Press Releases

UNMIK/PR/501 The Interim Administrative Council condemns in the strongest terms the terrorist attack on a convoy of buses carrying Kosovo Serbs last Friday, in which ten Kosovo Serbs were killed and dozens more seriously injured. The IAC would like to offer its sincerest condolences to the families…

UNMIK/PR/500 PRISTINA--- The Pristina Regional Administrator Mr. Jean Guinard, has strongly condemned the barbaric attack yesterday near Podujevo killing seven Kosovo Serbs and injuring dozens of others, including women and children. “I wish to offer my deepest condolences to the families of the…

UNMIK/PR/499 The President of the United Nations Security Council, with the agreement of the Council members, issued the following statement yesterday on the attack against the bus convoy near Merdare. New York—“Members of the Security Council expressed their shock at, and strongly condemned, the…

UNMIK/PR/498 PRISTINA---SRSG Hans Haekkerup today visited victims of yesterday’s attack on a bus convoy near Merdare. Mr. Haekkerup expressed his condolences to the patients recovering at the British KFOR “Reynolds” field hospital in Pristina. “I feel outraged about this terrorist attack which…

UNMIK/PR/497 PRISTINA---Secretary General Kofi Annan has appointed Gary Matthews as the new Principal Deputy to the Special Representative to the Secretary General. He will begin working on 20 February. He replaces former PDSRSG Jock Covey. Most recently, Mr. Matthews was the Deputy High…

UNMIK/PR/496 I am outraged by the attack which was carried out this morning against a convoy of buses carrying Kosovo Serbs. At least seven Kosovo Serbs were killed, another ten were seriously wounded and dozens more were injured. A number of the injured are being evacuated by helicopter to…

UNMIK/PR/495 PRISTINA---SRSG Hans Haekkerup announced today that early next UNMIK will set up Tax Collection Offices on the Administrative Boundary Lines with Serbia, in co-operation with KFOR and the UNMIK Police. Tax Collection Offices already exist on the borders with Macedonia and Albania and on…

UNMIK/PR/494 UNMIK today offered people who have spent money on the refurbishment of the Germia building in Pristina partial reimbursement for their investment. The people involved are asked to submit invoices to be scrutinized for proof of work completed. The Germia building was taken over by UNMIK…

UNMIK/PR/492 United Nations, New York – For the elections in Kosovo to take place this year, decisions on the key elements of the institutional framework must be completed by April, the Security Council was told yesterday. Briefing the Council on the next phase of UNMIK, the Under-Secretary-General…

UNMIK/PR/490 At today’s meeting of the Interim Administrative Council, SRSG Hans Haekkerup introduced a draft regulation which would increase penalties for possession of illegal weapons. The SRSG asked the IAC membership to study the draft of the joint KFOR-UNMIK initiative and produce their…