Press Releases

UNMIK/PR/311 PRISTINA-SRSG Bernard Kouchner held a town hall meeting today in Vushtrri/Vucitrn to discuss UNMIK’s achievements and how to proceed with Kosovo’s future development. Dr. Kouchner met the people of Vushtrri accompanied by the Municipal Administrator and local leaders, including members…

UNMIK/PR/309 PRISTINA—The SRSG Dr. Bernard Kouchner today ended his meetings with the non-Albanian and non-Serbian communities, with an assurance that in future these meetings would be held once a month, either in the communities in which they live or in his office. The first meeting was held with…

UNMIK/PR/308 PRISTINA—The Interim Administrative Council (IAC) today endorsed the draft regulation on the Establishment of the Administrative Department of Public Utilities. The Administrative Department of Utilities would handle the overall management oversight and regulation of matters relating to…

UNMIK/PR/307 PRISTINA—SRSG Dr. Bernard Kouchner yesterday appointed an additional 139 judges and prosecutors and 309 lay-judges in Kosovo. With these appointments, the number of local judges and prosecutors in Kosovo is now 405. Several members of minority communities have been also been appointed…

UNMIK/PR/305 PRISTINA—Describing his recent talks with the Turkish Foreign Minister, Mr. Ismail Cem as “fruitful”, SRSG Dr Bernard Kouchner today told the Kosovo Transitional Council that UNMIK was now in a position to better protect the rights of the Turkish community in Kosovo. He said the Turkish…

UNMIK/PR/304 Kosovo's 30 municipalities have been officially identified by UNMIK Regulation 2000/43 "On the Numbers, Names and Boundaries of Municipalities." The regulation, which entered into force on 27 July 2000, stipulates that the area of each municipality and its boundaries shall be delineated…

UNMIK/PR/303 Pristina – SRSG Bernard Kouchner has expressed his grave concern over the arrest Tuesday night by the Yugoslav Army in Montenegro of two British members of the UNMIK/ OSCE Mission in Kosovo and two Canadian citizens travelling with them. Dr Kouchner calls upon Yugoslav authorities to…

UNMIK/PR/302 PRISTINA— Kosovo’s Interim Administrative Council has condemned the violence in the region which left six people dead in one night alone. But its condemnation has also taken in the apparent increase in politically motivated violence. Over the last week three members of one Roma family…

UNMIK/PR/335 SRSG Bernard Kouchner reacted with outrage to last night's escape of 13 detainees from the Mitrovica Detention Center and vowed to bring to justice both the fugitives and anyone found to have been involved in their flight. "UNMIK is taking its responsibility very seriously in this…

UNMIK/PR/301 Following a break due to the absence of Kosovo political leaders who were attending the Airlie conference in the United States, the Interim Administrative Council resumed meeting today, with a briefing from IAC members on the Airlie event and a discussion on how to follow up on the…