Press Releases

UNMIK/PR/1638 - UNMIK Countdown #11 PRISTINA – The EU Pillar (UNMIK Pillar IV) is part of the United Nations Mission in Kosovo and funded by the European Commission. Assisting and enhancing Kosovo’s economic development, the EU Pillar gears towards modernizing Kosovo’s economic framework with a view…

UNMIK/PR/1635 PRISTINA – Special Representative of the UN Secretary-General in Kosovo (SRSG) Joachim Rücker today visited the Council of Europe where he briefed the Committee of Ministers’ Deputies and held separate meetings with CoE Secretary General Terry Davis as well as other senior officials…

UNMIK/PR/1634 PRISTINA – Special Representative of the UN Secretary-General in Kosovo (SRSG) Joachim Rücker met French Foreign Minister Philippe Douste-Blazy today in Paris. Among the issues discussed were the recent meeting of the Contact Group with the UN Special Envoy Mr. Ahtisaari in Vienna, the…

UNMIK/PR/1633 PRISTINA – Special Representative of the UN Secretary-General in Kosovo (SRSG) Joachim Rücker signed with UNESCO in Paris today an agreement for implementation of the first project for the restoration and conservation of cultural heritage sites in Kosovo pursuant to pledges made as a…

UNMIK/PR/1632 - UNMIK Countdown #9 PRISTINA – The UNMIK Customs Service in the past seven years has collected over €2.5 billion towards the Kosovo Consolidated Budget. The average cost for each Euro collected is less than 1.5 cents, making UNMIK Customs one of the most cost-effective organizations…

UNMIK/PR/1630 PRISTINA – Special Representative of the UN Secretary-General in Kosovo (SRSG) Joachim Rücker met Italian Foreign Minister Massimo D’Alema today in Rome. The SRSG acknowledged the key role of Italy in Southeast Europe and in crucial fora including the Contact Group, the European Union…

UNMIK/PR/1629 - UNMIK Countdown #8 PRISTINA – The Kosovo Police Service (KPS) has become a highly respected Kosovo institution that enjoys the trust of its citizens and is one of the most effective police organizations in the region. When KPS was first established in 1999, it initially had 350…

UNMIK/PR/1627 - UNMIK Countdown #7 PRISTINA – UNMIK Civil Administration has successfully tackled an enormous range of challenges since the start of the mission in 1999, ranging from getting basic services up and running in the immediate post-conflict vacuum, to setting up the ministries of Kosovo’s…

UNMIK/PR/1627 PRISTINA – Principal Deputy Special Representative of the UN Secretary-General in Kosovo (PDSRSG) Steven Schook’s greeting on the occasion of Orthodox Christmas: On behalf of SRSG Joachim Rücker and all of us in UNMIK, I wish a joyous holiday to everyone in Kosovo celebrating Orthodox…

UNMIK/PR/1626 PRISTINA – UNMIK would like to correct issues regarding property ownership in Kosovo that were grossly misrepresented in a Belgrade newspaper report today. The article is factually incorrect and misrepresents the activities of UNMIK and Kosovo institutions to ensure property rights of…