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Press Statement on Public Funds
UNMIK/PR/117 Pristina – All funds raised from the public, including from all parallel structures, should be allotted to the Kosovo budget, where the money can be strictly accounted for. Despite various rumours and stories in the local press, no parallel money, including from the Bukoshi fund, has…
Kosovo Political Leaders Agree to Share Administration of Kosovo with UNMIK
UNMIK/PR/115 PRISTINA--Three Kosovo Albanian political leaders today signed a landmark agreement by which they agreed to share the provisional management of Kosovo with the United Nations Mission in Kosovo until elections next year. The Special Representative of the Secretary-General Bernard…
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SRSG Visits Prizren Prison
UNMIK/PR/114 Prizren – Bernard Kouchner, Special Representative of the Secretary-General, visited Prizren today where he toured the newly refurbished prison and met with members of the Prizren Provisional Municipal Council. The prison currently houses 66 inmates and can hold up to 120 people. The…
SRSG visits Partes and Gnjilane
UNMIK/PR/113 PRISTINA – Bernard Kouchner, Special Representative of the Secretary-General, visited Partes and Gnjilane today where he encouraged the local Serbian and Albanian population to condemn violence and focus on the future. Kouchner’s first stop was to the Serbian village of Partes where…
UNMIK Names Supervisory Board to Manage Power Sector
UNMIK/PR/112 PRISTINA--UNMIK today announced the establishment of a Supervisory Board to oversee the management of the power sector and to facilitate coordination among UNMIK, international donors, the managers of the Kosovo power company KEK and Mott MacDonald, the company overseeing utilities…
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Power Bills to Arrive this Week
UNMIK/PR/111 PRISTINA--KEK, the Kosovo power company, has begun to issue bills for electricity supplied during the month of October for domestic customers, and September/October for industrial/commercial customers. Bills will be calculated according to consumption of energy. For those premises…
UNMIK Begins Distribution of 2.1 Million DM of Fuel Donated by Japanese Government
UNMIK/PR/109 PRIZREN – UNMIK’s Regional Administration has begun distributing 15,000 cubic meters of firewood and 10,000 tons of coal free of charge to schools, hospitals and needy residents in the Prizren region. The fuel, valued at 2.1 million Deutsche marks, was donated by the Japanese Government…
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BPK Kosovo holds Bank Licensing Seminar
UNMIK/PR/110 Pristina—Representatives of some 12 banks interested in operating in Kosovo attended a seminar on bank licensing held on 7 December by the Banking and Payments Authority of Kosovo (BPK). At the seminar, the BPK announced an extension of the deadline for filing bank license applications…
SRSG visits Albania
UNMIK/PR/108 PRISTINA - On the last leg of his visit to neighbouring countries, SRSG Bernard Kouchner met yesterday afternoon in Tirana, Albania, with the President of the Republic, Rexhep Meidani, Prime Minister I. Meta and Deputy Foreign Minister B. Blushi, all of whom stressed that stability in…
Kouchner visits Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia (FYROM)
UNMIK/PR/107 SRSG Bernard Kouchner arrived in Skopje this morning for high-level talks with Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonian (FYROM) Government representatives on the first leg of a visit that will also take him to Albania for talks with the Government there. At the meeting with the Prime…