Press Releases

UNMIK/PR/277 PRISTINA---SRSG Bernard Kouchner welcomed the decision taken this morning by the Serb National Council to rejoin the IAC and the KTC as observers after a temporary suspension of a couple of weeks. This courageous action will allow the Kosovo Serb representatives to once again play their…

UNMIK/PR/276 PRISTINA---PDSRSG Jock Covey today said that there was no textbook solution to building up judiciary in Kosovo in the present extraordinary circumstances. Speaking at the Interim Administrative Council meeting today, which received a detailed briefing on judiciary, Mr. Covey stated that…

UNMIK/PR/275 PRISTINA---The Administrative Departments of Agriculture, Forestry and Rural Development and Environmental Protection, today strongly denied reports that the wheat crop to be harvested in the coming days is contaminated or poisoned. These reports have mainly come out of Klina, Malishevo…

UNMIK/PR/274 PRISTINA---SRSG Bernard Kouchner, COMKFOR Lieutenant General Juan Ortuno, along with all the members of the Kosovo Transitional Council and the Chief Prosecutor of the ICTY, Ms. Carla del Ponte , today laid a wreath at the spot on Mother Teresa Street, where two Kosovo Serbs were shot…

UNMIK/PR/273 The Interim Administrative Council, meeting without its Kosovo Serb member, continued to discuss the merits of a proportional versus majority electoral system for the upcoming municipal elections without coming to a final agreement. SRSG Bernard Kouchner told the IAC that if the issue…

UNMIK/PR/272 PRISTINA---The Interim Administrative Council today discussed the issue of funds collected from the people of Kosovo for the benefit of Kosovo and its people, and particularly the ‘Fund of the Republic of Kosovo’. SRSG Dr. Bernard Kouchner said that IAC is strongly of the opinion that…

UNMIK/PR/270 SRSG Bernard Kouchner, COMKFOR Gen. Juan Ortuno, and two members of the Interim Administrative Council--Ibrahim Rugova and Hashim Thaci--, went to the scene of a tragic mine attack today, where two Kosovo Serb men had been killed and a third injured only a few hours before. The two…

UNMIK/PR/269 Following a briefing by SRSG Bernard Kouchner on his visit to the United Nations Security Council, the Interim Administrative Council today discussed the upcoming electoral campaign and as well as the electoral system for municipal elections. SRSG Kouchner noted that today is the first…

UNMIK/PR/268 PRISTINA--- PDSRSG Mr. Jock Covey today congratulated the Kosovo Albanian representatives on the Interim Administrative Council for issuing very strong and timely statements against the recent violence in Kosovo. The statements by Mr. Hashim Thaci, Mr. Ibrahim Rugova and Mr. Rexhep…