Press Releases

UNMIK/PR/376 Early this morning, UNMIK officials ordered an illegal house in the Dragodon area of Pristina fenced off after owners ignored repeated warnings to cease construction on municipal land. The house was the subject…

UNMIK/PR/377 UNMIK has set up an emergency task force to restore power to the community of Zvecan in northern Mitrovica following a fire Saturday night which destroyed electrical transformers in the Zvecan lead smelter…

UNMIK/PR/373 The situation of non-Albanian communities remains the biggest problem in Kosovo, SRSG Bernard Kouchner told the United Nations Security Council yesterday in New York. "Serbs and Roma in particular are often still…

UNMIK/PR/374 Pristina--Bernardo Cocco and Driton Lajçi, Co-Heads of the Department of Youth, announced in a press conference today the celebration of the First Youth Week in Kosovo with the theme this year focused on…

UNMIK/PR/372 PRISTINA---The Kosovo Transitional Council today dispatched a three- member delegation, along with Mr. Eric Chevallier, senior advisor to the SRSG, to the Dubrava prison to meet hunger strikers demanding the…

UNMIK/PR/371 PRISTINA---The Interim Administrative Council (IAC) today concluded its discussion on the draft regulation establishing the rules of procedure and evidence of the Housing and Property Claims Commission. Mr. Alan…

UNMIK/PR/368 PRISTINA--- The Department of Youth is sending 30 secondary school students from Prizren to Florence, Italy, for a one-week educational visit. The event is taking place within the pact of friendship that ties the…

UNMIK/PR/367 PRISTINA--- On 15 September, a UN employee was taken in by UNMIK Police following allegations of indecent exposure. He was handed over to UN Security to carry out investigations. Under UN regulations, an…

UNMIK/PR/363 PRISTINA---The Kosovo Transitional Council, which received a detailed briefing on the municipal elections today was told that the first ballots for out-of-Kosovo voters will be mailed out from today through…

UNMIK/PR/365 PRISTINA---SRSG Bernard Kouchner announced in Gjakova/ Dakovica yesterday that soon an office dealing specifically with issue of the missing persons and the detained would be opened in the Government Building…