Press Releases

UNMIK/PR/246 The Department of Health and Social Welfare has announced that the new programme to provide social assistance to the most vulnerable families in Kosovo will be launched in June. The scheme will be administered by…

UNMIK/PR/245 United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan sent a message yesterday to family and colleagues of slain UNMIK staff member Petar Topojlksi. The statement was read by UNMIK SRSG Bernard Kouchner following his own…

UNMIK/PR/244 PRISTINA---The JIAS Administrative Department of Public Services has announced the names of candidates to appear for a test for recruitment as professional officers. These candidates will take a written test in…

UNMIK/PR/242 PRISTINA---UNMIK has sought to create an unbiased, independent and multi-ethnic judicial system. This has been a challenging task. It was faced with a judiciary that was 10 years out of practice because it had…

UNMIK/PR/243 PRISTINA---SRSG Bernard Kouchner today expressed his outrage at and condemnation of the “shocking” murder of Petar Topoljski, an UNMIK staff member of Serbian ethnicity, and said that this was a terrible blow to…

UNMIK/PR/241 SRSG Bernard Kouchner issued the following statement this evening: "This evening I received the shocking and appalling news that one of our UNMIK staff members, a young man of Serbian ethnicity, has been murdered…

UNMIK/PR/239 PRISTINA---SRSG Bernard Kouchner today inaugurated the Instrument Landing System (ILS), other navigational equipment and new ground lighting facilities at Pristina’s Slatina Airport. The British Department of…

UNMIK/PR/240 PRISTINA---SRSG Bernard Kouchner today inaugurated the Victims Recovery and Identification Commission, which is to be the key organization charged with identifying missing persons who died during the recent…

UNMIK/PR/238 The Kosovo Transitional Council today adopted the following statement: “The Kosovo Transitional Council demands of the authorities of the FRY the unconditional handover to the UNMIK authorities of all Kosovo…