News (Consolidated) - UNSOM

UNMIK/PR/685 PRISTINA – The Interim Administrative Council (IAC) was told today that UNMIK hoped that all Kosovo Albanian detainees being held in prisons in Serbia would be transferred to Kosovo, possibly as early as the end of March. DSRSG Jean-Christian Cady, head of Pillar I, informed IAC members…

UNMIK/PR/684 Today, 28 January, 2002, UNMIK POLICE, supported by KFOR, arrested two men suspected of having violated Section 142 of the Criminal Code on War Crimes against the civilian population. The victims in all of the incidents related to these allegations were Kosovo Albanian civilians. The…

UNMIK/PR/683 The top envoy of the European Union, Javier Solana, today told Kosovo’s elected leaders that they must move soon to choose a president and construct the institutions of provisional self-government. Mr. Solana, the EU High Representative for the Common Foreign and Security Policy, met…

UNMIK/PR/682 Acting SRSG Charles Brayshaw chaired a regular session of the Interim Administrative Council today, which will continue to meet to discuss pending regulations and other issues until the transfer of authority to the Provisional Self-Government, once formed. Mr. Brayshaw opened the…

UNMIK/PR/681 Acting SRSG Charles Brayshaw chaired the second session of the High Level Working Group, which met yesterday in Belgrade to begin its substantive work as outlined by the Common Document of 5 November, 2001. Mr. Brayshaw described the meeting as positive and constructive in terms of…

UNMIK/PR/680 PRISTINA - Acting SRSG Charles Brayshaw today has sought to correct a misquote attributed to him by media yesterday and today. In recent interviews, Mr. Brayshaw has urged all people and parties in Kosovo to work together to form a coalition in the Kosovo Assembly in order to assemble…

UNMIK/PR/677 PRISTINA - United Nations Under Secretary-General for Peacekeeping Operations, Mr. Jean-Marie Guehenno, on his third visit to Kosovo, brought a message to UNMIK as well as the people and leaders of Kosovo that the mission and Kosovo remained a high priority for the United Nations in New…

UNMIK/PR/678 PRISTINA - The following statement was issued today by acting SRSG Charles Brayshaw: The first two sessions of the Kosovo Assembly have marked the beginning of the transfer of authority from the United Nations to the Provisional Institutions of Self-Government under Security Council…

UNMIK/PR/1767 Today, Acting SRSG Farid Zarif, Deputy SRSG Robert E.Sorenson and an UNMIK delegation visited Gate 1. Mr. Zarif met with the KFOR and EULEX Police commanders at the Gate, with the protestors assembled at the Gate and with Kosovo Serb community leaders in Leposaviq/Leposavic. Mr. Zarif…

UNMIK/PR/1770 PRISTINA – During this festive season I would like to wish all the people of Kosovo peace, hope and joy. This is a special time to reflect on our blessings together with our families and friends, to remember others who may suffer deprivation, discrimination or injustice and to strive…

UNMIK/PR/1769 PRISTINA – Special Representative of the UN Secretary-General in Kosovo (SRSG) Farid Zarif today strongly condemned the shooting incidents that occurred yesterday in the northern part of Mitrovicë /Mitrovica, as a result of which one person died and two others were injured. “Any act of…

UNMIK/PR/1768 United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on the 11 th 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…