Press Releases

UNMIK/PR/336 PRISTINA—The OSCE-run Kosovo Judicial Institute (KJI), in cooperation with the JIAS Department of Judicial Affairs, is hosting an important two-day seminar focussing on international humanitarian law. Legal…

UNMIK/PR/333 ISTOG/ISTOK-Continuing his outreach campaign around the Kosovo countryside, Bernard Kouchner, the Special Representative of the Secretary-General, told a crowd of some 1,000 residents in Istog/Istok that the…

UNMIK/PR/332 The Interim Administrative Council today agreed to support events around Kosovo which are being planned as part of the "Day Against Violence," proposed by local leaders as a follow up to the Airlie House meeting…

UNMIK/PR/330 PRISTINA— The SRSG Bernard Kouchner and German Foreign Minister, Joschka Fischer, have called for action from Kosovo’s Albanian politicians to end violence against the province’s Serbian communities. “We want…

UNMIK/PR/328 PRISTINA— UNMIK Police are questioning a Kosovo Albanian man whose car hit a group of Serbian children in Skulanovo village near Lipjan, Sunday afternoon. Despite early reports which said that four of the…

UNMIK/PR/327 PRISTINA— UNMIK Police are questioning a Kosovo Albanian man whose car hit five Serbian children in Skulanovo village near Lipjan, Sunday afternoon. Four of the children died; the fifth is seriously injured and…

UNMIK/PR/326 PRISTINA—The Department of Youth is organizing a Youth Week from 1-7 October. The event, which from this year onwards is to be held each year, is aimed to inspire the active engagement of youth in shaping their…

UNMIK/PR/325 PRISTINA—SRSG Bernard Kouchner has signed Regulation No. 2000/49 establishing the Administrative Department of Public Utilities. The department shall be responsible for the management and regulation of all issues…

UNMIK/PR/323 The UNMIK Victim Recovery and Identification Commission, along with the OSCE, has been continuing efforts to identify the remains of 176 bodies exhumed by forensics experts from Dragodan cemetery this summer. The…

UNMIK/PR/324 PRISTINA--SRSG Bernard Kouchner has signed a regulation establishing the administrative Department of Youth. The department will be responsible for the overall management of all matters concerning youth in Kosovo…