Press Releases

UNMIK/PR/771 PRISTINA - UNMIK has taken a step closer to creating a multiethnic judiciary after judicial officials in Serbia agreed to encourage Kosovo Serb judicial experts to apply for posts in the Kosovo judiciary. Currently, of 320 judges and prosecutors serving in Kosovo, only three Kosovo…

UNMIK/PR/770 On Thursday 4 July UNMIK Customs Officers seized over 20 million cigarettes in raids on premises in the Lesak (Leposavic) area of Kosovo. The seizure was as a result of close co-operation between Customs, KFOR and Police. Initial enquiries suggest that the cigarettes, all Marlboro brand…

UNMIK/PR/769 UNMIK Police announced today the arrests of a number of individuals on suspicion of involvement in a brutal attack on a Kosovo Albanian family in Glogovac last year. “The attack on the family Hajra resulted in the deaths of Mr. Hajra, his wife and three of his four children,” said…

UNMIK/PR/767 Pristina, 27 June 2002 Mr. Prime Minister, Mr. Piper, ladies and gentlemen: I am pleased to be here today for the launching of the first UNDP Human Development Report on Kosovo. This is indeed an important event for Kosovo and the International Community. The conclusions of this UNDP…

UNMIK/PR/766 Geneva, 27 June 2002 Mr. High Commissioner, Ladies and Gentlemen, Bosnia has been a success. In Kosovo we still have to get there. I am grateful to Ruud Lubbers, the UN High Commissioner for Refugees, for the opportunity to discuss returns in this regional format. All of us coming from…

UNMIK/PR/765 PRISTINA – UNMIK welcomes the decision of the FYROM Government to abolish visas for the holders of the UNMIK Travel Document. The decision comes into force from today. The decision is the result of discussions between UNMIK and FYROM, aimed at easing movement of people between Kosovo…

UNMIK/PR/763 PRISTINA – The Economic and Fiscal Council (EFC), which met yesterday for the second time, discussed the issue of unregulated gambling activities in Kosovo. It took positive note of SRSG Michael Steiner’s decision to issue an administrative direction to regulate gambling activities in…

UNMIK/PR/764 A consultative planning session attended by representatives of 12 donor countries was held in Brussels on 21 June, hosted by the UN HABITAT Brussels Office, and co-chaired by Anna Tibaijuka, Executive Director of UN-Habitat, and Tom Koenigs, UNMIK Deputy Special Representative of the…

UNMIK/PR/763 SRSG Michael Steiner visited the UNMIK mortuary at Orahovac/Rahovec today as part of a tour of the greater Prizren region. There he viewed forensics work ongoing with remains found in the nearby region by a team of international pathologists, anthropologists and other experts provided…

UNMIK/PR/761 Pristina – For the second time in a week, SRSG Michael Steiner met with representatives of the families of Kosovo’s missing. Last Friday he met with Albanian representatives of families of the missing; today he met jointly with Albanian and Serb representatives of the families. “It is…