HTTP://WWW.STOPNATO.ORG.UK ---------------------------Frenchman named Kosovo OSCE mission head
BELGRADE, Yugoslavia, Jan. 11 (UPI) -- A French
diplomat, Pascal Fieschi, will take up his appointment as head of the Kosovo
mission for the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe Monday, OSCE
sources in Pristina reported overthe weekend.
Fieschi will replace Daan Everts who was OSCE
head of mission in the Serbian province now administered by the United Nations
from June 1999 until December last year.
Fieschi previously served as French ambassador
to Ukraine since 1997. Earlier, he held posts in the French Ministry of Foreign
Affairs.
He will inherit an establishment
which had 21 field offices and regional centers but is now undergoing
restructuring to cover most municipalities. The task of the OSCE mission is to
develop democratic institutions and promote participation by all local
communities in the democratic government of Kosovo.
OSCE sources said Fieschi joined the French
diplomatic corps in 1969. His diplomatic career includes postings in the French
embassies in Athens, Prague, St. Petersburg (then Leningrad), Canberra, and
Moscow. He took part in the negotiations on the Helsinki Final Act in 1975, the
founding document of the Conference on Security and Co-operation in Europe,
which was transformed into the OSCE in 1994.
Everts was the longest serving international
official in Kosovo. He became mission head immediately after the end of NATO's
11-week conflict with Yugoslavia over Kosovo and the assumption of control of
the province by an international peacekeeping force, known as KFOR. He was in
charge of organizing the first democratic elections in Kosovo for a
parliamentary assembly on Sept. 17 last year.
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