Publisher
Simon Haselock

Editor-in-Chief
Peter Ellwood

Senior editors:
Susan Manuel (law and order)
Sunil Narula (governance)
Eleanor Beardsley (social affairs)
Jim Ocitti (muncipal affairs)
Peter Ellwood (economy)
Stacia Deshishku (general)

Associate editor
Sheida Sheikhi
Copy editor
Sergei Vinogradov
Correspondents
Gorgy Kakuk , Fabio Graziosi,
Christian Lindmeier, Iftikar Ali
Production editor
Candace Holmes
Layout
Luan Tashi
Photographers
Ky Chung, Rudina Qerimi
Translators
Anamarija Sorensen,
Sani Sheholli, Ivana Popovic, Maida Osmankadic, Gezim Kasapolli
Internet editor
Antonio da Silva
Distribution
Jim Ocitti
Accounting
Aberash Zewde
Secretary
Florina Kastrati

Focus Kosovo contact: tel. (381 38) 504 604 Ext. 5471
e-mail ellwood@un.org

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• From the Publisher: Focus Kosovo - the first issue

• Governance, politics, justice, violence, elections, civil administration, education, communications, public finance, economy, minorities

• Dialogue with Belgrade
• Kosovo and FYROM: just close neighbours?
• Will Serbs participate?
• Traditions we should abandon

• Registration and Voter Services
• National communities under self-government
• Shaping lean government
• The nine ministries
  

• Delivering effective law and order
• Rebuilding legal foundations
• Was it genocide?
• Inter-ethnic service struggles for community respect
  

• European ideals, Kosovo realities: reintroducing social welfare
• Bringing healthcare out of isolation
• AIDS: few cases so far, but ...
• From hosptials to family medicine
• Retired Kosovars get new pension programme
• Untangling Kosovo's property market-mission impossible?

• Self-government: it started in the municipalities
• Keeping the Centre at bay
• HPD seeks protection for inter-community sales
• Monitoring inter-community property sales
  

• Underpinning sustainability: CFA-the first finance ministry
• Budget challenges ahead
• SOE commercialization brings jobs and investment
• Economic policies for stable growth
• Trade policies: more liberalization, less distortion
• Bus transport: public-private partnership
  

• Legislation, executive orders, reports and what's coming up

• Civil registration, health, education, employment, refugees and police statistics