Press Releases

UNMIK/PR/646 SRSG Hans Haekkerup gave a comprehensive address to United Nations Security Council today on recent developments in Kosovo and UNMIK, emphasizing progress in fulfilling the needs and interests of minorities and in particular Kosovo Serbs. His emphasis on the importance of Kosovo Serb…

UNMIK/PR/647 New York - Members of the Security Council heard a briefing by Mr. Nebojsa Covic, Deputy Prime Minister of Serbia (Federal Republic of Yugoslavia). The Special Representative of the Secretary-General, Mr. Hans Haekkerup, was present. Members of the Security Council welcomed the recent…

UNMIK/PR/644 PRISTINA -- SRSG Hans Haekkerup and COMKFOR Lt. Gen. Thorstein Skiaker met the President of the Joint Coordinating Committee, Serb Deputy Prime Minister Nebojsa Covic, in Pristina today. This was the fourth in a series of meetings which began on 15 August. SRSG and COMKFOR welcomed the…

UNMIK/PR/643 PDSRSG Gary Matthews, who led today’s Kosovo Transitional Council, expressed his gratitude to the speakers from political parties, civil society and ethnic and religious organizations all of whom offered statements of support, shock and dismay over yesterday’s events in the US. All KTC…

UNMIK/PR/642 PRISTINA -- SRSG Hans Haekkerup today expressed his outrage and condolences over the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center in New York and Pentagon in Washington, D.C. “I wish to express my deepest sympathies to families of the victims who lost their lives yesterday in the…

UNMIK/PR/641 PRISTINA - SRSG Hans Haekkerup today expressed his outrage over the murder of a member of the Kosovo Police Service and the severe injuring of a second KPS officer, attacked as they were attempting to stop a cattle theft in Petrovce village near Gnjilane, early this morning. “Officer…

UNMIK/PR/634 PRISTINA – SRSG Hans Haekkerup met today Serbian Deputy Prime Minister Nebojsa Covic. They held long and constructive talks that covered a number of issues. During the meeting they met with representatives of the families of the missing from Gracanica and discussed ways in establishing…

UNMIK/PR/639 PRISTINA – The Department of Education and Science Co-Head Michael Daxner presented the plans for the future of education in Kosovo to the KTC today. The package of reforms, which are outlined in the draft Regulation on Higher Education and the draft Regulation on Primary and Secondary…

UNMIK/PR/638 SRSG Hans Haekkerup today presented members of the Interim Administrative Council with a draft regulation which defines the structure of the executive branch of the provisional institutions of self-government to be formed after general elections on 17 November, 2001. The structures to…

UNMIK/PR/637 In order to provide independent judicial review in cases of extra-judicial detention by Executive Order, SRSG Hans Haekkerup has signed a regulation which will establish a Detention Review Commission. In exceptional circumstances, the SRSG, as the person vested with authority for the…