Press Releases

UNMIK/PR/281 PRISTINA---The Administrative Department of Local Administration is launching a project, to be executed by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), worth over $500,000 for ‘Building the Capacities of Municipalities in Development Management’ from next month. The Norwegian…

UNMIK/PR/280 PRISTINA--- Welcoming back members of the Serb National Council to the Kosovo Transitional Council as observers, SRSG Bernard Kouchner said their return was based on a new understanding, the main priorities of which were the protection of the Serb community and their freedom of movement…

UNMIK/PR/279 PRISTINA---The Interim Administrative Council today opened discussions on the important draft regulation on Self-Government of Municipalities in Kosovo. DSRSG Mr. Tom Koenigs briefed the IAC members about the regulation, which was given to the members last week. Mr. Koenigs said that…

UNMIK/PR/278 PRISTINA--- SRSG Bernard Kouchner strongly condemns the violence which occurred on Friday night when a large crowd of Kosovo Serbs entered the Strpce municipality building, which houses the UNMIK offices and smashed and destroyed everything in sight. The KFOR Information Centre and the…

UNMIK/PR/277 PRISTINA---SRSG Bernard Kouchner welcomed the decision taken this morning by the Serb National Council to rejoin the IAC and the KTC as observers after a temporary suspension of a couple of weeks. This courageous action will allow the Kosovo Serb representatives to once again play their…

UNMIK/PR/276 PRISTINA---PDSRSG Jock Covey today said that there was no textbook solution to building up judiciary in Kosovo in the present extraordinary circumstances. Speaking at the Interim Administrative Council meeting today, which received a detailed briefing on judiciary, Mr. Covey stated that…

UNMIK/PR/275 PRISTINA---The Administrative Departments of Agriculture, Forestry and Rural Development and Environmental Protection, today strongly denied reports that the wheat crop to be harvested in the coming days is contaminated or poisoned. These reports have mainly come out of Klina, Malishevo…

UNMIK/PR/274 PRISTINA---SRSG Bernard Kouchner, COMKFOR Lieutenant General Juan Ortuno, along with all the members of the Kosovo Transitional Council and the Chief Prosecutor of the ICTY, Ms. Carla del Ponte , today laid a wreath at the spot on Mother Teresa Street, where two Kosovo Serbs were shot…

UNMIK/PR/273 The Interim Administrative Council, meeting without its Kosovo Serb member, continued to discuss the merits of a proportional versus majority electoral system for the upcoming municipal elections without coming to a final agreement. SRSG Bernard Kouchner told the IAC that if the issue…