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Negotiation skills workshop for Kosovo's political leadership ends in Pristina
PRISTINA 11 September 2003
PRISTINA, 11 September 2003 - A one-week negotiation skills workshop for Kosovo's political leadership ended today in Pristina.
Building the capacities of Kosovo's provisional bodies of self-government is one of the core tasks of the OSCE Mission in Kosovo, which represents the institution-building pillar of the United Nations Mission there. In the past years, the OSCE Mission has made considerable efforts to enhance the overall skills of Kosovo's elected officials and civil servants.
"We will continue to work closely with the government of Kosovo as equal partners," said Ambassador Pascal Fieschi, Head of the OSCE Mission. "Kosovo has an infant democracy but its institutions are making substantial steps forwards."
The negotiation skills training, which was organized by the OSCE Mission and the United States Institute of Peace (USIP), was aimed at improving the negotiation techniques of Kosovo's highest political representatives of the Provisional Institutions of Self-Government (PISG), and their political and technical advisers.
"I have full confidence that the people I got to know during this meeting are serious and competent, and will put their best effort in their task," said Dr. Daniel Serwer, Director of USIP's Balkans Initiative. Dr. Serwer and Ambassador George Ward, Director of USIP's Training Program, led the workshop.
"Politicians should know how to negotiate and find common ground", said Bryan Hopkinson, Head of the OSCE Mission's Department of Political Affairs. "This was a perfect opportunity for the workshop participants to come into contact with techniques that are practiced by governments and experienced negotiators all over the world."
Building the capacities of Kosovo's provisional bodies of self-government is one of the core tasks of the OSCE Mission in Kosovo, which represents the institution-building pillar of the United Nations Mission there. In the past years, the OSCE Mission has made considerable efforts to enhance the overall skills of Kosovo's elected officials and civil servants.
"We will continue to work closely with the government of Kosovo as equal partners," said Ambassador Pascal Fieschi, Head of the OSCE Mission. "Kosovo has an infant democracy but its institutions are making substantial steps forwards."
The negotiation skills training, which was organized by the OSCE Mission and the United States Institute of Peace (USIP), was aimed at improving the negotiation techniques of Kosovo's highest political representatives of the Provisional Institutions of Self-Government (PISG), and their political and technical advisers.
"I have full confidence that the people I got to know during this meeting are serious and competent, and will put their best effort in their task," said Dr. Daniel Serwer, Director of USIP's Balkans Initiative. Dr. Serwer and Ambassador George Ward, Director of USIP's Training Program, led the workshop.
"Politicians should know how to negotiate and find common ground", said Bryan Hopkinson, Head of the OSCE Mission's Department of Political Affairs. "This was a perfect opportunity for the workshop participants to come into contact with techniques that are practiced by governments and experienced negotiators all over the world."