Press Releases

UNMIK/PR/1135 PRISTINA – Acting on the instructions from SRSG Harri Holkeri, the Chairman of the KTA Board Nikolaus Lambsdorff today ratified 12 sales contracts of socially owned enterprises (SOEs) from the second wave of tenders in the privatisation process. This brings the total number of…

UNMIK/PR/1133 PRISTINA – SRSG Harri Holkeri today met Serbian Prime Minister Vojislav Kostunica in Belgrade and briefed him about the developments in Kosovo, including the standards and the Pristina-Belgrade direct dialogue. Later Mr. Holkeri had a meeting with representatives of the Contact Group…

UNMIK/PR/1132 PRISTINA – Kosovo Police Service officers discovered an improvised explosive device (IED) outside the UNMIK headquarters perimeter, adjacent to apartment buildings occupied by Kosovo residents in the early hours of 6 March. With the assistance of KFOR, the IED was disarmed later in the…

UNMIK/PR/1131 PRISTINA – SRSG Harri Holkeri today led a multi-ethnic delegation from Kosovo which attended the funeral of the President of the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, Boris Trajkovski in Skopje today. The delegation included President Ibrahim Rugova, Prime Minister Bajram Rexhepi and…

UNMIK/PR/1130 PRISTINA - Today the 17th Economic and Fiscal Council meeting was held in Pristina. The meeting focused on urgent needs to be funded from the 2003 budget surplus. The meeting was productive and dealt with a number of urgent decisions. The Council agreed to make funds available for the…

UNMIK/PR/1129 PRISTINA – After having consulted the Chairman of the Kosovo Trust Agency (KTA) Board Nikolaus Graf Lambsdorff, SRSG Harri Holkeri has come to the conclusion that the KTA Board is currently not discharging its responsibilities under its governing regulation and that urgent decisions…

UNMIK/PR/1128 PRISTINA – SRSG Harri Holkeri issued the following statement today: “I welcome the first meeting of the Working Group on Energy which was held today as part of the Pristina-Belgrade direct dialogue. “The process, as we all know, began with the plenary meeting held in Vienna last…

UNMIK/PR/1127 PRISTINA – SRSG Harri Holkeri has expressed concern over the brief detention of the Kosovo Protection Corps Commander General Agim Ceku at Budapest airport on 29 February 2004 allegedly on the basis of a Serbian arrest warrant, which UNMIK has qualified as invalid. UNMIK intervened…

UNMIK/PR/1126 PRISTINA – SRSG Harri Holkeri has expressed his deep shock and sorrow at the death of the FYROM President Boris Trajkovski and his associates in a plane crash this morning in Bosnia and Herzegovina. Mr. Holkeri extends his deepest sympathy and condolences to the family of President…

UNMIK/PR/1123 PRISTINA – The Assembly of Kosovo has acted outside its legislative competence by approving legislation on cooperation with the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia as a Law of the Assembly. Legislation on cooperation with the International Criminal Tribunal for…