Press Releases

UNMIK/PR/649 The Detention Review Commission established by UNMIK regulation to review extra-judicial detention by executive order has decided that the detention by executive order of three suspects in the Nis bus bombing is…

UNMIK/PR/648 More than one million Kosovo residents have now been civilly registered and most possess UNMIK ID cards thanks to a system that is now secure and reliable, Peter Schumann, co-head of the Department of Public…

UNMIK/PR/647 New York - Members of the Security Council heard a briefing by Mr. Nebojsa Covic, Deputy Prime Minister of Serbia (Federal Republic of Yugoslavia). The Special Representative of the Secretary-General, Mr. Hans…

UNMIK/PR/577 PRISTINA – UNMIK wishes to correct the false description in the Belgrade press of the tax collection points on the administrative boundary with Serbia as customs points. UNMIK wishes to reiterate that UNMIK…

UNMIK/PR/546 PRISTINA- SRSG Hans Haekkerup said today he was horrified to learn of the deaths of two civilians and the injury to many others during a mortar attack on the Kosovo village of Krivenik. British journalist Kerem…

UNMIK/PR/542 PRISTINA – Members of the IAC expressed concern today over the conflict around Tetovo in Macedonia and called for pressure on the FYROM government to quickly begin a dialogue with ethnic Albanians to resolve the…

UNMIK/PR/543 PRISTINA - The SRSG Hans Haekkerup denied today a report printed in the latest issue of the Economist magazine that he had decided Kosovo-wide elections would only be held in 2002 instead of this year as planned…

UNMIK/PR/541 In order to put an end to aggressive commercial practices that, in the long run, would jeopardize the viability of the insurance sector in Kosovo, Tom Koenigs, Deputy Special Representative of the Secretary…

UNMIK/PR/538 SG/SM/7748 Good morning, ladies and gentlemen. I am here mainly to answer your questions, but let me start by mentioning three or four things that are particularly on my mind. My most immediate concern is the…

UNMIK/PR/539 Pristina – The leaders of the three main political parties in Kosovo called on extremist groups in Macedonia today to end the fighting and return to their homes. A declaration signed by Ibrahim Rugova of the LDK…