Press Releases

UNMIK/PR/732 Mr. President, Ladies and Gentlemen, The Presidency of the assembly has been composed. The committees have been composed, and I want to congratulate the Assembly for that What we should focus on is that we need to get ready to work. Please remember the joy, the relief and the pride…

UNMIK/PR/731 Pristina – Following his meeting with European Member of Parliament Doris Pack, SRSG Michael Steiner shared a “Europe Day” message with the people of Kosovo. “The European Union was created 52 years ago today, founded on the basic principles of respect for democratic institutions, human…

UNMIK/PR/730 SRSG Michael Steiner delivered the opening address to a donors’ briefing on returns held today in Pristina under the auspices of UNMIK’s Office of Returns and Communities and UNHCR. The full text of his speech follows: Ladies and Gentlemen, For good reason, I want to concentrate today…

UNMIK/PR/728 PRISTINA-UNMIK and UNHCR officials today briefed representatives of donor countries on their assessments and plans for facilitating the returns of non-Albanian displaced persons to Kosovo. “Respect for the right of Serbs and other minorities to return and to remain is a key benchmark…

UNMIK/PR/729 SRSG Michael Steiner announced today that municipal elections will be held across Kosovo on 26 October, 2002. He explained that a delay in passage of the OSCE elections budget, which was approved on 19 April, caused a delay in beginning operational procedures for the elections and…

UNMIK/PR/727 SRSG Michael Steiner announced today a regional conference to discuss ways to combat cigarette smuggling that will be held in Pristina on Friday, 10 May. Ministers of finance and customs directors from Albania, Montenegro, Bosnia-Hercegovina, Croatia, Serbia, Bulgaria, and the former…

UNMIK/PR/726 Pristina – SRSG Michael Steiner celebrated Orthodox Easter Sunday by attending a church service at Kosovo’s Pec Patriarchate. He was joined for the occasion by Kosovo Prime Minister Bajram Rexhepi and COMKFOR Marcel Valentin. After the service, both SRSG Michael Steiner and Prime…

UNMIK/PR/725 UNMIK has deposited euro 500,000 allocated from contingency funds into a new bank account to manage the Earthquake Emergency Fund (EEF), established by SRSG Michael Steiner this week. UNMIK’s emergency program is set to be operational by Monday. The UNMIK Regional Administrator for…

UNMIK/PR/724 SRSG Michael Steiner today visited central Gnjilan/Gnjilane and nearby villages affected by the 24 April earthquake in which one man was killed and dozens injured. “Earthquakes do not respect ethnic divisions. They have affected both communities,” the SRSG said, citing a remark by the…

UNMIK/PR/723 PRISTINA--Deputy Special Representative of the Secretary-General Andy Bearpark, who heads Pillar IV, Reconstruction and Economic Development, gave the following statement at a press briefing at 10:30 a.m. today in UNMIK’s Press Centre: “Corruption at any level in any society must…