Press Releases

UNMIK/PR/420 PRISTINA – SRSG Bernard Kouchner is this morning inaugurating the Municipal Assembly in Kosovo’s northernmost municipality, Leposavic. The SRSG, with the assistance of the international municipal administrator…

UNMIK/PR/418 PRISTINA – The first President and Vice President of one of Kosovo’s newly inaugurated municipal assemblies have been elected. Elected members in Novo Brdo/Novo Berde voted in the two officials at the first…

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/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…