Press Releases

UNMIK/PR/415 Pristina--The Kosovo Transitional Council (KTC) today issued the following statement: “The Kosovo Transitional Council expresses its deep sorrow at the continued detention of Kosovo prisoners illegally detained…

UNMIK/PR/417 PRISTINA---UNMIK officials met today in Pristina with the Head and one expert of the FRY Presidential Office for Refugees, IDP's, and Missing Persons, accompanied by a co-Minister from the Serbian Ministry of…

UNMIK/PR/416 PRISTINA---The Kosovo Transitional Council (KTC) today had a detailed discussion on the issue of the Kosovo Albanian prisoners in the Serbian jails and the protests being held in Kosovo seeking their release. The…

UNMIK/PR/414 PRISTINA---SRSG Dr. Bernard Kouchner, who is in New York to address the UN Security Council this week, has said that he shares the sorrow of the families of the detained and the missing Kosovars, who are…

UNMIK/PR/413 Kosovo's first democratically elected Municipal Assemblies were sworn in today in simultaneous ceremonies held in more than two dozen municipalities. Dr. Kouchner conducted the swearing-in ceremony in the…

UNMIK/PR/411 In UNMIK Press Release # 399, dated 26 October, 2000, an error occurred in reference to the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia. The press release, entitled "Anthony Welch Named Mitrovica Regional Administrator…

UNMIK/PR/410 The news of the cold-blooded murder of four Ashkali men who had just returned to their home village of Dosevac/Dashevc, which they had fled during the war, is shocking and beyond comprehension. Whoever murdered…

UNMIK/PR/408 PRISTINA—SRSG Dr. Bernard Kouchner today informed the Kosovo Transitional Council that he and others in UNMIK were in touch with the authorities in FRY and other countries to ensure the well being of the Kosovo…

UNMIK/PR/406 PRISTINA---The Department of Health and Social Welfare has announced that applicants for the Social Assistance programme Category II are now being accepted by the Centres for Social Work. The Category I programme…

UNMIK/PR/409 PRISTINA---SRSG Dr. Bernard Kouchner today appointed international judge Antti Ruotsalainen to the Kosovo Supreme Court, Pristina. Judge Ruostsalainen was sworn-in at a ceremony this afternoon. He is the first…