Press Releases

UNMIK/PR/603 PRISTINA – SRSG Hans Haekkerup today briefed the Kosovo Transitional Council about the meeting that he and COMKFOR Lt. General Thorstein Skiaker had with the North Atlantic Council in Brussels yesterday on the subject of Mitrovica and former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia. Mr. Haekkerup…

UNMIK/PR/602 On June 13, the Housing and Property Directorate (HPD) executed its first two cases of evictions in Kosovo. HPD staff carried out both evictions in the Obilic/Obiliq Municipality with the assistance of UNMIK Police and KFOR. The operation went smoothly, without any resistance from the…

UNMIK/PR/601 PRISTINA – UNHCR Special Envoy Eric Morris today briefed the Kosovo Transitional Council about the assistance being provided to the refugees from FYROM and said that the agency had made contingency plans should there be a large influx of refugees into Kosovo. Mr. Morris said that the…

UNMIK/PR/599 Pristina – The JIAS Post and Telecommunications Department has announced that all persons holding licenses to use radio-frequencies and whose licenses have now expired need to apply for the renewal of their licenses before the end of June 2001. If they fail to do so, starting from July…

UNMIK/PR/597 Representatives of Kosovo women’s NGOs and civil society met last night with the President of the UN Security Council, Ambassador Anwarul Chowdhury of Bangladesh, along with the ambassadors of Colombia, Jamaica, Singapore, the United Kingdom and the United States. During a wide-ranging…

UNMIK/PR/598 Pristina – The United Nations World Food Programme is tapping contingency stockpiles and mobilising extra staff to assist a fresh wave of ethnic Albanian refugees fleeing into Kosovo from the conflict in the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia (fYRoM). More than 18,000 refugees have…

UNMIK/PR/596 PRISTINA -- The Security Council - on the first-ever mission of all 15 members - completed a two-day visit to Kosovo with an appeal to both Kosovo Albanian and Kosovo Serb leaders to shun extremism and commit all efforts to building a multi-ethnic society. "The communities should look…

UNMIK/PR/596 NEW YORK - All 15 members of the Security Council will travel to Kosovo and Belgrade from June 15-18 to see first-hand the political and security challenges faced by the United Nations in the province, as well as to convey to the people of Kosovo the need to reject violence and take…

UNMIK/PR/593 DSRSG Daan Everts and OSCE Director of Elections Peter Urben made presentations on the upcoming elections in today's session of the Interim Administrative Council. Mr. Everts reiterated the importance of the political cooperation of all the parties and that the "inclusive character" of…

UNMIK/PR/592 PRISTINA - Following a recent review of the activities and functions of judicial support staff throughout Kosovo, the Department of Justice has announced an increase in the salary of some support staff working in the judiciary. The new salaries will come into effect as of 1 July 2001…