Press Releases

UNMIK/PR/718 SRSG Michael Steiner delivered the following address today at the University of Pristina titled “A New Generation, A New Economy,” on UNMIK’s plans for privatization and revitalizing the Kosovo economy. “Good…

UNMIK/PR716 Pristina – Six Ashkali families will return to their homes in Vushtrii/Vucitrn today. Their return to Kosovo, which was planned over the last year, has been positively supported by Vushtrii municipal authorities…

UNMIK/PR/715 Pristina – SRSG Michael Steiner today sent a letter to Bishop Artemije on issues of importance to the future of Kosovo: peace and stability, rule of law, returns, the recent violence in North Mitrovica. SRSG…

UNMIK/PR/713 SRSG Michael Steiner and authorities of the FRY and Serbia yesterday signed an Agreement on the Transfer of Sentenced Prisoners. The agreement brings Yugoslavia and Kosovo into conformity with the European…

UNMIK/PR/712 Pristina – SRSG Michael Steiner spent the Easter weekend visiting Kosovo’s various regions in an effort to become better acquainted with the people, culture and issues affecting the lives of Kosovars. On Saturday…

UNMIK/PR/710 Pristina – SRSG Michael Steiner today welcomed the release of 80 Kosovo Albanian political prisoners who had been held for the last three years in Serbian prisons. SRSG Michael Steiner, who went to Dubrava Prison…

UNMIK/PR/709 SRSG Michael Steiner announced today that all Kosovo Albanians remaining in Serbian prisons who so wished have been returned to Kosovo. These were the last known Kosovo Albanians held in Serbia, since Yugoslav…

UNMIK/PR/708 Pristina - SRSG Michael Steiner has signed Regulation 2002/6 on Covert and Technical Measures of Surveillance and Investigation, which is intended to strengthen efforts to combat organized and other serious crime…

UNMIK/PR/706 Pristina--- On 25 March, UNMIK, in co-operation with UNHCR, through the Municipal Civil Registration Centres in the five regions (Gjilan/ Gnjilane, Mitrovica, Peja/ Pec, Prishtina/ Pristina and Prizren) will…

UNMIK/PR/707 PRISTINA - Upon the invitation of President Boris Trajkovski, SRSG Michael Steiner today traveled to Skopje for his first official visit to the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia since he took office in…