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Kosovo Government Takes Oath
UNMIK/PR/752 PRISTINA – Members of the Kosovo Government today took the oath of office thus marking the completion of the government. In a brief ceremony, conducted in the presence of SRSG Michael Steiner, the Prime Minister, the Ministers of the Government and the Inter-ministerial Coordinator for…
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SRSG Michael Steiner Signs OPIC Agreement
UNMIK/PR/745 PRISTINA – SRSG Michael Steiner today countersigned an agreement with the Overseas Private Investment Corporation (OPIC), a U.S. Government agency. The agreement provides political risk insurance to facilitate private sector investment by U.S. citizens and comes into effect immediately…
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Economic and Fiscal Council Gets Down to Work
UNMIK/PR/744 PRISTINA – SRSG Michael Steiner today chaired the first meeting of Kosovo’s Economic and Fiscal Council (EFC). The EFC was formed under the Constitutional Framework. It is a consultative body of UNMIK and Provisional government representatives, which advises the SRSG on economic…
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Michael Steiner and Dr. Covic Meet to discuss Mitrovica and Returns
UNMIK/PR/742 PRISTINA – SRSG Michael Steiner and head of the FRY Coordination Centre for Kosovo Nebojsa Covic met today and discussed the issues of Mitrovica and returns. Dr. Covic had requested the meeting. SRSG Michael Steiner conveyed to Dr. Covic what he sees as the necessary conditions to…
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Six Serbian Prisoners transferred to FRY Detention Facilities
UNMIK/PR/741 On 26 May 2002, six prisoners of Serbian ethnicity were transferred from Mitrovica Detention Center to detention facilities in the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, outside Kosovo. These transfers are pursuant to the Agreement on the Transfer of Sentenced Persons between UNMIK and the…
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Determination by SRSG
By the powers vested in me by Security Council Resolution 1244 (1999) and the Constitutional Framework I hereby declare null and void the “resolution on the protection of the territorial integrity of Kosovo” adopted by the Assembly of Kosovo today. Michael Steiner Special Representative of the…
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Department of Justice - Twenty-six Detainees from Serbia released from Dubrava
On 26 March 2002, the last known Kosovo Albanians held in Serbia since Yugoslav forces moved approximately 2,000 prisoners from Kosovo to other facilities in Serbia in June 1999, were transferred back to Kosovo. Following the transfer, 80 of those prisoners were released, based on a review of their…
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SRSG Steiner launches Sustainable Returns Concept
UNMIK/PR/738 SRSG Michael Steiner, during a visit today to the homes of recently–returned Kosovo Ashkali families, launched his Concept Paper on the Right to Sustainable Returns. The Concept paper lays out the basic principles that are to guide returns of displaced persons and refugees to Kosovo in…