Press Releases

UNMIK/PR/872 PRISTINA - On 15 November 2002 a list of persons said to be candidates for judicial and prosecutorial office was published in the newspaper "Koha Ditore". The Kosovo Judicial and Prosecutorial Council (the ‘Council’) wishes to stress that the list of names published in the newspaper has…

UNMIK/PR/871 On 19 November 2002, an international prosecutor in Pristina indicted Latif Gashi, Naim Kadriu, Nazif Mehmeti and Rrustem Mustafa (alias Commander Remi), all Kosovo Albanians and all former members of the Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA), on charges of war crimes in violation of Article 142…

UNMIK/PR/870 Good afternoon ladies and gentlemen. I have had a brief but a full visit but I must say my visit was very fruitful and it was good I came. I see this mission as a success. It’s a successful operation and everybody is working well together – the military, civilian and the national staff…

UNMIK/PR/869 United Nations Secretary General Kofi Annan arrived today in Pristina, along with his wife, Nane Annan, for a two-day visit in order to demonstrate the support of the international community for UNMIK’s efforts in Kosovo. The Secretary-General was briefed on the situation in Kosovo by…

UNMIK/PR/868 SRSG Michael Steiner, accompanied by Prime Minister Bajram Rexhepi, flew to the sites where two Serbian Orthodox churches were damaged overnight in Istog/Istok municipality. KFOR Commander General Fabio Mini and Istog Municipal Assembly President Fadil Ferati joined the delegation…

UNMIK/PR/867 Bota Sot newspaper has recently added a series of insulting, misleading and inaccurate articles to its long list of violations of journalism standards. In one of these stories, Bota Sot accused an UNMIK spokesman of being ignorant of the Constitutional Framework then quoted a single…

UNMIK/PR/866 Berlin – SRSG Michael Steiner today met with German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder. The talks were held in a very friendly atmosphere and the Chancellor reaffirmed the SRSG of his full support. Earlier in the day Michael Steiner had met with Foreign Minister Joschka Fischer. The two…

UNMIK/PR/865 Pristina – Upon his return to Kosovo today, SRSG Michael Steiner described the November 5 donors’ meeting in Brussels as “very successful.” “Over thirty countries recognized the progress being make in Kosovo, and what’s most important, they declared their readiness to stay engaged in…

UNMIK/PR/863 Pristina – Pronouncing them “valid and final”, SRSG Michael Steiner officially certified the final results of Kosovo’s 2002 Municipal Assembly elections organized by the OSCE. The official election results were presented to SRSG Michael Steiner by Kosovo OSCE Head of Mission Pascal…

UNMIK/PR/862 Pristina – In a gathering on Friday evening, SRSG Michael Steiner and leaders of Kosovo’s Albanian and Serb political parties agreed on the need to bring Kosovo’s governmental institutions closer to the people and communities they represent. “We had a constructive discussion on how we…