Press Releases

UNMIK/PR/279 PRISTINA---The Interim Administrative Council today opened discussions on the important draft regulation on Self-Government of Municipalities in Kosovo. DSRSG Mr. Tom Koenigs briefed the IAC members about the regulation, which was given to the members last week. Mr. Koenigs said that…

UNMIK/PR/278 PRISTINA--- SRSG Bernard Kouchner strongly condemns the violence which occurred on Friday night when a large crowd of Kosovo Serbs entered the Strpce municipality building, which houses the UNMIK offices and smashed and destroyed everything in sight. The KFOR Information Centre and the…

UNMIK/PR/277 PRISTINA---SRSG Bernard Kouchner welcomed the decision taken this morning by the Serb National Council to rejoin the IAC and the KTC as observers after a temporary suspension of a couple of weeks. This courageous action will allow the Kosovo Serb representatives to once again play their…

UNMIK/PR/276 PRISTINA---PDSRSG Jock Covey today said that there was no textbook solution to building up judiciary in Kosovo in the present extraordinary circumstances. Speaking at the Interim Administrative Council meeting today, which received a detailed briefing on judiciary, Mr. Covey stated that…

UNMIK/PR/275 PRISTINA---The Administrative Departments of Agriculture, Forestry and Rural Development and Environmental Protection, today strongly denied reports that the wheat crop to be harvested in the coming days is contaminated or poisoned. These reports have mainly come out of Klina, Malishevo…

UNMIK/PR/274 PRISTINA---SRSG Bernard Kouchner, COMKFOR Lieutenant General Juan Ortuno, along with all the members of the Kosovo Transitional Council and the Chief Prosecutor of the ICTY, Ms. Carla del Ponte , today laid a wreath at the spot on Mother Teresa Street, where two Kosovo Serbs were shot…

UNMIK/PR/273 The Interim Administrative Council, meeting without its Kosovo Serb member, continued to discuss the merits of a proportional versus majority electoral system for the upcoming municipal elections without coming to a final agreement. SRSG Bernard Kouchner told the IAC that if the issue…

UNMIK/PR/272 PRISTINA---The Interim Administrative Council today discussed the issue of funds collected from the people of Kosovo for the benefit of Kosovo and its people, and particularly the ‘Fund of the Republic of Kosovo’. SRSG Dr. Bernard Kouchner said that IAC is strongly of the opinion that…

UNMIK/PR/270 SRSG Bernard Kouchner, COMKFOR Gen. Juan Ortuno, and two members of the Interim Administrative Council--Ibrahim Rugova and Hashim Thaci--, went to the scene of a tragic mine attack today, where two Kosovo Serb men had been killed and a third injured only a few hours before. The two…