News (Consolidated) - UNSOM

Mr. President, Excellencies, On the 19th of April, following difficult political negotiations personally facilitated by EU High Representative Catherine Ashton, a historic “First Agreement on principles governing the normalization of relations” was initialed between Belgrade and Pristina. The…

UN envoy urges Serbia and Kosovo to overcome past feuds and seek stability The United Nations envoy in Kosovo today called on both Serbia and Kosovo to put past disputes behind them and focus instead on promoting mutual prosperity and stability, urging the international community, for its part, to…

14 May 2012 Mr. President, Excellencies, During the last briefing to the Council in February, Assistant Secretary-General Edmond Mulet urged the Council to see the year of 2012 as a year for fresh re-examination of the international effort in Kosovo. He suggested that this year would offer both…

Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon will depart next Monday for a 10-day trip that will take him to China and South-eastern Europe. In China, Mr. Ban will take part in the 5th Ministerial Conference of the Forum on China-Africa Cooperation. While in the capital, Beijing, he will also meet with the country…

UN Political Director for Europe visits UNMIK 　 13 February 2014 - Pristina - SRSG Farid Zarif met the Director of the UN Department of Political Affairs' Europe Division, Elizabeth Spehar, at UNMIK Headquarters today. Ms. Spehar traveled to the region from UN Headquarters in New York, to discuss…

Novobërdë/Novo Brdo As part of a series of donations of equipment to regions across Kosovo, UNMIK Deputy SRSG Robert Sorenson visited the municipality of Novobërdë/Novo Brdo on 11 December , where he met with Mayor Bajrush Ymeri to present the items in a handover ceremony. "It’s really a pleasure…

United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on the 11th of October 2011 announced the appointment of Farid Zarif of Afghanistan as his Special Representative and Head of the United Nations Interim Administration Mission in Kosovo (UNMIK). Mr. Zarif succeeds Lamberto Zannier of Italy, who headed…

Global Open Day on Women, Peace and Security in Kosovo is an opportunity to increase awareness of women’s representation and participation in decision-making processes, to promote access to justice, and to help offer peace and security resolutions to empower women in Kosovo. On September 12, the…

UN News Centre 12 January 2011 –On the one-year anniversary of the earthquake which devastated Haiti, the United Nations today remembered the disaster’s victims in memorial events in Port-au-Prince, New York and elsewhere around the world. In the Haitian capital of Port-au-Prince, staff at the…

Kosovo Missing Persons families’ associations received Cyprus Missing Persons Association Pristina, 11 November 2013 - Representatives of the Turkish Cypriot and Greek Cypriot organizations of the Cyprus Missing Persons Association visited the Kosovo Missing Persons families’ associations. The…

Pristina, 11 October 2013 - SRSG Farid Zarif met in UNMIK HQ with Mr. Chaloka Beyani, Special Rapporteur on the Human Rights of Internally Displaced Persons. Special Rapporteur on the Human Rights of Internally Displaced Persons visits UNMIK Pristina, 11 October 2013 - SRSG Farid Zarif met in UNMIK…

September 21, 2011, marks the 30th anniversary of the International Day of Peace. As we begin today a 100-day countdown to the observance, we pay tribute to the many civil society activists who lent the strength of their imagination to the institution of this Day. The United Nations General Assembly…