Press Releases

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…

UNMIK/PR/1148 PRISTINA – PDSRSG Charles Brayshaw today visited religious sites and homes attacked during the recent rioting in Kosovo and visited a temporary shelter for people displaced by the violence. Mr. Brayshaw travelled to Prizren, where he first met with the Regional Representative and the…

UNMIK/PR/1147 PRISTINA – SRSG Harri Holkeri today met Bishop Artemije in Gracanica and discussed the situation emerging from last week’s violence and rioting in Kosovo. Earlier in the day, he visited Obilic and saw the destruction suffered by homes and religious sites in the violence and rioting. In…

UNMIK/PR/1146 PRISTINA – Tomorrow marks five years since NATO intervened to stop the killing in Kosovo. We understand the feelings of many that this event should be marked by public commemorations. We agree that all the people of Kosovo should be able to express themselves freely and openly. In…

UNMIK/PR/1149 We have all been deeply shocked and upset by the events of the last few days. I didn’t expect them. We must take stock together, reflect on what has happened and consider how we can go forward. Today is the fifth anniversary of the NATO air campaign to end oppression in Kosovo in 1999…