Kosovo/Kosova As Seen, As Told As the NATO air campaign progressed, the need to find a permanent repository for safeguarding the information became a pressing priority. The OSCE-KVM Human Rights Division consulted the Director of the OSCE/ODIHR and requested assistance in securing the material and in the preparation of an 40 analytical report of the Division's findings. The OSCE/ODIHR agreed, and the OSCE-KVM human rights files that had been removed from Kosovo were transferred to the offices of the OSCE/ODIHR in Warsaw, Poland. The information collected from refugees in Albania and the former Yugoslav Republic 41 of Macedonia was subsequently also transported to Warsaw at the end of the air campaign. The Kosovo Data Analysis Team was formed at the OSCE/ODIHR in early June 1999 with two fulltime analysts and the Deputy Director of the OSCE-KVM Human Rights Division. During the following two months the team expanded to 12 members, consisting of former OSCE-KVM human rights officers and independent human rights experts. The Senior Human Rights Adviser at the OSCE/ODIHR headed the team and the Director of the OSCE-KVM Human Rights Division, now with the OSCE-MiK served as a consultant. This report, prepared at Mokotow in Warsaw in the period from June to October 1999, is an analysis of the enormous amount of information gathered by the OSCE-KVM Human Rights Division. Notes 1 Final Act of the Conference on Security and Co-operation in Europe (Helsinki Final Act), 1 August 1975. 2 Charter of Paris for a New Europe - CSCE Summit, 21 November 1990. 3 See also Chapter 10, Violation of the right to a fair trial. 4 The Yugoslav Constitution also guarantees that the government will respect international law. Article 10 states: "The Federal Republic of Yugoslavia shall recognize and guarantee the rights and freedoms of man and the citizen recognized under international law." Article 16 adds: "The Federal Republic of Yugoslavia shall fulfil in good faith the obligations contained in international treaties to which it is a contracting party. International treaties which have been ratified and promulgated in conformity with the present Constitution and generally accepted rules of international law shall be a constituent part of the internal legal order." 5 OSCE, The Secretariat, Press Release, "Permanent Council Establishes OSCE Transitional Task Force for Kosovo, Replacing Kosovo Verification Mission", No. 40/99, Vienna, 9 June 1999. 6 OSCE, Permanent Council, 233rd Plenary Meeting, PC Journal No. 223, Agenda Item 1, Decision No.296/ Corrected Version, PC.DEC/296/Corr., 8 June 1999. http://www.osce.org/kosovo/documents/reports/hr/part1/ch2.htm (13 of 16)12/5/2003 11:48:40 AM