Press Releases

UNMIK/PR/918 PRISTINA - Monday’s edition of Bota Sot contains an article that makes unfounded and scurrilous allegations regarding the case of Sali Veseli and others, better known as the Commander Drini case. The journalist makes three erroneous allegations that groundlessly challenge the…

UNMIK/PR/917 A review of the activities, achievements and goals of the Office on Missing Persons and Forensics, Department of Justice. Exhumations Since 1999, 4019 bodies of victims of the conflict have been recovered and approximately 2212 have been identified. By the end of 2002, OMPF with the…

UNMIK/PR/916 Pristina – SRSG Michael Steiner says that UNMIK and KFOR are responsible for security in Kosovo. The SRSG sees no reason for the international community to change its position in regard to UNSCR 1244, paragraph 9 (a) and Annex 2 point 6.

UNMIK/PR/914 PRISTINA - A three-day orientation course for Municipal Gender Officers (MGOs) from all thirty municipalities of Kosovo was held from 29 to 31 January at the Grand Hotel in Pristina. The establishment of the posts of the MGOs on 1 January 2003 marks a historic milestone in civil service…

UNMIK/PR/915 PRISTINA – SRSG Michael Steiner today visited Mitrovica and met leaders of the Mitrovica Municipal Assembly, including its President Faruk Spahija and deputy president Mursan Ibrahimi, and discussed with them the current situation in the region. Mr. Steiner spontaneously took all the…

UNMIK/PR/913 PRISTINA - DPI Director Mr. Simon Haselock has been completely misquoted by Java magazine on the issue of President Ibrahim Rugova’s photograph being distributed to different ministries in the Provisional government. UNMIK has no position on President Rugova’s picture being put up in…

For Example, Kosovo: Seven Principles for Building Peace Ladies and Gentlemen, We’ve come a long way since the best advice for keeping the peace was Basil Fawlty’s order to Polly and Manuel: ‘Don’t mention the war.’ The years since the end of the Cold War have not seen a general outbreak of peace…

UNMIK/PR/905 PRISTINA – An extraordinary EFC meeting today endorsed the Government’s proposal for the revised Income Tax rate structure for 2003. “This is a good proposal,” SRSG Michael Steiner said at the end of the meeting, ”I am happy to announce that I endorse this proposal and that I will amend…

UNMIK/PR/911 PRISTINA – SRSG Michael Steiner today warmly welcomed the decision of Coalition Povratak members to return to the Kosovo Assembly, which was announced today by Dragisa Krstovic, head of the Coalition in the Kosovo Assembly. “We have always said that the best way for the Serbian…

UNMIK/PR/912 The Office of Missing Persons and Forensics (OMPF), with the assistance of the Missing Persons Unit of UNMIK Police, The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) and the International Commission of Missing Persons (ICMP), will organize on Saturday 1 February and Sunday 2 February…