News (Consolidated) - UNSOM

UNMIK/PR/714 PRISTINA – UNMIK will soon start issuing Travel Documents for children under 16 years of age following the signing of the Administrative Direction 2002/6 implementing UNMIK Regulation No 2000/18 on Travel Documents by SRSG Michael Steiner recently. The date for the acceptance of…

UNMIK/PR/713 SRSG Michael Steiner and authorities of the FRY and Serbia yesterday signed an Agreement on the Transfer of Sentenced Prisoners. The agreement brings Yugoslavia and Kosovo into conformity with the European Convention on Sentenced Prisoners. That Convention was signed by several European…

UNMIK/PR/712 Pristina – SRSG Michael Steiner spent the Easter weekend visiting Kosovo’s various regions in an effort to become better acquainted with the people, culture and issues affecting the lives of Kosovars. On Saturday, SRSG Michael Steiner went to the historic town of Prizren, considered the…

UNMIK/PR/708 Pristina - SRSG Michael Steiner has signed Regulation 2002/6 on Covert and Technical Measures of Surveillance and Investigation, which is intended to strengthen efforts to combat organized and other serious crime in Kosovo. The regulation enables law enforcement authorities to use a…

UNMIK/PR/707 PRISTINA - Upon the invitation of President Boris Trajkovski, SRSG Michael Steiner today traveled to Skopje for his first official visit to the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia since he took office in Pristina. The two discussed regional issues and methods of cooperation. Following…

UNMIK/PR/733 Pristina – Representatives from countries across South-East Europe joined Kosovo’s SRSG Michael Steiner in Pristina today to define a strategy for combating cigarette smuggling in the region. The representatives were from the governments of Serbia, Croatia, Bosnia, Bulgaria, Romania…

UNMIK/PR/729 SRSG Michael Steiner announced today that municipal elections will be held across Kosovo on 26 October, 2002. He explained that a delay in passage of the OSCE elections budget, which was approved on 19 April, caused a delay in beginning operational procedures for the elections and…

UNMIK/PR/706 Pristina--- On 25 March, UNMIK, in co-operation with UNHCR, through the Municipal Civil Registration Centres in the five regions (Gjilan/ Gnjilane, Mitrovica, Peja/ Pec, Prishtina/ Pristina and Prizren) will start the registration and re-registration of persons from fYROM with temporary…

UNMIK/PR/703 Brussels—SRSG Michael Steiner today “lobbied for Kosovo” at the European Union’s General Affairs Council. He stressed to the meeting of foreign ministers the importance of “sustainability” in assistance to Kosovo, at the same time expressing his gratitude for the generous and continuing…

UNMIK/PR/702 PRISTINA--SRSG Michael Steiner today welcomed the announcement of an KFOR/UNMIK Weapons Amnesty Program which will run from 15 March through 15 April, 2002. “ Kosovo is not at war anymore. So you don’t need weapons: they are simply dangerous,” SRSG Michael Steiner said today. “From the…

UNMIK/PR/701 SRSG Michael Steiner this evening addressed participants in the opening of an art and music exhibition in the National Theater. “Ladies and Gentlemen: There are conflicts worldwide. There are women worldwide who are dealing with conflict and the particular burden of work, responsibility…

UNMIK/PR/700 SRSG Michael Steiner yesterday visited Madrid, Spain, where he urged the European Union leadership to support the recently formed provisional self-government in Kosovo. He met with Spanish Foreign Minister Josep Piqué, who heads the European Union Council of Foreign Ministers while…