Press Releases

UNMIK/PR/1160 PRISTINA - SRSG Harri Holkeri met today in Belgrade with Serbian Prime Minister Vojislav Kostunica. Mr. Holkeri presented UNMIK’s assessment of recent events and the current security situation. He stressed that the international community’s current priority is to bring the organizers…

UNMIK/PR/1159 PRISTINA – SRSG Harri Holkeri made the following remarks at the Pristina Airport handover ceremony today: “Excellencies, “Ladies and Gentlemen, “Today we celebrate the handover of authority from KFOR to UNMIK. After five years of military control over Kosovo’s central air hub, the…

UNMIK/PR/1158 PRISTINA - SRSG Harri Holkeri made the following remarks at the launch of the standards implementation plan ceremony with Prime Minister Bajram Rexhepi “Kosovo is still a long way from recovering from the violence of two weeks ago. There is rebuilding to be done and repairs to be made…

UNMIK/PR/1157 PRISTINA – SRSG Harri Holkeri today signed an Executive Decision setting up a Crisis Management Review Body to review UNMIK’s response to the disturbances of 17-18 March. The body, to be chaired by an international judge or jurist, will include qualified international crisis management…

UNMIK/PR/1156 Pristina – Today the Deputy SRSG for Civil Administration, Francesco Bastagli, signed an agreement with Mr. Christoffer Sjöhlm, Director of the Swedish International Cooperation Agency (Sida), to support forestry education and training in Kosovo. This project, prepared in close…

UNMIK/PR/1155 PRISTINA – SRSG Harri Holkeri has signed an Executive Decision today, directing the Provisional Institutions of Self-Government (PISG) to immediately implement an evacuation plan for the residents of Hade village in Obilic. Mr. Holkeri directed UNMIK Police and KFOR with the support of…

UNMIK/PR/1154 PRISTINA – Today at around 5 pm the body of a male child was found washed up on the side of a riverbank in the Lipjan area of Pristina. The police link the body with that of a Kosovo Albanian child reported missing since 27 February 2004. The body has been found about one kilometer…

UNMIK/PR/1153 PRISTINA – Today DSRSG Francesco Bastagli and PM Bajram Rexhepi, accompanied by Minister of Culture Bexhet Brajshori and Minister for Spatial Planning Ethem Çeku, witnessed the start of reconstruction of the YU-building in Ulpiana. The building suffered severe damages in the riots of…

UNMIK/PR/1152 PRISTINA - On behalf of the SRSG, the Deputy SRSG for Pillar I Jean-Christian Cady today attended the funeral of KPS Officer Arsim Rrustolli who was shot while on duty on 23 March 2004. Conveying the condolences from UN Secretary General Kofi Annan and SRSG Harri Holkeri to the family…

UNMIK/PR/1151 PRISTINA - Yesterday, 23 March, at approximately 9:45 pm, a police patrol in a marked UNMIK Police car came under attack with automatic gunfire along the Pristina–Podujevo main road. The attack happened when the police officers were carrying out their duties near the Shakovica village…