Press Releases

UNMIK/PR/654 "I am pleased and proud today to hear of the selection of the United Nations and Secretary General Kofi Annan to share the Nobel Peace Prize," said Tom Koenigs, Acting SRSG of the UN Mission in Kosovo. "Joining…

UNMIK/PR/653 PRISTINA - The Interim Administrative Council (IAC) was today informed about steps being taken to start the process of issuing driving licenses in Kosovo when the draft regulation on Documents Permitting the…

UNMIK/PR/652 A 674,000 DM grant program financed by the Italian government and implemented by UNMIK's Civil Administration has resulted in income generation for hundreds of Kosovo residents. The UNMIIK Resource Management…

UNMIK/PR/651 PRISTINA - The Kosovo Transitional Council met today for the last time in a joint session with the Interim Administrative Council (IAC). The meeting was devoted to a discussion on security and justice issues in…

UNMIK/PR/650 PRISTINA - The Interim Administrative Council (IAC) agreed today to hold a joint session with the Kosovo Transitional Council (KTC) on 2 October devoted to security issues. The joint session would also mark the…

UNMIK/PR/649 The Detention Review Commission established by UNMIK regulation to review extra-judicial detention by executive order has decided that the detention by executive order of three suspects in the Nis bus bombing is…

UNMIK/PR/648 More than one million Kosovo residents have now been civilly registered and most possess UNMIK ID cards thanks to a system that is now secure and reliable, Peter Schumann, co-head of the Department of Public…

UNMIK/PR/647 New York - Members of the Security Council heard a briefing by Mr. Nebojsa Covic, Deputy Prime Minister of Serbia (Federal Republic of Yugoslavia). The Special Representative of the Secretary-General, Mr. Hans…

UNMIK/PR/577 PRISTINA – UNMIK wishes to correct the false description in the Belgrade press of the tax collection points on the administrative boundary with Serbia as customs points. UNMIK wishes to reiterate that UNMIK…

UNMIK/PR/524 Forestry and Rural Development (DAFRD), has banned the import into Kosovo of all live biungulates (cattle, sheep, goats and pigs) and biungulate products (meat, meat-products, milk, milk-products, semen, ova…