Bernard Kouchner a crime boss in Kosovo

When Bernard Kouchner lands in Kosovo in the summer of 1999 there is no mobile telecommunication. German Siemens and French Alcatel submit one offer each. A panel of local experts select Siemens. The offer is the cheapest and it is not colonial. At a fixed lump sum the Germans promise to build a network for Kosovo. The French offer says the network would remain French property and the country code of Monaco would be utilized.

What happens? Bernard Kouchner, Kosovos legislator, head of government and head of justice, all in one person, replaces the UNMIK director of post and telecommunications, an Albanian, with a certain Pascal Copin, who in turn awards the contract to Alcatel. It is the only feasible solution, claims Copin, because only Alcatel (in a collaboration with Monaco Telecom) can provide Kosovo, not a formal state, with a country code.

Result: Seven years later Kosovo boasts the worst and most expensive telephone system in the region, concludes the European Council. Yet every time a Kosovan lifts the receiver, money rattles into French and Monegasque bank accounts, and we are not talking about small money. Close to a hundred million euros over the years, more than Swedens annual aid to Kosovo.

Well paid, you must admit, for lending a country code (0377) and for some ancillary services. But why, a naïve Swede might ask, he who thought he was helping Kosovo and not France, why couldn’t UN arrange a country code for Kosovo? When the ITU, which issues country codes, is a UN organ? Kosovans were the first to ask this question. In 2002 they got the answer. They found a letter from UN man Copin to the ITU board. In the letter he asks ITU not to issue a country code for Kosovo.

Bedri Rama, at the time head of PTK, wrote an open letter to the UN. How am I going to explain to aid organizations that donate money for the basic needs of Kosovo that Kosovo assets at the same time disappear to Monaco? he asked.

“How can we explain this to different donors from whom we are seeking help for the elementary things in Kosovo’s everyday life? How can we explain this to pensioners, to the many unemployed, to teachers, to professors and to our doctors who live on the edge of existence?”

An impossible question. If someone thinks that the corruption in Kosovo has grown to bizarre proportions, he should bear in mind that the human being is an animal that adapts to its environment. These Trutschlers and Johansens would not have been able to carry on the way they did unless the UN had created an adequate biotope. Because in Kosovo they were privileged in a way that not even monarchs of the Middle Ages could have dreamt about. This is the theme of the next article.

Maciej Zaremba, Translated by Oliver Grassman

Mrs Hisari and Mr Bo Olsson in reality are called something else.
OIOS reports can be read on www.un.org/Depts/oios/otheroiosreports.htm
The analysis of the Trutschler case is number A58/592, the report on employment procedures is called AP2005-600-18.

The Ombudsperson reports can be found on www.ombudspersonkosovo.org

Information about French MIESE can be found in the French magazine L’expansion
http://www.lexpansion.com/art/134.0.125047.1.html
and in the government report “Les acteurs francais dans le ‘post conflict’”
http://www.hcci.gouv.fr/travail/avis/post-conflit-crise.html
Information about Kosovo on UNMIK’s website: www.unmikonline.org

The currency in the UN-protectorate is euro.

DN - Schweden

Kouchner’s crime business mit Alcatel must work also in the future!

France’s Sarkozy voices support for Kosovo’s supervised independence

28/08/2007

PARIS, France — In a speech to his diplomatic corps on Monday (August 27th), President Nicholas Sarkozy said France supports the supervised independence of Kosovo. Presenting his platform for foreign policy to the country’s ambassadors, Sarkozy stressed that this model, implemented with the help of the EU, will guarantee that the rights of minorities in Kosovo are protected. (RFE, Telegrafi, Kosovapress, Top-Channel, Tanjug - 27/08/07)

Setimes

Bernard Kouchner and his Terrorist - Gangster friends Kosovo 1999!

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