radio free europe
February 26, 2011
It has been a week of dramatic political events in Kosovo that saw the election of businessman Behgjet Pacolli as president and the confirmation of a new government headed by Prime Minister Hashim Thaci. RFE/RL Prishtina bureau chief Arbana Vidishiqi sat down with U.S. Ambassador to Kosovo Christopher Dell to get his take on the developments and the way forward for Kosovo.
It has been a week of dramatic political events in Kosovo that saw the election of businessman Behgjet Pacolli as president and the confirmation of a new government headed by Prime Minister Hashim Thaci. RFE/RL Prishtina bureau chief Arbana Vidishiqi sat down with U.S. Ambassador to Kosovo Christopher Dell to get his take on the developments and the way forward for Kosovo.
RFE/RL: Mr. Ambassador, the new state institutions of Kosovo have now been chosen [president, prime minister, cabinet]. You have urged the political elite to establish a government with “clean hands.” Are you satisfied?
Christopher Dell: Yes, very much so. I think that the media here, in their focus on sensationalist stories of the last few days, has by and large overlooked the transformation that's taken place. I think it's really instructive if you go back and look at the photographs of the cabinet that took power at independence in 2008 and compare that to today. What you witness is a generational shift. There's been a really remarkable change in the faces of this government -- in fact, very few carryovers from the last government. The prime minister [Hashim Thaci], Deputy Prime Minister [Hajredin] Kuci, and one of the Serb ministers are really the only individuals, I think, who were in the initial cabinet. There's been, as I say, a remarkable transformation that's taken place, and I think that not only does this represent a government with "clean hands," but also a government that represents the changing realities of Kosovo, a move away from the politics of the war generation to the rising generation of young people that are coming of age and taking their rightful places in this society....more...
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*Christopher Dell
Christopher William Dell is a career United States Foreign Service officer who currently serves as the United States Ambassador to the Republic of Kosovo. On May 27, 2009, President Barack Obama nominated Dell to be Ambassador to the Republic of Kosovo. He was confirmed by the United States Senate to be ambassador to Kosovo on July 10, 2009 and sworn-in on July 31, 2009.[1]...more...
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