UNMIK and Kosovo's government accept UN Security Council's criticism

Makfax News Agency, Skopje, May 31, 2005

Pristina, 09:34

The representatives of the UN Mission in Kosovo (UNMIK) and Kosovo's provisional institutions have accepted the objections by the UN Security Council concerning the delay in implementation of pilot projects - as initial stage of decentralization of governance in Kosovo.

Minister of Local Government Ljutvi Haziri said the UN Security Council has urged the institutions to speed up the process of local government reform.

"I would not call it criticism but a request in the framework of positive assessment to step up the process of local government reform," Haziri said. He rejected the stands of certain members of Kosovo Assembly, who raise fears that decentralization process has been deadlocked.

UNMIK spokesperson Remi Durlo shared the UN Security Council's position in terms of apparent delay in the outset of local governance reform. /end/