Press Releases

UNMIK/PR/610 PRISTINA - The Interim Administrative Council learned of UNMIK’s broad principles for eventual pension contributions and payments, set to begin in the year 2002, as well as the plans for Post and Telecommunications Kosovo to increase the number of mobile phone subscribers to 400,000 by…

UNMIK/PR/609 PRISTINA - UNMIK has renewed licenses to sell motor vehicle insurance to the following companies: INSIG, Siguria, Kosova and Dardania—however on a temporary basis. It has also established new conditions for insurance companies. The authorizations to operate in Kosovo for INSIG, Siguria…

UNMIK/PR/607 PRISTINA – PDSRSG Gary Matthews today appealed to international donors to give financial assistance for the running of the minority bus project, which has been officially handed over to UNMIK Department of Transport and Infrastructure (DoTI) by UNHCR. The Swiss government will…

UNMIK/PR/606 The Interim Administrative Council today discussed technical amendments to the political party registration regulation of last year and were briefed on the situation of the 70,000 refugees in Kosovo from FYROM. During the discussions on the registration amendments, one Kosovo…

UNMIK/PR/605 PRISTINA – SRSG Hans Haekkerup today appealed to international donors for resources for the “safe and sustainable return of Kosovo Serbs” to Kosovo. He said “collective efforts” should be made and urged them to take steps to start the process before this year’s elections. He was…

UNMIK/PR/604 PRISTINA – The Special Representative of the Secretary General, Mr. Hans Haekkerup yesterday issued the following statement: "I very warmly welcome this news. For more than a decade, the horrible acts of Mr. Milosevic and his collaborators have spread immense suffering in this region…

UNMIK/PR/603 PRISTINA – SRSG Hans Haekkerup today briefed the Kosovo Transitional Council about the meeting that he and COMKFOR Lt. General Thorstein Skiaker had with the North Atlantic Council in Brussels yesterday on the subject of Mitrovica and former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia. Mr. Haekkerup…

UNMIK/PR/602 On June 13, the Housing and Property Directorate (HPD) executed its first two cases of evictions in Kosovo. HPD staff carried out both evictions in the Obilic/Obiliq Municipality with the assistance of UNMIK Police and KFOR. The operation went smoothly, without any resistance from the…

UNMIK/PR/601 PRISTINA – UNHCR Special Envoy Eric Morris today briefed the Kosovo Transitional Council about the assistance being provided to the refugees from FYROM and said that the agency had made contingency plans should there be a large influx of refugees into Kosovo. Mr. Morris said that the…

UNMIK/PR/599 Pristina – The JIAS Post and Telecommunications Department has announced that all persons holding licenses to use radio-frequencies and whose licenses have now expired need to apply for the renewal of their licenses before the end of June 2001. If they fail to do so, starting from July…