ИПИ Библиотека

The Independent International Commission on Kosovo launched its much debated report in October 2000.

Since then
• Miloshevich has gone
• Violence has erupted in Macedonia
• Constitutional developments have taken place in Kosovo

The Commission resolved to update its report and to review its recommendations.

The future status of Kosovo calls for urgent resolution.

“All those who took part in the invention have a responsibility to ensure that the legitimacy of NATO’s intervention is preserved through constructive follow-up.”

"The Commission believes that it would be desirable to negotiate Kosovo's conditional independence with Serbian authorities, since peaceful recognition of each other's borders and integrity would constitute the critical guarantee of peace in the region. But neither the existing Serbian regime, nor any other regime that can be imagined is likely to negotiate the cession of Yugoslav sovereignty over Kosovo."

Independent International Commission on Kosovo, The

The Independent International Commission on Kosovo (IICK) was a commission established in August 1999, in the aftermath of the Kosovo War, by the government of Sweden on the basis of the initiative of its Prime Minister Göran Persson. The Commission assessed that NATO bombing of Yugoslavia was illegal but justified, in order to prevent further atrocities by Serb forces, which intensified even further during the NATO bombing.

The crisis had been caused by ongoing human-rights violations by Serb forces in Kosovo during the 1990s, although when some Kosovars shifted from unarmed to armed resistance, this exacerbated the Serbian response. Serb oppression included many crimes against humanity.

Seven out of eleven members of the commission were from countries which are members of NATO. Richard Goldstone and Carl Tham were appointed as first co-chairmen and other members were chosen for one-year terms. The first eleven members included Anan Ashrawi, Richard A. Falk, Martha Minow, Mary Kaldor, Michael Ignatieff, Grace d'Almeida, Theo Sommer, Jacques Rupnik, Jan Urban, Akiko Domoto, and Oleg Grinevsky.^[5] One of the members, Richard A. Falk, later coauthored a work on distinction between legality and legitimacy published in 2012.

One of its purposes of the commission was to assess "the adequacy of present norms and institutions in preventing and responding" to ethnic conflict as seen in Kosovo.