Press Releases

UNMIK/PR/792 Mr. President, The last time I addressed the Council, you endorsed the benchmarks as the international community’s yardstick for measuring progress in Kosovo. Since then, Kosovo’s Provisional Institutions have embraced these benchmarks as internal goals and ends in themselves. You have…

UNMIK/PR/791 PRISTINA – Acting on the request of the Government of Kosovo, SRSG Michael Steiner on 16 July signed Administrative Direction 2002/14 to regulate business activities involving lotteries, bingo games and other games of chance in Kosovo. This is a provisional measure pending the…

UNMIK/PR/790 PRISTINA – The UNMIK Office on Missing Persons and Forensics has asked local radio stations around Kosovo to broadcast a public service announcement beginning today with information on the distribution of several hundred Medical Death Certificates. The Death Certificates to be issued…

UNMIK/PR/789 Pristina – Following his visit to the site of yesterday’s tragic bus accident SRSG Michael Steiner today also visited the two control-points between Kosovo and Montenegro at the Kulina Pass and met with officials at both sites. Today’s visit followed his meeting with Montenegrin…

UNMIK/PR/788 Pristina – SRSG Michael Steiner today visited the site of the tragic bus accident in the mountains above Pejë/Pec. He met with the Station Commander and the Deputy Chief Operations of Pejë/Pec Police Station who gave him reports on what had happened and how the incident was being…

UNMIK/PR/786 PRISTINA – SRSG Michael Steiner today visited the southern Serbian village of Tupale to update himself on election issues and to meet local residents and politicians. In Tupale he met with the local community council president and discussed the upcoming municipal elections in Kosovo and…

UNMIK/PR/785 Pristina – It was with great sadness that SRSG Michael Steiner learned early this morning of the tragic bus accident on the Kulina Pass road between Kosovo and Montenegro. “This is a very sad and tragic moment for the families of the victims and for all of Kosovo,” said SRSG Michael…

UNMIK/PR/784 Today the Board of Directors of the Kosovo Trust Agency (KTA) held its first and inaugural meeting. The Board is the supreme body of the KTA. With this meeting the KTA has now become operational. The KTA is in charge of administering all socially-owned and publicly-owned enterprises in…

UNMIK/PR/783 PRISTINA – Immediately following the second meeting of the Energy Committee, SRSG Michael Steiner announced the results from the preliminary police investigation and damage assessment into Friday’s lightning strike on Kosovo’s B power plant. “I told you on Sunday I would come back to…

UNMIK/PR/782 PRISTINA--SRSG Michael Steiner said today that he fully supports the Provisional Government’s draft law on higher education, presented to the Assembly at its request. He said the Government had produced a ‘workable compromise’ and that during his talks with political leaders, they also…