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UNMIK/PR/1104 PRISTINA –SRSG Harri Holkeri met with Prime Minister Bajram Rexhepi and members of the government this afternoon to discuss KTA and privatization related issues. At the meeting, which was initiated by the Prime Minister, members of the government expressed their concerns over the…

UNMIK/PR/1101 PRISTINA - SRSG Harri Holkeri made the following remarks at the New Year’s reception held in UNMIK today: Excellences, Ladies and Gentlemen, First of all, to those whom I have not yet had the chance to do so, let me wish a very happy, healthy and successful New Year! To all of you, a…

UNMIK/PR/1096 PRISTINA – SRSG Harri Holkeri today attended the Orthodox Christmas service in Decani monastery and later met the head of the Serbian Orthodox Church Patriarch Pavle in the Pec monastery. The SRSG also visited Decani town where the President of the Municipal Assembly Ibrahim Selmonaj…

UNMIK/PR/1143 PRISTINA – SRSG Harri Holkeri, CINCSOUTH Admiral Gregory Johnson, the Quint representatives, President Ibrahim Rugova, Prime Minister Bajram Rexhepi, Assembly President Nexhat Daci, AAK leader Ramush Haradinaj and COMKFOR Lt. General Holger Kammerhoff issued the following statement…

UNMIK/PR/1814 UNMIK is concerned by the recent violent events in the Pristina city centre over the past two days. Such acts have nothing to do with the exercise of the democratic right to express legitimate grievances. It is the responsibility of the Kosovo Police to ensure public safety and to take…

UNMIK/PR/1813 PRISTINA – The Special Representative of the Secretary-General (SRSG) and Head of the United Nations Mission in Kosovo (UNMIK), Farid Zarif, met today with the new Prime Minister of Kosovo, Mr. Isa Mustafa. The SRSG congratulated the Prime Minister on the formation of the new…

UNMIK/PR/1812 PRISTINA – The Deputy Special Representative of the Secretary-General (DSRSG) in Kosovo, Jennifer Brush, today praised representatives of the Kosovo Police (KP), stating: “You are working to enhance public order and to prevent and fight crime. All of us who live and work in Kosovo can…

UNMIK/PR/1811 PRISTINA – Pristina, 26 November 2014: The Deputy Special Representative of the Secretary-General (DSRSG) in Kosovo, Jennifer Brush, today told women civil society representatives: “I urge you to demonstrate courage, resolve and creativity, in tending to the needs of your society, so…

Distinguished guests, Friends, colleagues, ladies and gentlemen, I am honored to address the Global Open Day 2014 event in Kosovo. In fact, I am honored to be back in Kosovo, having visited Fushe Kosove/Kosovo Polje 41 years ago as a high school foreign exchange student in the former Yugoslavia. At…

SG/A/1502-BIO/4625-PKO/434 United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon announced today the appointment of Jennifer Brush of the United States as his Deputy Special Representative for the United Nations Interim Administration Mission in Kosovo (UNMIK). Ms. Brush succeeded Robert Sorenson of the…

SC/11545 Despite outbreaks of hostilities and continuing tensions, progress was still unfolding towards normalization and reconciliation between the authorities of Belgrade and Pristina and within Kosovo itself, said the United Nations top official, as he gave an overview of the Secretary-General’s…