Press Releases

UNMIK/PR/320 Special Representative of the Secretary-General Bernard Kouchner visited the Zvecan lead smelter today, declaring it a "dinosaur …. in desperate shape." After briefing a group of workers on UNMIK's plans to…

UNMIK/PR/318 PRISTINA—The Kosovo Transitional Council today unanimously issued the following statement: “The Kosovo Transitional Council is outraged at reports that two Kosovo Albanian prisoners died in prisons in Serbia over…

UNMIK/PR/317 The Interim Administrative Council endorsed regulations today amending the Kosovo Consolidated Budget for 2000 and on licensing requirements for the import, manufacture, sale and distribution of pharmaceutical…

UNMIK/PR/312 In a move to reverse rising levels of atmospheric lead in northern Mitrovica, UNMIK today assumed responsibility for the Zvecan smelter until air pollution control mechanisms are installed and the affected…

UNMIK/PR/313 PRISTINA--UNMIK officials have signed an agreement with a group of major mining companies, ITT Kosovo Consortium Ltd, to begin rehabilitation of the Trepca mining and metallurgical complex in northern Kosovo. The…

UNMIK/PR/315 PRISTINA— Public health officers have called for Pristina’s public swimming pool to close. The reason is that levels of bacteria levels at Germia are higher than they should be for a pool. No date has been set…

UNMIK/PR/311 PRISTINA-SRSG Bernard Kouchner held a town hall meeting today in Vushtrri/Vucitrn to discuss UNMIK’s achievements and how to proceed with Kosovo’s future development. Dr. Kouchner met the people of Vushtrri…

UNMIK/PR/309 PRISTINA—The SRSG Dr. Bernard Kouchner today ended his meetings with the non-Albanian and non-Serbian communities, with an assurance that in future these meetings would be held once a month, either in the…

UNMIK/PR/308 PRISTINA—The Interim Administrative Council (IAC) today endorsed the draft regulation on the Establishment of the Administrative Department of Public Utilities. The Administrative Department of Utilities would…

UNMIK/PR/307 PRISTINA—SRSG Dr. Bernard Kouchner yesterday appointed an additional 139 judges and prosecutors and 309 lay-judges in Kosovo. With these appointments, the number of local judges and prosecutors in Kosovo is now…