Press Releases

UNMIK/PR/1144 PRISTINA – SRSG Harri Holkeri today visited homes and religious buildings attacked during the recent rioting in Kosovo. Mr. Holkeri travelled to Lipljan, where he met with Deputy Mayor Borivoje Vignjevic and saw several houses burnt in the rioting. He also met with some of the victims…

UNMIK/PR/1145 PRISTINA – SRSG Harri Holkeri made the following remarks at the joint press conference held in UNMIK today: “We had a long meeting together with the Secretary-General of NATO Jaap de Hoop Scheffer, the OSCE Chairman-in-Office and Bulgarian foreign minister Solomon Passy and the…

UNMIK/PR/1143 PRISTINA – SRSG Harri Holkeri, CINCSOUTH Admiral Gregory Johnson, the Quint representatives, President Ibrahim Rugova, Prime Minister Bajram Rexhepi, Assembly President Nexhat Daci, AAK leader Ramush Haradinaj and COMKFOR Lt. General Holger Kammerhoff issued the following statement…

UNMIK/PR/1143 PRISTINA – SRSG Harri Holkeri, CINCSOUTH Admiral Gregory Johnson, the Quint representatives, President Ibrahim Rugova, Prime Minister Bajram Rexhepi, Assembly President Nexhat Daci, AAK leader Ramush Haradinaj and COMKFOR Lt. General Holger Kammerhoff issued the following statement…

UNMIK/PR/1140 PRISTINA – SRSG Harri Holkeri issued the following the statement today: “This is a dark day for Kosovo. “Incidents of recent days, the drownings last night and the violent deaths today are profoundly shocking and disturbing. “They must all be investigated fully and rapidly. “But there…

UNMIK/PR/1141 PRISTINA - The last 48 hours have been terrible and shocking for the people of Kosovo. We have the fullest sympathy with the families of those who have died or the injured. But the violence must stop and it must stop immediately. There is no excuse for any attacks on others or acts of…

UNMIK/PR/1139 PRISTINA – SRSG Harri Holkeri today condemned the drive by shooting incident in Caglavica last evening that resulted in serious injuries to a Kosovo Serb teenager, Jovica Ivic. Cautioning against presumptions of ethnic or other motives for the attempted murder, the SRSG said that “such…

UNMIK/PR/1137 PRISTINA – The Office on Missing Persons and Forensics (OMPF), in cooperation with the UNMIK CIVPOL Missing Persons Unit (MPU) and the Serbian authorities, has arranged for 45 bodies identified by DNA to be transferred from Serbia proper to Kosovo today. The transfer of mortal remains…

UNMIK/PR/1136 PRISTINA – PDSRSG Charles Brayshaw called on President Ibrahim Rugova this afternoon, and on behalf of SRSG Harri Holkeri, he strongly condemned the grenade attack on the President’s house early this morning, terming it “outrageous and cowardly”. The SRSG telephoned President Rugova…

UNMIK/PR/1134 PRISTINA – SRSG Harri Holkeri issued the following statement today: “I am very happy to see that the Working Group on the Missing met here today under the chairmanship of Francois Stamm from the International Committee of the Red Cross. “The issue of the missing persons is a very…