News (Consolidated) - UNSOM

UNMIK/PR/149 Pristina -- We have achieved a great deal in the last six weeks. Of course a lot remains to be done, including working out the fine points of the regulations that will govern the work of the interim units of the Joint Interim Administrative Structure, also staffing of the departments…

UNMIK/PR/150 Pristina -- UNMIK strongly condemned the killing of two people and the wounding of another three when the UNHCR weekly shuttle was hit by an anti-tank rocket today. The shuttle, carrying 49 passengers, was travelling from Banja to Mitrovica when it was hit by the rocket near the village…

UNMIK/PR/3 Pristina - Sergio Vieira de Mello, head of the United Nations Interim Administration mission in Kosovo (UNMIK) and Special Representative of the Secretary-General a.i. met today at the newly-established UNMIK headquarters in Pristina with the Foreign Ministers of Hubert Vedrine of France…

UNMIK/PR/138 PRISTINA--One unit of Kosovo's major power plant, which has been out of operation and under repair for two weeks, was restarted today and is providing Kosovo with 220 megawatts for a total of 430 megawatts of much-needed electricity. Unit One of Kosovo B, which has now been repaired…

UNMIK/PR/727 SRSG Michael Steiner announced today a regional conference to discuss ways to combat cigarette smuggling that will be held in Pristina on Friday, 10 May. Ministers of finance and customs directors from Albania, Montenegro, Bosnia-Hercegovina, Croatia, Serbia, Bulgaria, and the former…

UNMIK/PR/1747 PRISTINA – “UNMIK, in light of the recommendation of the Panel, intends to follow up on the letter of the UNMIK Department of Justice of September 2008 to the Courts in Kosovo and to request the European Union Rule of Law Mission in Kosovo (EULEX), that has taken over from UNMIK all…

UNMIK/PR/1744 PRISTINA – SRSG Lamberto Zannier today issued the following message on the occasion of the holiday of Kurban Bajram: “On behalf of everyone in UNMIK I would like to offer my warmest congratulations on the holiday of Kurban Bajram. Today’s holiday is a time of generosity and sharing…

UNMIK/PR/1743 In the course of a visit to Tirana, SRSG Lamberto Zannier had meetings with Prime Minister Sali Berisha and Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Ilir Meta, and the diplomatic corps. Mr. Zannier described the role of the UN in Kosovo following UNMIK’s reconfiguration. With regard…

UNMIK/PR/704 Pristina--Kosovo Prime Minister Bajram Rexhepi today opened the first official meeting of his cabinet, laying out the priorities for the Provisional Institutions of Self-Government. PDSRSG Charles Brayshaw was invited to address the meeting. (SRSG Michael Steiner was in Moscow today.)…

UNMIK/PR/710 Pristina – SRSG Michael Steiner today welcomed the release of 80 Kosovo Albanian political prisoners who had been held for the last three years in Serbian prisons. SRSG Michael Steiner, who went to Dubrava Prison in western Kosovo to greet the prisoners as they were released from the…

UNMIK/PR/4 PRISTINA - Today Mr. Sergio Vieira de Mello, the Special Representative of the Secretary-General, swore in a panel of seven legal experts to advise him on the appointment of new judges for Kosovo. Five members of the panel were selected from a list of jurists compiled by the OSCE and the…

UNMIK/PR/91 PRISTINA – Bernard Kouchner, Special Representative of the Secretary-General, has signed a regulation prohibiting the establishment and operation of casinos in Kosovo. The regulation, which went into force 16 November, will allow enforcement authorities to close casinos and to seize…