Press Releases

UNMIK/PR/111 PRISTINA--KEK, the Kosovo power company, has begun to issue bills for electricity supplied during the month of October for domestic customers, and September/October for industrial/commercial customers. Bills will be calculated according to consumption of energy. For those premises…

UNMIK/PR/109 PRIZREN – UNMIK’s Regional Administration has begun distributing 15,000 cubic meters of firewood and 10,000 tons of coal free of charge to schools, hospitals and needy residents in the Prizren region. The fuel, valued at 2.1 million Deutsche marks, was donated by the Japanese Government…

UNMIK/PR/110 Pristina—Representatives of some 12 banks interested in operating in Kosovo attended a seminar on bank licensing held on 7 December by the Banking and Payments Authority of Kosovo (BPK). At the seminar, the BPK announced an extension of the deadline for filing bank license applications…

UNMIK/PR/108 PRISTINA - On the last leg of his visit to neighbouring countries, SRSG Bernard Kouchner met yesterday afternoon in Tirana, Albania, with the President of the Republic, Rexhep Meidani, Prime Minister I. Meta and Deputy Foreign Minister B. Blushi, all of whom stressed that stability in…

UNMIK/PR/107 SRSG Bernard Kouchner arrived in Skopje this morning for high-level talks with Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonian (FYROM) Government representatives on the first leg of a visit that will also take him to Albania for talks with the Government there. At the meeting with the Prime…

UNMIK/PR/106 PRISTINA--The Kosovo Transitional Council today condemned the brutal attack early Monday morning on a Serb family in which a man was shot to death and his wife and mother-in-law beaten by a crowd celebrating a Kosovar Albanian holiday. The Special Representative of the Secretary-General…

UNMIK/PR/105 PRISTINA – Hundreds of cheering students enthusiastically greeted Bernard Kouchner, the Special Representative of the Secretary-General, during his visit to the Dardania Primary School to check out the school’s new central heating. Last Saturday, Dr. Kouchner was on hand to flip the…

UNMIK/PR/103 PRISTINA – Today, UNMIK started the temporary registration of all motor vehicles in Kosovo. The Special Representatives of the Secretary-General, Bernard Kouchner, marked the start of the registration process by adjusting a new license plate to the first vehicle at the registration…

UNMIK/PR/104 PRISTINA – The Special Representative of the Secretary-General, Bernard Kouchner, offered his thanks to the Dutch Government for their $15 million contribution to support the Kosovo Consolidated Budget for the 1999 Fiscal Year. The money will be used by the Civil Administration to cover…

UNMIK/PR/100 PRISTINA - UNMIK is urgently seeking to contract with snow clearance companies with crews capable of removing snow and ice on Kosovo roads in winter. In a press release issued on 23 November, the appeal was incorrectly made for snow plow drivers . In actuality, UNMIK is seeking…