All of UNMIK's weapons collection programs have been unsuccessful".
Excerpts from Unmik police blotters from a recent 10-day period follow.
Bernard Kouchner, head of UNMIK, the United Nations mission in Kosovo, declares it premature to talk about while his staff are struggling to reopen schools, repair power stations and protect the lives of the province's few remaining Serbs and other minorities.
"We have to transfer authority from Unmik carefully, step by step, and not falling into certain pitfalls, and transfer the authority to the elected interim government," he said, referring to the United Nations Mission in Kosovo.
The mandate of UNMIK was to administer the province, while establishing and overseeing the development of provisional self-governing institutions.
While ultimate responsibility for this lay with Unmik, the bank again neglected an opportunity to influence the situation for the better.
One they have named NATO and the other Unmik, the acronym for the United Nations Mission in Kosovo, which runs civilian life here.
Shabani claims that for years he unsuccessfully provided UNMIK with specific information on smuggling routes and the people pulling the strings, and even lost his job as a result  wrongfully, according to a recent court decision.
He then spent four and a half years in the UK delegation on the UN Security Council, where he was the UK delegation's Middle East expert, holding the rank of First Secretary, and later served as Strategy Coordinator for the UN in Kosovo (UNMIK), advising the Secretary-General's Special Representative on diplomatic and political tactics.
On the contrary, since assuming my post here in January, I have said continuously that the United Nations Mission in Kosovo (UNMIK) and the Organisation for Security and Co-operation in Europe plan to hold elections as soon as possible.
