Press Releases

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…

UNMIK/PR/407 PRISTINA---The Kosovo Transitional Council (KTC) issued the following statement today: “The Kosovo Transitional Council discussed the situation of unrest in several detention facilities in Serbia, including in…

UNMIK/PR/405 SRSG Bernard Kouchner has signed UNMIK Regulation 2000/60 on Residential Property Claims. This new regulation allows work to start on the more than 700 claims which already have been made for the loss of rights…

UNMIK/PR/402 PRISTINA—SRSG Dr. Bernard Kouchner today congratulated members of the Kosovo Transitional Council for the successful conduct of the municipal elections, saying the people of Kosovo were the real winners in the…

UNMIK/PR/403 "I am absolutely delighted and relieved at the news that Dr. Flora Brovina was released today from prison in Pozarevac in Serbia. I am overjoyed for her family. She should be crossing into Kosovo at this very…

UNMIK/PR/401 Pristina-- SRSG Bernard Kouchner opened today the second Resource Centre on Detainees and Missing Persons in Gracanica. The first Resource Centre was inaugurated in Pristina on 12 October. At the Resource Centre…

UNMIK/PR/400 Pristina-- SRSG Bernard Kouchner yesterday visited Kosovo B Power Plant to see the progress made in the overhaul of the unit B2, and to assess the power situation in Kosovo before winter. Dr. Kouchner was briefed…

UNMIK/PR/399 PRISTINA---SRSG Bernard Kouchner has named Anthony Welch of the UK as the new Regional Administrator for Mitrovica. When Welch, a retired British Army Brigadier, takes up his post with UNMIK in November, he…

UNMIK/PR/398 PRISTINA---UNMIK has established a Resource Support Centre at Radio Television Kosovo (RTK TV) to support journalists covering the election results period. The center will be open to media beginning Saturday 28…