Press Releases

UNMIK/PR/512 PRISTINA---PDSRSG Gary Matthews, leading the Interim Administrative Council today in the absence of SRSG Hans Haekkerup, welcomed the arrival of Mr. Ramush Haradinaj, whom the SRSG appointed to fill the fourth Kosovo seat on the IAC. “A complete IAC membership is necessary for the…

UNMIK/PR/511 PDSRSG Gary Matthews today welcomed the Amnesty Law approved by the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia Parliament which would mean the release of more than 100 Kosovo Albanians detained in Serbian prisons. “Finally we can welcome back many of those who were held for too long in prison and…

UNMIK/PR/509 PRISTINA--- A new weapons regulation has been introduced to take out of circulation the huge quantity of weaponry left in Kosovo since the conflict almost two years ago. Violators of the new regulation may be convicted to imprisonment for as long as ten years. With the implementation of…

UNMIK/PR/508 PRISTINA--- The Council of JIAS Co-heads were today briefed on the proposed handing over of power from the regional structures to the municipalities in Kosovo. The DSRSG, Mr. Tom Koenigs, said it was a goal to eventually decentralise as much authority as possible towards the…

UNMIK/PR/507 PRISTINA---UNMIK began distributing ID cards in mid-December. A few weeks earlier it had restarted the on-going registration all over Kosovo. The latest from that is: Total cards for distribution: 35,000 (since December) Number of Cards distributed: 21,000 On going Civil Registration…

UNMIK/PR/506 The names of the municipalities, the registration centres whose cards are ready and the Post Offices from where they will be issued: Reg. Centre No. Municipality Region Reg. Center PTK Office 1 1901e Prishtinë/ Pristina Prishtinë/ Pristina Pristina LC1 (Mostari) Pristina 3 2 2001a…

UNMIK/PR/505 PRISTINA---UNMIK is starting the 2nd phase of the ID card distribution in Kosovo from today. The 2nd phase is much larger than the first phase that began in mid-December last year. In this phase 400,000 ID cards will be produced to be distributed between now and May. All those who get…

UNMIK/PR/504 SRSG Hans Haekkerup today attended a memorial service for eight victims of Friday’s attack on a bus convoy carrying Kosovo Serbs. The SRSG expressed his condolences to families in attendance, as well as to members of the Gracanica monastery and to Patriarch Pavle, leader of the Serbian…

UNMIK/PR/503 PRISTINA--- The Kosovo Transitional Council today issued this statement: “The KTC condemns in the strongest terms the terrorist attack on a convoy of buses carrying Kosovo Serbs last Friday, in which at least nine Kosovo Serbs were killed and dozens more seriously injured. The KTC would…

UNMIK/PR/502 SRSG Hans Haekkerup opened today’s meeting of the Interim Administrative Council by repeating his outrage at the terrorist attack on the bus convoy last Friday, which claimed the lives of at least 10 Kosovo Serbs. Mr. Haekkerup thanked IAC members for their individual public statements…