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Until the resolution of its final status, the Commission is making all efforts to keep Kosovo firmly anchored in the Stabilisation and Association process under the auspices of the United Nations Security Council Resolution 1244. The Commission believes it is important that Kosovo participate fully in this process on the basis of its own merits. It would indeed be detrimental for the security of Europe if Kosovo becomes a black hole in a region which is otherwise progressing towards European Union pre-accession and later accession.
The Commission supports the provisional institutions of self-government in making progress in the implementation of the priority standards related to the rule of law and multiethnicity before the review date of mid-2005. The Commission has included the standards as the main priorities in the European Partnership for Kosovo. We provide over EUR 125 million in CARDS assistance programmes. We continue to support Kosovo through the SAP Tracking mechanism by giving policy advice and assistance to counterbalance the perception that once the status talks start, standards will no longer be necessary. They will be even more important once the status talks start.
The Commission is committed to promoting the EU perspective of Kosovo, since, regardless of its future status, Kosovo is and will remain in Europe. In this context, we have set up a liaison office in Pristina that works together with the representative of the High Representative, as well as the European Agency for Reconstruction and the EU Member States.
Furthermore, the Commission is preparing a communication to the Council on enhancing the European perspective of Kosovo. This communication will be a contribution to the joint work of the Commission and the High Representative and the presidency, as invited by the General Affairs and External Relations Council in February to focus on the future contribution of the EU to the efforts of the international community in Kosovo.
The Commission will work closely with Mr Javier Solana and the Luxembourg EU presidency on the scope of the EU’s future role in Kosovo after UNMIK. Personally, I do not foresee that the EU will govern Kosovo as the successor to UNMIK, as this would contradict our policy of building capacity and sustainability in partner countries with whom we hope one day to negotiate. The scope of EU involvement in the future needs to be examined very carefully in view of its important political and financial implications."@en1
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