Standards and Status

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