CIAO DATE: 04/04

Kosovo/a Standing Technical Working Group, Thirteenth Meeting: Integration & Returns

Expert Recommendations: ECMI’s Expert Committee for Integration and Returns

To the International Community (Missions/Donors/NGOs):

• The International Community should concentrate its efforts on the process of returns rather than looking to the numbers of individual returnees.

• The present authorities (Provisional Institutions of Self Government – PISG – and United Nations Mission In Kosovo) should be assisted in promoting the right of all Internally Displaced Persons to return to their homes or remain in their present domicile, through ensuring the necessary social, institutional and legal preconditions for minorities to remain in Kosovo. This will help in promoting confidence building and dialogue that work toward reconciliation and tolerance between communities.

• Financial assistance should be given towards organizing a proper education system for young people – if the process of returns targets only older people the effectiveness of the process is at stake.

• Financial support for returns should continue to be provided.

• Financial and technical assistance should be provided to finish projects begun in the last few years (reconstruction of houses, etc.)

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