Thank you, Mr. President, for having conducted this very important and very interesting meeting. I shall try very briefly to reply to some of the members of the Security Council.
I should like to thank Richard Holbrooke for his very positive comments regarding the conduct of this United Nations Mis…
Seventeen months ago the Council gave us the mandate of setting Kosovo on its way, administering it and establishing democratic institutions until it could assume the substantial autonomy called for in resolution 1244 (1999). We have made a great deal of progress, important progress, in that directi…
I would like to thank you for both your words of appreciation and your criticism. Positive appreciation seems to have won the day, I think, but of course I am not in the right position to judge that. I am grateful to the Ambassadors of the Russian Federation and China for having provided us by their…
I will not be able to answer all the very relevant and important questions due to the hour, but I do intend to come back again with more progress accomplished and with even greater determination to fight against what all members have referred to: violence and impunity, and for the protection of mino…
Can a full assessment be made after one year? I think not. At best this can be only an interim report. Has it been one year already? Or has it been merely one year? Is one year too much, or is it not enough? One year ago, the United Nations family was approaching what André Malraux called the compli…
