Press Releases

UNMIK/PR/691 PRISTINA—SRSG Michael Steiner today met local leaders for the first time today in individual meetings held in UNMIK headquarters. Mr. Steiner met with Rexhat Daci, President of the Kosovo Assembly; PDK leader Hashim Thaci; LDK leader Ibrahim Rugova; and Coalition Povratak leader Rada…

UNMIK/PR/691 PRISTINA – Newly appointed Special Representative of the Secretary General for Kosovo, Michael Steiner, arrived in Pristina today to officially take up his duties. After touching down at the Pristina Airport Steiner came to UN Headquarters where he met briefly with members of the Kosovo…

UNMIK/PR/688 UNMIK and KFOR approved a proposal, presented by the commander of the KPC, Lt General Agim Ceku, that will allow for the implementation of a formal rank structure within the KPC. This initiative will greatly assist the process of restructuring of the KPC to most effectively use both…

UNMIK/PR/687 PRISTINA – UNMIK and the FRY authorities today signed three protocols that would enable further progress on the issue of identification of missing persons. The protocols were signed following the meeting of the Joint Committee on Police Cooperation of the UNMIK/FRY High Ranking Group in…

UNMIK/PR/686 PRISTINA – US Secretary of State Colin L. Powell has congratulated the SRSG-designate Michael Steiner for his appointment as head of UNMIK. In a letter to Mr. Steiner, Mr. Powell said, “Your broad diplomatic experience and many accomplishments in the Balkans make you highly qualified…

UNMIK/PR/714 PRISTINA – UNMIK will soon start issuing Travel Documents for children under 16 years of age following the signing of the Administrative Direction 2002/6 implementing UNMIK Regulation No 2000/18 on Travel Documents by SRSG Michael Steiner recently. The date for the acceptance of…

UNMIK/PR/685 PRISTINA – The Interim Administrative Council (IAC) was told today that UNMIK hoped that all Kosovo Albanian detainees being held in prisons in Serbia would be transferred to Kosovo, possibly as early as the end of March. DSRSG Jean-Christian Cady, head of Pillar I, informed IAC members…

UNMIK/PR/684 Today, 28 January, 2002, UNMIK POLICE, supported by KFOR, arrested two men suspected of having violated Section 142 of the Criminal Code on War Crimes against the civilian population. The victims in all of the incidents related to these allegations were Kosovo Albanian civilians. The…

UNMIK/PR/683 The top envoy of the European Union, Javier Solana, today told Kosovo’s elected leaders that they must move soon to choose a president and construct the institutions of provisional self-government. Mr. Solana, the EU High Representative for the Common Foreign and Security Policy, met…

UNMIK/PR/682 Acting SRSG Charles Brayshaw chaired a regular session of the Interim Administrative Council today, which will continue to meet to discuss pending regulations and other issues until the transfer of authority to the Provisional Self-Government, once formed. Mr. Brayshaw opened the…