Kosovo
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The Council is expected to discuss a further UN Mission in Kosovo (UNMIK) report in July.
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The Council is expecting a briefing from the Secretary-General on 20 June on his plans to reconfigure the United Nations in Kosovo. His report on the situation and proposed changes was circulated to Council members on 12 June.
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In April the Secretary-General’s Special Representative, Joachim Rücker, will brief the Council on the Secretary-General’s latest report on the UN Mission in Kosovo (UNMIK), expected at the end of March.
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The Council will have a public meeting on Kosovo on 11 March followed by consultations. On 6 March, Serbia had asked for an urgent meeting to consider what it referred to as an “aggravation of the situation” in Kosovo. Serbia’s Foreign Minister, Vuk Jeremic, is expected to address the Council during the public session.
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The Council is expected to meet on Thursday, 14 February, in response to a request from Serbia to discuss the situation in Kosovo. The meeting will be held as a closed session with Vuk Jeremic, Serbia’s Foreign Minister, participating.
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In January, the Secretary-General's Special Representative, Joachim Rucker will brief the Council on the Secretary-General's latest report on the UN Mission in Kosovo. Against the background of a possible announcement by Kosovo of plans to declare independence, the UNMIK report is expected to reopen December’s difficult discussions in the Council.
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On 10 December the Secretary-General will receive the Kosovo Contact Group’s report on the negotiations between Pristina and Belgrade, led by the Troika (the EU represented by Germany, US and Russia). The Secretary-General is expected to transmit the report to the Council. It is unclear if there will be any briefing.
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The Secretary-General's Special Representative, Joachim Rucker, is expected to present the Secretary-General's latest report on the UN Mission in Kosovo (UNMIK) in informal consultations.
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The Council now has before it the formal text of a revised draft resolution on Kosovo. (Formal circulation is commonly referred to as putting the draft in "blue" - which means that the procedural requirements for putting it formally to a vote have commenced). The co-sponsors - Belgium, France, Germany, Italy, UK and the US - now have the formal option to put it to a vote.
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For most of June, action on Kosovo took place outside the Council at the G8 Summit and in bilateral and group discussions. A new draft resolution was circulated towards the end of the month, and consultations among Council members were taking place at ambassadorial level.
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The endgame in the Council over Kosovo's final status is expected in June. At press time there have been two expert-level meetings on the draft resolution circulated by the EU5 (France, the UK, Italy, Belgium and Slovakia) and US. A decision in June seems inevitable, bringing to a conclusion the debate over the report released in March by Martti Ahtisaari, the Secretary-General's Special Envoy for the Future Status Process for Kosovo.
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In early May the Council is expected to consider the report from its April mission to Kosovo and move closer to deciding how to handle the report released in March by Martti Ahtisaari, the Secretary-General's Special Envoy for the Future Status Process for Kosovo. Ahtisaari recommended independence for Kosovo supervised by the international community.
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Martti Ahtisaari, the Secretary-General's Special Envoy for the Future Status Process for Kosovo, completed his final recommendations in late March. On 26 March, the Secretary-General transmitted Ahtisaari's final proposal to the Council along with Ahtisaari's conclusions and recommendations and his own letter supportive of both documents. In early April Ahtisaari is expected to present both documents in closed consultations of the Council.
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The final report by Maarti Ahtisaari, the Secretary-General's Special Envoy for the Future Status Process for Kosovo, is expected to be transmitted to the Council during March. No Council action is expected during the month though there will be active bilateral discussions. The Council may meet on the issue in April and a draft resolution on Kosovo is likely to emerge before long.
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In the third week of September the Secretary-General's Special Envoy for the Future Status Process for Kosovo, Martti Ahtisaari, is expected to brief the Council on the Kosovo status discussions at a closed meeting with some ministerial-level participation.
