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30. Recognizes the strong efforts of the Mission, the United Nations civilian
police and the Kosovo Police Service in developing and training the core of a multiethnic local police force throughout Kosovo;
31. Calls upon all parties in Kosovo to cooperate with the Mission to ensure
full respect for all human rights and fundamental freedoms and democratic norms in
Kosovo;
32. Urges all parties in Kosovo to support and strengthen a multi-ethnic
society in Kosovo that respects the rights of all persons belonging to minorities and
that includes them in all provisional and new civil administration institutions in
Kosovo, and to support the Mission fully in this regard;
33. Welcomes the recent holding of peaceful municipal elections in Kosovo,
which is a landmark in the democratic development of Kosovo and in the
implementation of Council resolution 1244 (1999), and commends in this regard the
support by all parties of the efforts of the Mission;
34. Commends the Mission for its efforts to create an independent and
impartial judiciary system in Kosovo, and urges all local Serb and Albanian leaders,
and the leaders of other minorities in Kosovo, to take all steps necessary to support
these efforts;
35. Calls upon all local Kosovar officials, ethnic representatives and all
individuals to respect the right to freedom of opinion and expression for all points of
view, the right to a free, independent media and the right to freedom of religion;
36. Calls upon the authorities in the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, and the
representatives of all ethnic groups in Kosovo, to condemn all acts of terrorism and
forced evictions from homes or places of work of any resident of Kosovo, whatever
the ethnic background of the victim and whoever the perpetrators, to refrain from all
acts of violence and to use their influence and leadership to bring all parties to
cooperate fully with the Force and the Mission in stopping these incidents and in
bringing the perpetrators to justice;
37. Stresses the importance of the return of refugees and of all displaced
persons, whatever their ethnic background, and expresses its concern about reports
of continuing harassment or other impediments in this regard;
38. Also stresses the importance for, and the responsibility of, all parties in
Kosovo to suppress all harassment of individuals or groups of any background and
to create a secure environment that will offer to all those who wish to remain in
Kosovo, irrespective of ethnic origin, a genuine possibility of doing so;
39. Further stresses the urgent need for all ethnic groups to cooperate with
the Mission and the Force to rebuild and strengthen common institutions for all and
to desist from creating any sort of parallel institutions;
40. Calls upon the authorities of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia to
release those persons detained and transferred from Kosovo to other parts of the
Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, or to specify the charge under which each
individual is detained and to afford them due process of law, and to guarantee their
families and non-governmental organizations and international observers unimpeded
and regular access to those who remain in detention, and, in this regard, welcomes
as a first important step the release of the prominent human rights activist, Flora
Brovina, and the release of twenty-three additional detainees;
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