Press Releases

UNMIK/PR/414 PRISTINA---SRSG Dr. Bernard Kouchner, who is in New York to address the UN Security Council this week, has said that he shares the sorrow of the families of the detained and the missing Kosovars, who are…

UNMIK/PR/413 Kosovo's first democratically elected Municipal Assemblies were sworn in today in simultaneous ceremonies held in more than two dozen municipalities. Dr. Kouchner conducted the swearing-in ceremony in the…

UNMIK/PR/411 In UNMIK Press Release # 399, dated 26 October, 2000, an error occurred in reference to the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia. The press release, entitled "Anthony Welch Named Mitrovica Regional Administrator…

UNMIK/PR/410 The news of the cold-blooded murder of four Ashkali men who had just returned to their home village of Dosevac/Dashevc, which they had fled during the war, is shocking and beyond comprehension. Whoever murdered…

UNMIK/PR/408 PRISTINA—SRSG Dr. Bernard Kouchner today informed the Kosovo Transitional Council that he and others in UNMIK were in touch with the authorities in FRY and other countries to ensure the well being of the Kosovo…

UNMIK/PR/406 PRISTINA---The Department of Health and Social Welfare has announced that applicants for the Social Assistance programme Category II are now being accepted by the Centres for Social Work. The Category I programme…

UNMIK/PR/409 PRISTINA---SRSG Dr. Bernard Kouchner today appointed international judge Antti Ruotsalainen to the Kosovo Supreme Court, Pristina. Judge Ruostsalainen was sworn-in at a ceremony this afternoon. He is the first…

UNMIK/PR/407 PRISTINA---The Kosovo Transitional Council (KTC) issued the following statement today: “The Kosovo Transitional Council discussed the situation of unrest in several detention facilities in Serbia, including in…

UNMIK/PR/405 SRSG Bernard Kouchner has signed UNMIK Regulation 2000/60 on Residential Property Claims. This new regulation allows work to start on the more than 700 claims which already have been made for the loss of rights…

UNMIK/PR/402 PRISTINA—SRSG Dr. Bernard Kouchner today congratulated members of the Kosovo Transitional Council for the successful conduct of the municipal elections, saying the people of Kosovo were the real winners in the…