Press Releases

UNMIK/PR/730 SRSG Michael Steiner delivered the opening address to a donors’ briefing on returns held today in Pristina under the auspices of UNMIK’s Office of Returns and Communities and UNHCR. The full text of his speech…

UNMIK/PR/728 PRISTINA-UNMIK and UNHCR officials today briefed representatives of donor countries on their assessments and plans for facilitating the returns of non-Albanian displaced persons to Kosovo. “Respect for the right…

UNMIK/PR/729 SRSG Michael Steiner announced today that municipal elections will be held across Kosovo on 26 October, 2002. He explained that a delay in passage of the OSCE elections budget, which was approved on 19 April…

UNMIK/PR/727 SRSG Michael Steiner announced today a regional conference to discuss ways to combat cigarette smuggling that will be held in Pristina on Friday, 10 May. Ministers of finance and customs directors from Albania…

UNMIK/PR/726 Pristina – SRSG Michael Steiner celebrated Orthodox Easter Sunday by attending a church service at Kosovo’s Pec Patriarchate. He was joined for the occasion by Kosovo Prime Minister Bajram Rexhepi and COMKFOR…

UNMIK/PR/725 UNMIK has deposited euro 500,000 allocated from contingency funds into a new bank account to manage the Earthquake Emergency Fund (EEF), established by SRSG Michael Steiner this week. UNMIK’s emergency program is…

UNMIK/PR/724 SRSG Michael Steiner today visited central Gnjilan/Gnjilane and nearby villages affected by the 24 April earthquake in which one man was killed and dozens injured. “Earthquakes do not respect ethnic divisions…

UNMIK/PR/723 PRISTINA--Deputy Special Representative of the Secretary-General Andy Bearpark, who heads Pillar IV, Reconstruction and Economic Development, gave the following statement at a press briefing at 10:30 a.m. today…

UNMIK/PR/720 PRISTINA - The International Prosecutor for Prizren has filed an indictment charging Martin Almer, Feriz Thaqi and Isa Ulluri with grave bodily injury, light bodily injury, extraction of a statement under duress…

UNMIK/PR/719 Mr. President, Members of the Council, I am pleased to tell you that the UN operation in Kosovo under Resolution 1244 has entered a new phase, allowing us to make new proposals for the way ahead. In the period…