Serb-Albanian Dialogue 2005: The Future Status of Kosovo

Dejan Georgievski
Helsinski odbor za ljudska prava u Srbiji

02 September 2005

The Helsinki Committee for Human Rights in Serbia organized a two-day conference �The Future Status of Kosovo� on June 13-14, 2005 in Prishtina. This was the third in a series of conferences organized under the auspices of the Serb-Albanian Dialogue project, implemented by the Committee over the past eight years.

Helsinki Committee for Human Rights in Serbia

The conference aimed to provide � on the eve of the announced start of negotiations on Kosovo�s status � a realistic insight into the complexity of this major regional issue.

The conference was organized in five panels: �Kosovo in the Context of Regional Stability,� �Minorities and International Standards in Kosovo,� �Decentralization and its Implications in Kosovo,� �Post-Conflict Rehabilitation� and �Status of Kosovo.�

The conference ended with the adoption of a declaration welcoming the international community�s intention to tackle the future status of Kosovo as a priority issue of its agenda.

For more information on the conference, visit the website of Helsinki Committee for Human Rights in Serbia.