Press Releases

UNMIK/PR/1201 Mr. Prime Minister, Municipal Assembly Presidents, Party Leaders, Ladies and Gentlemen: I am very pleased to join you here this morning to address how we make standards a reality for everyone in Kosovo. Your role in municipal government could not be more important in this task that is…

UNMIK/PR/1200 PRISTINA – On 25 June 2004, a panel composed of three international judges of the District Court of Gnjilane, pronounced the following verdict in the criminal case against Shefqet Musliu and four other accused: The accused SHEFQET MUSLIU was found guilty of the offences of kidnapping…

UNMIK/PR/1199 PRISTINA - Representatives of the international community, led by UNMIK and the PISG held a friendly football match today at Pristina Stadium to mark 23 June as the Olympic Day. Prime Minister Bajram Rexhepi captained the PISG team, while the head of Pillar IV Nickolaus Lambsdorff, led…

UNMIK/PR/1198 PRISTINA - It has come to our attention that companies and individuals both inside and outside Kosovo without authorization are using HPD documents and an outdated logo to gain personal profit facilitating real estate transactions in Kosovo. HPD is not mandated, hence not engaged in…

UNMIK/PR/1197 PRISTINA – Today 36 Kosovans took the Oath of Office as new members of the judicial and prosecutorial service. Mr Jean-Christian Cady, Deputy SRSG for Police and Justice, and Mr Rexhep Haximusa, President of the Supreme Court of Kosovo, officiated at the swearing-in ceremony held at…

UNMIK/PR/1196 The Office of Gender Affairs in UNMIK’s Civil Administration, has published the first complete survey of all available gender statistics, “Women and Men in Kosovo”, which will contribute to redressing the lack of gender disaggregated data at the disposal of Kosovar institutions. The…

UNMIK/PR/1195 PRISTINA - SRSG Harri Holkeri today met with EU High Representative for the Common Foreign and Security Policy Javier Solana, to discuss the developments and the progress made since the riots of March 2004. The SRSG and the High Representative strongly condemned Saturday’s drive-by…

UNMIK/PR/1193 PRISTINA - UNMIK objects to the public statements made by a Kosovo lawyer on 2 June 2004 with reference to the investigations into the tragic incident of 16 March 2004 when three children from Cabra village drowned in the Ibar river in Mitrovica. After the investigations into the…

UNMIK/PR/1192 PRISTINA - PDSRSG Charles Brayshaw today chaired the 19th Economic and Fiscal Council meeting which at the same time marked the two-year anniversary since its establishment. The EFC discussed the regulation on reduction of customs tariffs for capital goods and intermediate goods, the…

UNMIK/PR/1191 PRISTINA - UNMIK expresses its dismay at the report in the Serbian weekly Zona Sumraka, which Epoka e Re obediently republished today. The report, entitled “Holkeri, A Light-Minded ‘Agent’ ”, is utterly false and defamatory. This deplorable fabrication slanders an international civil…