Press Releases

UNMIK/PR/315 PRISTINA— Public health officers have called for Pristina’s public swimming pool to close. The reason is that levels of bacteria levels at Germia are higher than they should be for a pool. No date has been set…

UNMIK/PR/311 PRISTINA-SRSG Bernard Kouchner held a town hall meeting today in Vushtrri/Vucitrn to discuss UNMIK’s achievements and how to proceed with Kosovo’s future development. Dr. Kouchner met the people of Vushtrri…

UNMIK/PR/308 PRISTINA—The Interim Administrative Council (IAC) today endorsed the draft regulation on the Establishment of the Administrative Department of Public Utilities. The Administrative Department of Utilities would…

UNMIK/PR/309 PRISTINA—The SRSG Dr. Bernard Kouchner today ended his meetings with the non-Albanian and non-Serbian communities, with an assurance that in future these meetings would be held once a month, either in the…

UNMIK/PR/307 PRISTINA—SRSG Dr. Bernard Kouchner yesterday appointed an additional 139 judges and prosecutors and 309 lay-judges in Kosovo. With these appointments, the number of local judges and prosecutors in Kosovo is now…

UNMIK/PR/305 PRISTINA—Describing his recent talks with the Turkish Foreign Minister, Mr. Ismail Cem as “fruitful”, SRSG Dr Bernard Kouchner today told the Kosovo Transitional Council that UNMIK was now in a position to better…

UNMIK/PR/304 Kosovo's 30 municipalities have been officially identified by UNMIK Regulation 2000/43 "On the Numbers, Names and Boundaries of Municipalities." The regulation, which entered into force on 27 July 2000…

UNMIK/PR/302 PRISTINA— Kosovo’s Interim Administrative Council has condemned the violence in the region which left six people dead in one night alone. But its condemnation has also taken in the apparent increase in…

UNMIK/PR/303 Pristina – SRSG Bernard Kouchner has expressed his grave concern over the arrest Tuesday night by the Yugoslav Army in Montenegro of two British members of the UNMIK/ OSCE Mission in Kosovo and two Canadian…

UNMIK/PR/335 SRSG Bernard Kouchner reacted with outrage to last night's escape of 13 detainees from the Mitrovica Detention Center and vowed to bring to justice both the fugitives and anyone found to have been involved in…