Press Releases

UNMIK/PR/323 The UNMIK Victim Recovery and Identification Commission, along with the OSCE, has been continuing efforts to identify the remains of 176 bodies exhumed by forensics experts from Dragodan cemetery this summer. The…

UNMIK/PR/324 PRISTINA--SRSG Bernard Kouchner has signed a regulation establishing the administrative Department of Youth. The department will be responsible for the overall management of all matters concerning youth in Kosovo…

UNMIK/PR/322 PRISTINA— The foundation for Kosovo’s local democracy has been set with the signing into law of the regulation on the Self Government of Municipalities. The regulation covers almost all aspects of municipal…

UNMIK/PR/321 PRISTINA—SRSG Dr. Bernard Kouchner has signed an administrative direction (No. 2000/18) regulating the activities of sports federations, associations and committees in Kosovo for the development of sports. This…

UNMIK/PR/319 PRISTINA---The Kosovo Transitional Council today received a detailed briefing on the Kosovo Protection Corps, given by the co-heads of the department of Civil Security and Emergency Preparedness, Mr. Bislim…

UNMIK/PR/320 Special Representative of the Secretary-General Bernard Kouchner visited the Zvecan lead smelter today, declaring it a "dinosaur …. in desperate shape." After briefing a group of workers on UNMIK's plans to…

UNMIK/PR/318 PRISTINA—The Kosovo Transitional Council today unanimously issued the following statement: “The Kosovo Transitional Council is outraged at reports that two Kosovo Albanian prisoners died in prisons in Serbia over…

UNMIK/PR/317 The Interim Administrative Council endorsed regulations today amending the Kosovo Consolidated Budget for 2000 and on licensing requirements for the import, manufacture, sale and distribution of pharmaceutical…

UNMIK/PR/312 In a move to reverse rising levels of atmospheric lead in northern Mitrovica, UNMIK today assumed responsibility for the Zvecan smelter until air pollution control mechanisms are installed and the affected…

UNMIK/PR/313 PRISTINA--UNMIK officials have signed an agreement with a group of major mining companies, ITT Kosovo Consortium Ltd, to begin rehabilitation of the Trepca mining and metallurgical complex in northern Kosovo. The…