Memorandum submitted by the Foreign and
Commonwealth Office
KOSOVO-RELATED COSTS
There are no reliable figures for the total cost
of the Kosovo crisis for NATO countries, but it may be helpful
if we set out the range of HMG's expenditure on Kosovo.
The total additional cost of the crisis itself
to HMG was £90.6 million. The breakdown is as follows:
— net additional expenditure by the
MOD relating to the Kosovo crisis up to the end of May 1999 ie
just before the end of the air campaign amounted to some £43
million. £14 million of this expenditure was incurred in
financial year 1998-99. Munitions used during the campaign were
already in stock and so do not represent an immediate cash cost.
MOD will purchase new munitions in due course, but the detailed
procurement plans have not been finalised;
— expenditure by DIFD on humanitarian
assistance up to the end of the conflict was £31.71 million;
— EU humanitarian assistance to the
region (which is directly linked to the Kosovo crisis) was 378
million euro in 1999. The UK contributes roughly 16 per cent of
EU aid budgets and so it can be estimated that EU humanitarian
assistance cost the UK approximately £14.29 million.
— FCO Kosovo-related expenditure up
to the end of the conflict was:
— public diplomacy (including BBC
World Services, extended new services in the region)—£392,815;
— extra staff costs (Kosovo crisis
unit and regional posts)—£1,064,429;
— extra security at posts in the
region—£154,040.
The cost of the post-conflict peacekeeping operation
and reconstruction up to the end of this financial year is estimated
to be £474.6 million. This figure breaks down as follows:
— net additional expenditure by the
MOD between June and the end of this financial year is expected
to rise to around £370 million. The bulk of this relates
to the cost of the UK contribution to the KFOR operation;
— DFID's commitments for humanitarian
and rehabilitation assistance since the end of the conflict for
the rest of the financial year are £65.11 million;
— EU reconstruction assistance totalled
137 million euro in 1999 of which 108.5 million euro was actually
committed by the end of 1999. The UK share of this is approximately
£13.7 million.
FCO post-conflict expenditure up to the end
of this financial year is:
— peacekeeping costs for the UN Mission
in Kosovo (UNMIK): our assessed contributions to the cost of the
UN Mission, plus the costs of deployment of 60 RUC officers to
the UN International Police Force in Kosovo, and of secondments
to the UNMIK Civil Administration, are estimated to amount to
£17.2 million.
— we are providing 10 per cent of the
international staff of the OSCE contribution to UNMIK at an estimated
cost in this financial year of £1.8 million. We make assessed
contributions of 10.34 per cent to the common costs of the OSCE
mission; estimated at £6.6 million for this financial year;
— provision of a Home Office forensic
team to assist the work of the International Criminal Tribunal
for the Former Yugoslavia—£253,761.
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