, saying six months of political squabbling following elections in June has damaged the country.

The UN Security Council will meet to discuss the quarterly report on Kosovo by UN Scretary General Ban Ki-moon on November 13.

According to the provisional meeting schedule posted on the UN website, the Security Council will hold a debate on the situation in Kosovo on November 13.

Ban said in his most recent report, covering the period from April 16 to July 15, that the Kosovo authorities and the EU should make sure that a special court was established no later than early 2015 to deal with war crimes committed by the Kosovo Liberation Army in Kosovo in 1999.

The President of the Republic of Kosovo, Madam Atifete Jahjaga, received today the Special Representative of the UN Secretary General for Kosovo, Mr. Farid Zarif and his associates, with whom she discussed about the current developments in Kosovo on the verge of holding the next meeting of the quarterly evaluation of the situation in Kosovo in the UN Security Council, appointed on 13 November.