News (Consolidated) - UNSOM

UNMIK/PR/769 UNMIK Police announced today the arrests of a number of individuals on suspicion of involvement in a brutal attack on a Kosovo Albanian family in Glogovac last year. “The attack on the family Hajra resulted in the deaths of Mr. Hajra, his wife and three of his four children,” said…

UNMIK/PR/767 Pristina, 27 June 2002 Mr. Prime Minister, Mr. Piper, ladies and gentlemen: I am pleased to be here today for the launching of the first UNDP Human Development Report on Kosovo. This is indeed an important event for Kosovo and the International Community. The conclusions of this UNDP…

UNMIK/PR/766 Geneva, 27 June 2002 Mr. High Commissioner, Ladies and Gentlemen, Bosnia has been a success. In Kosovo we still have to get there. I am grateful to Ruud Lubbers, the UN High Commissioner for Refugees, for the opportunity to discuss returns in this regional format. All of us coming from…

UNMIK/PR/764 A consultative planning session attended by representatives of 12 donor countries was held in Brussels on 21 June, hosted by the UN HABITAT Brussels Office, and co-chaired by Anna Tibaijuka, Executive Director of UN-Habitat, and Tom Koenigs, UNMIK Deputy Special Representative of the…

UNMIK/PR/763 PRISTINA – The Economic and Fiscal Council (EFC), which met yesterday for the second time, discussed the issue of unregulated gambling activities in Kosovo. It took positive note of SRSG Michael Steiner’s decision to issue an administrative direction to regulate gambling activities in…

UNMIK/PR/763 SRSG Michael Steiner visited the UNMIK mortuary at Orahovac/Rahovec today as part of a tour of the greater Prizren region. There he viewed forensics work ongoing with remains found in the nearby region by a team of international pathologists, anthropologists and other experts provided…

UNMIK/PR/761 Pristina – For the second time in a week, SRSG Michael Steiner met with representatives of the families of Kosovo’s missing. Last Friday he met with Albanian representatives of families of the missing; today he met jointly with Albanian and Serb representatives of the families. “It is…

UNMIK/PR/760 Mr. Andrew Whitley, Director of the Office of Returns and Communities, will resign from UNMIK to accept an offer to serve as Director of External Affairs in UNRWA, the UN agency assisting Palestinian refugees with HQ in Gaza. He will take up his new duties with UNRWA on 1 July 2002. “I…

UNMIK/PR/759 Today two more suspects in crimes which led the arrests of four men yesterday turned themselves in to UNMIK Police. The two Kosovo Albanian males joined four other Kosovo Albanian suspects now in custody. All have been arrested on suspicion of illegal detentions and grave bodily injury…

BELGRADE - Mr. Chairman, I am very happy to be here in Belgrade and would like to congratulate you on your excellent organization and hospitality. We have recently marked the third anniversary of the arrival of UNMIK and KFOR in Kosovo. We commemorated this milestone with the swearing-in of the…

UNMIK/PR/755 Mitrovica – SRSG Michael Steiner spent the day in Mitrovica where he visited various institutions and met and talked with the city’s citizens. During his visit he also took the opportunity to highlight UNMIK’s commitment to law and order and to building Kosovo’s economy. SRSG Michael…

UNMIK/PR/755 Pristina – SRSG Michael Steiner met today with the Albanian family associations of the missing at UNMIK headquarters. After addressing the family associations to inform them of the progress made in efforts to find Kosovo’s missing, SRSG Michael Steiner turned the microphones over to the…