Press Releases

UNMIK/PR/1367 PRISTINA - The Office on Missing Persons and Forensics (OMPF), in cooperation with the UNMIK Police Missing Persons Unit (MPU) and the Serbian authorities, transferred 64 mortal remains from Serbia proper to Kosovo today. The mortal remains relate to bodies exhumed from Batajnica and…

UNMIK/PR/1366 PRISTINA -SRSG Søren Jessen-Petersen has just finished addressing the UN Security Council at the start of the UNSC’s session on Kosovo at UN Headquarters in New York. This is the text of his address: “ Mr President, Let me begin by congratulating you as the President of the Council…

UNMIK/PR/1365 PRISTINA – The KTA Board met yesterday and discussed amongst other issues the next steps in the privatisation process. The KTA Board instructed the KTA management to launch the 6th wave of privatisation immediately, after discussing in-depth the enterprises recommended for…

UNMIK/PR/1364 PRISTINA – Operational control of the Pristina/Prishtine and Gjilan/Gnjilane Detention Centres was handed over to Kosovo Prison Directors in a ceremony held at UNMIK Mission Headquarters in Pristina this morning. The DSRSG for the Police and Justice Pillar, Jean Dussourd, presided over…

UNMIK/PR/1363 PRISTINA - SRSG Søren Jessen-Petersen this morning addressed the International Donors Conference for the Protection and Preservation of Cultural Heritage in Kosovo, convened by UNESCO at UNESCO’s headquarters in Paris. The following is the text of his speech: “Mr. Director General…

UNMIK/PR/1415 PRISTINA – SRSG Søren Jessen-Petersen today signed three Executive Decisions (EDs) on Provisional Assemblies for the Pilot Municipal Units in Junik/Junik, Hani i Elezit/Đeneral Jankovič and Mamushë/Mamuša. The EDs determine the number of members of the Provisional Assemblies (15 each)…

UNMIK/PR/1362 PRISTINA - SRSG Søren Jessen-Petersen today met Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Defence Jovan Manasijevski at UNMIK’s headquarters in Pristina. The SRSG briefed Minister Manasijevski, who is paying a one-day visit to Kosovo, on recent developments, including the Technical…

UNMIK/PR/1361 PRISTINA - Yesterday, after 14 months, the KTA Board of Directors has met again in a formal meeting. All Board members were present. The meeting lasted for seven hours (it will be continued for some unfinished agenda points on Wednesday) and was successful: almost all of the proposed…

UNMIK/PR/1360 PRISTINA - SRSG Søren Jessen-Petersen today welcomed the inaugural meeting of the Implementing Committee for the Reconstruction of Religious Monuments which took place at the Council of Europe’s (CoE) office in Pristina this morning. The Implementing Committee’s meeting follows the…

UNMIK/PR/1359 PRISTINA _ SRSG Søren Jessen-Petersen and Prime Minister Bajram Kosumi today paid a visit to Babljak/Bablak village in Ferizaj/Urosevac municipality where they met Kosovo Serb returnees and community representatives at the local school. During the meeting, a Kosovo Serb community…