Press Releases

UNMIK/PR/226 PRISTINA: The SRSG, Dr. Bernard Kouchner, today briefed the Kosovo Transitional Council about the visit of the Security Council mission, which is arriving in Kosovo tomorrow. A special session of the KTC will be held on 28 April, which will be attended by the Security Council members…

UNMIK/PR/225 PRISTINA: The SRSG, Dr. Bernard Kouchner, today briefed the Interim Administrative Council on the preparations for the Security Council visit later this week, part of which will be a special joint IAC and Kosovo Transitional Council session on 28 April, in which the Security Council…

UNMIK/PR/224 MITROVICA: Mitrovica Regional Administrator William Nash held his first official joint meeting today with two of the regions leading political figures, Albanian Dr. Bajram Rexhepi, President of the local branch of the Kosovo Democratic Progress Party (PPDK) and Mr. Oliver Ivanovic…

UNMIK/PR/223 PRISTINA--The administrative Department of Public Services, responsible for the overall management of public services in Kosovo, is seeking five professional officers to work as counterparts to the international staff of the department. Selected candidates may be assigned, according to…

UNMIK/PR/222 The Interim Administrative Council was today briefed by the co-heads of the Department of Health and Social Welfare, Mr. Pleurat Sejdiu and Dr. Hannu Vuori, on the outbreak of tularemia and a general update on the functioning of the department. The co-heads discussed the measures being…

UNMIK/PR/219 PRISTINA --- Leaders of the United Nations, the European Union as well as members of the Interim Administrative Council and the Kosovo Transitional Council today issued the following statement: "While welcoming the many positive developments of recent times, including the participation…

UNMIK/PR/218 Condemning the rocket attack in the vicinity of the house of Ms. Sonja Nikolic, a Serbian representative to the Kosovo Transitional Council, on 17 April in Pristina, Mr. Javier Solana, European Union High Representative for Common Foreign and Security Policy, said today that this kind…

UNMIK/PR/217 Pristina—Bosniak textbooks have arrived in Pristina from Sarajevo, after long negotiations between Sarajevo and UNICEF Pristina, a member of the Textbook Consortium of Donors. The Consortium was formed last fall to provide textbooks to primary and secondary school children in Kosovo…

UNMIK/PR/216 The Interim Administrative Council today finalized membership of the Central Election Commission which will oversee the running of municipal elections later this year.* Eight members were appointed, with a ninth place held open for a Serb who has yet to be named. There will also be nine…