Standards and Status (Paperback)

1 TURNING THE TIDE - Creating a market economy ? In the dark ? Privatization: The Big Leap - 2 GETTING READY - Prudent planning for Status ? Standards ? The Eide report: Standards and Status ? Kosovo’s political landscape: one goal, many paths ? Preparing for Status negotiations - 3 TIME FOR CLARITY - Status negotiations ? Domestic challenges ? The Ahtisaari plan becomes public ? The Ahtisaari plan reaches the Security Council ? The German connection ? The Security Council cannot agree on the Ahtisaari plan ? Elections in spite of, because of, or regardless of the status process? ? The Troika process and why it fails - 4 INTO THE UNKNOWN - A Declaration of Independence ? UNMIK's new role: “Status neutrality”, firmness, dialogue ? Peacekeeping and Peacebuilding;reaching out to all communities; “parallel structures” ? Violent challenges - 5 A WAY FORWARD - Green light for UNMIK's phase out ? Time to say good bye for the last traditional UNMIK SRSG ? Some conclusions - ANNEX 1 - UN Security Council Resolution 1244 - ANNEX 2 - Report of the Special Envoy of the Secretary General on Kosovo’s future status - ANNEX 3 - List of UN Security Council sessions during my tenure as SRSG