Following a month-long process of accreditation and nomination of new members, the President of the Republic of Kosovo, Mrs. Atifete Jahjaga, appointed new members of the Consultative Council for Communities (CCC) on 30 July 2014 for a two-year mandate. This will be the third mandate of the CCC and it follows two previous mandates from 2010-2012 and 2012-2014. The CCC originated as an informal group established in 2005 as part of the Kosovo delegation to the Vienna status talks with Serbia. Following Kosovo’s Declaration of Independence, and pursuant to the Kosovo Status Settlement proposed by UN Special Envoy Marti Ahtisaari, the CCC’s existence as a permanent constitutional body was formalized in 2008 with the adoption of the Constitution of the Republic of Kosovo.
October 3, 2014