Press Releases

UNMIK/PR/519 PRISTINA---UNMIK on 2 March presented preliminary findings of the ITT study on the Trepca mining complex and key elements of an action plan intended to create the conditions for restarting parts of it. UNMIK was represented by the DSRSG for Reconstruction and Development, Andy Bearpark…

UNMIK/PR/518 The names of the municipalities, the registration centres whose cards are ready and the Post Offices from where they will be issued: Reg. Centre No. Municipality Region PTK Office 1 2401a Suharekë/ Suva Reka Prizren Suhareke 2 2101b Skenderaj/ Srbica Mitrovicë/ Mitrovica Skenderaj 3…

UNMIK/PR/517 PRISTINA--- UNMIK’s Department of Transport and Infrastructure has received a donation of 10 inter-urban and urban buses from the City of Barcelona. The buses will help to build up Kosovo’s fleet of buses which was severely depleted during the 1999 conflict. “This donation is of great…

UNMIK/PR/515 PRISTINA---SRSG Hans Haekkerup addressed the North Atlantic Council in Brussels today on progress made in Kosovo. NATO Secretary-General Lord George Roberston welcomed back Mr. Haekkerup, who had been a member of the NAC as a long-serving defence minister of Denmark. Robertson told a…

UNMIK/PR/514 PRISTINA--- The members of the Kosovo Transitional Council today agreed to issue a statement on Albanians held in prisons in the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia: “KTC welcomes the announcement by the FRY authorities of the passing of the Amnesty Bill. However, this is only a partial…

UNMIK/PR/513 UNMIK is in the process of issuing legislative proposals in order to overcome the lack of a relevant or applicable labour law in Kosovo. UNMIK will soon issue a Regulation on the Fundamental Principles and Rights at Work to deal with the urgent need to establish general rules for the…

UNMIK/PR/512 PRISTINA---PDSRSG Gary Matthews, leading the Interim Administrative Council today in the absence of SRSG Hans Haekkerup, welcomed the arrival of Mr. Ramush Haradinaj, whom the SRSG appointed to fill the fourth Kosovo seat on the IAC. “A complete IAC membership is necessary for the…

UNMIK/PR/511 PDSRSG Gary Matthews today welcomed the Amnesty Law approved by the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia Parliament which would mean the release of more than 100 Kosovo Albanians detained in Serbian prisons. “Finally we can welcome back many of those who were held for too long in prison and…

UNMIK/PR/509 PRISTINA--- A new weapons regulation has been introduced to take out of circulation the huge quantity of weaponry left in Kosovo since the conflict almost two years ago. Violators of the new regulation may be convicted to imprisonment for as long as ten years. With the implementation of…

UNMIK/PR/508 PRISTINA--- The Council of JIAS Co-heads were today briefed on the proposed handing over of power from the regional structures to the municipalities in Kosovo. The DSRSG, Mr. Tom Koenigs, said it was a goal to eventually decentralise as much authority as possible towards the…