Press Releases

UNMIK/PR/435 PRISTINA – SRSG Dr Bernard Kouchner has signed a regulation aimed at ensuring that public order and security is maintained in Kosovo. Regulation 2000/62 allows law enforcement authorities – whether they are KFOR or UNMIK police – to issue an exclusion order against an individual which…

UNMIK/PR/434 PRISTINA – An important step has been made to ensure that the needs and views of people with disabilities are taken into account by policy makers in the JIAS Departments. A Disability Task Force, set up under the auspices of the Social Welfare section of the Department of Health, met…

UNMIK/PR/433 The Housing and Property Directorate (HPD) has started serving notice on occupants of apartments, and other interested parties, in response to more than 800 claims which have already been lodged with it. Occupants of contested property will receive a notice that a claim has been filed…

UNMIK/PR/432 Pristina-- SRSG Bernard Kouchner yesterday announced the establishment of a Joint Committee on Returns for the Ahkaljia/Roma community. The Committee, which will begin work early next year, will be similar to the one that has been established with the Serb community. It will identify…

UNMIK/PR/431 On 25 November, in several countries, men and boys wear white ribbons as a symbol of their opposition to violence against women and their support for its eradication. In Kosovo, women's groups have organized activities for this day and during the week, which are designed to raise…

UNMIK/PR/430 PRISTINA---The JIAS Department of Civil Security and Emergency Preparedness has invited applications from members of non-Albanian minority communities for appointment to the Kosovo Protection Corps. The eligible candidates should have a secondary school diploma, should be able to speak…

UNMIK/PR/429 PRISTINA – PDSRSG, Jock Covey, has expressed his outrage at the murder of a senior politician in central Pristina Thursday. Xhemajl Mustafa, advisor to the LDK leader Ibrahim Rugova, was shot outside his apartment. His wife, who was with him, collapsed and was taken to hospital. “This…

UNMIK/PR/428 PRISTINA – SRSG today established a Council of Ministers, as a vital player in Kosovo’s interim administration. The Council of Ministers will be comprised of the Kosovo and international co-heads of the 20 departments which make up the Joint Interim Administrative Structure (JIAS). It…

UNMIK/PR/427 UNMIK today opens a Vehicle Registration Center for the population of the Pristina region in Gracanica. This includes a Vehicle Registration Program office behind the Municipal building in Gracanica and a Vehicle Inspection garage in Lapje Selo. All residents of Kosovo in possession of…

UNMIK/PR/426 PRISTINA---SRSG Bernard Kouchner today told members of the Kosovo Transitional Council that he was absolutely outraged by the attack on the house of an official of the Government of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (FRY) in Pristina, in which oner person was killed and several injured…