Press Releases

UNMIK/PR/343 The Interim Administrative Council today discussed the recent violence in Kosovo which occurred in the wake of the Day Against Violence on 9 September. These included the murder of Rilindija journalist Shefki…

UNMIK/PR/340 PRISTINA—A group of 35 children of Kosovo from different communities are travelling to France for medical treatment on Saturday 9 September. The trip was made possible thanks to a joint operation by the…

UNMIK/PR/338 PRISTINA—The Kosovo Transitional Council was briefed today on the SRSG Bernard Kouchner’s policy statement on the FRY elections and the escape of detainees from the Mitrovica detention centre on 2 September…

UNMIK/PR/339 SRSG Bernard Kouchner issued the following statement today: Under UNSCR 1244, UNMIK bears the sole responsibility for interim administration in Kosovo. In order to administer any elections within Kosovo, UNMIK…

UNMIK/PR/337 The Interim Administrative Council today endorsed a draft regulation establishing the Department of Trade and Industry. They were briefed by Mr. Pajazit Nushi of the Council for Human Rights and Freedoms on…

UNMIK/PR/336 PRISTINA—The OSCE-run Kosovo Judicial Institute (KJI), in cooperation with the JIAS Department of Judicial Affairs, is hosting an important two-day seminar focussing on international humanitarian law. Legal…

UNMIK/PR/333 ISTOG/ISTOK-Continuing his outreach campaign around the Kosovo countryside, Bernard Kouchner, the Special Representative of the Secretary-General, told a crowd of some 1,000 residents in Istog/Istok that the…

UNMIK/PR/332 The Interim Administrative Council today agreed to support events around Kosovo which are being planned as part of the "Day Against Violence," proposed by local leaders as a follow up to the Airlie House meeting…

UNMIK/PR/330 PRISTINA— The SRSG Bernard Kouchner and German Foreign Minister, Joschka Fischer, have called for action from Kosovo’s Albanian politicians to end violence against the province’s Serbian communities. “We want…

UNMIK/PR/328 PRISTINA— UNMIK Police are questioning a Kosovo Albanian man whose car hit a group of Serbian children in Skulanovo village near Lipjan, Sunday afternoon. Despite early reports which said that four of the…