Press Releases

UNMIK/PR/323 The UNMIK Victim Recovery and Identification Commission, along with the OSCE, has been continuing efforts to identify the remains of 176 bodies exhumed by forensics experts from Dragodan cemetery this summer. The exhumations, which were completed in late July, were conducted by a team…

UNMIK/PR/322 PRISTINA— The foundation for Kosovo’s local democracy has been set with the signing into law of the regulation on the Self Government of Municipalities. The regulation covers almost all aspects of municipal government from the composition of the municipal assembly to the work of the…

UNMIK/PR/321 PRISTINA—SRSG Dr. Bernard Kouchner has signed an administrative direction (No. 2000/18) regulating the activities of sports federations, associations and committees in Kosovo for the development of sports. This direction makes it mandatory that 30 per cent of the members of these…

UNMIK/PR/320 Special Representative of the Secretary-General Bernard Kouchner visited the Zvecan lead smelter today, declaring it a "dinosaur …. in desperate shape." After briefing a group of workers on UNMIK's plans to refurbish the plant, Dr. Kouchner took a tour, along with Multinational Brigade…

UNMIK/PR/319 PRISTINA---The Kosovo Transitional Council today received a detailed briefing on the Kosovo Protection Corps, given by the co-heads of the department of Civil Security and Emergency Preparedness, Mr. Bislim Zyrapi and Mr. Roland Nilsson and the KPC Commander, General Agim Ceku. Before…

UNMIK/PR/318 PRISTINA—The Kosovo Transitional Council today unanimously issued the following statement: “The Kosovo Transitional Council is outraged at reports that two Kosovo Albanian prisoners died in prisons in Serbia over the last month. “Adem Cali Sallahu, born 1962, was arrested in Kosovo on 5…

UNMIK/PR/317 The Interim Administrative Council endorsed regulations today amending the Kosovo Consolidated Budget for 2000 and on licensing requirements for the import, manufacture, sale and distribution of pharmaceutical products. The regulations will be signed by SRSG Bernard Kouchner pending…

UNMIK/PR/315 PRISTINA— Public health officers have called for Pristina’s public swimming pool to close. The reason is that levels of bacteria levels at Germia are higher than they should be for a pool. No date has been set for the pool to re-open. Health officers say they just have to wait for the…

UNMIK/PR/313 PRISTINA--UNMIK officials have signed an agreement with a group of major mining companies, ITT Kosovo Consortium Ltd, to begin rehabilitation of the Trepca mining and metallurgical complex in northern Kosovo. The agreement marks the start of the second phase of UNMIK's strategy to…

UNMIK/PR/312 In a move to reverse rising levels of atmospheric lead in northern Mitrovica, UNMIK today assumed responsibility for the Zvecan smelter until air pollution control mechanisms are installed and the affected population tested. UNMIK administrators, supported by UNMIK Police and KFOR, took…