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The meeting was co-chaired by Reinhard Priebe, European Commission, and Christiaan Poortman, World Bank

Since the first donors conferences for Kosovo in 1999, much progress has been made in restarting the public administration, mitigating the impact of the conflict, and developing a market economy. The 1999-2003 reconstruction and recovery program for Kosovo is well into its third year of implementation. Generous donor assistance has been instrumental in helping re-start Kosovo's economy.

The meeting provided a stocktaking on the impact of this donor assistance so far and the remaining challenges. It was the first opportunity for donors to meet together with the new government of Kosovo that was formed earlier this year, following the adoption of the Constitutional Framework for provisional self-government in 2001. It also provided a forum for dialogue between donors, UNMIK, and the government on the government's program and the medium term macroeconomic framework and public investment priorities.

The meeting was co-chaired by the European Commission and the World Bank.

See Chairmen's Conclusions

See Agenda (pdf, 9 KB)

Look at or listen to
Opening Remarks:

The delegation from Kosovo (UNMIK/PISG) listens to the welcoming remarks

Opening remarks by Mr. Reinhard Priebe, Director Western Balkans, External Relations Directorate-General, The European Commission (also available in audio recording)

Opening statement by Mr. Christiaan Poortman, Country Director and Regional Coordinator for Southeast Europe, The World Bank (also available in audio recording)

Statement by Mr. Michael Steiner, Special Representative of the Secretary General of the United Nations (audio recording)

Statement by Mr. Bajram Rexhepi, Prime Minister (audio recording)

All audio recordings are in Real Audio format.

Statements

Additional photos from the meeting

Andy Bearpark from UNMIK presents achievements over the past three years and challenges ahead

Background Documents

Kosovo, FR Yugoslavia
Medium-Term Public Expenditure Priorities (108 pages, pdf, 644 KB)
prepared by the World Bank, October 2002

Kosovo: UNMIK - Government Report for the Donor Co-ordination Meeting for Kosovo (48 pages, pdf, 367 KB)
and Annexes (53 pages, pdf, 1 MB), October 2002

Report on Progress Made in Committing, Contracting and Spending Donor Pledges to Kosovo, as of December 31, 2001 (14 pages, pdf, 466 KB)
prepared by the European Commission/World Bank Office for South East Europe, May 2002

Other Documentation and Statements provided for the meeting

IMF note on the medium-term macroeconomic framework and policy priorities (18 pages, pdf, 204 KB)
October 2002

Bajram Rexhepi, Prime Minister of the Provisional Institutions of Self-Government, outlines the government program

2003 Strategy for Sustainable Returns (17 pages, pdf, 406 KB)
prepared by UNMIK
October 2002.

Press

Press Release

Media Advisory (pdf, 16 KB)

Backgrounder (pdf, 29 KB)

This Conference is a meeting of donor governments, countries of the South East Europe region and international organizations. While it is not open to the public, information about the meeting will be made available on this website.