News (Consolidated) - UNSOM

UNMIK/PR/630 PRISTINA –A large number of members of the Kosovo Transitional Council, which met today after a three week recess, supported SRSG Hans Haekkerup’s initiative of holding talks with the Serbian Deputy Prime Minister Nebosja Covic, to resolve problems of Kosovo and seek his support to get…

UNMIK/PR/629 PRISTINA - SRSG Hans Haekkerup today vehemently condemned the ghastly and horrific killing of five members of a Kosovo Albanian family last night near Gllogavc/Glogovac. “The cold-blooded killing of members of the Hajra family is shocking, monstrous and incomprehensible”, Mr. Haekkerup…

UNMIK/PR/628 After a three-week summer break, the Interim Administrative Council resumed meeting today, with a briefing from SRSG Hans Haekkerup on his recent meeting with Serbian Deputy Prime Minister Nebojsa Covic and an update on preparations for the 17 November elections. KFOR also described the…

UNMIK/PR/627 PRISTINA - Starting 22 August 2001, the Department of Agriculture, Forestry and Rural Development (DAFRD) and the Department of Health and Social Welfare (DHSW) will takeover all sanitary, veterinary and phytosanitary control activities from Kosovo Control. In late 1999, Kosovo Control…

UNMIK/PR/626 PRISTINA - Today in Mitrovica, Jean-Christian Cady, the Deputy Special Representative of the Secretary-General heading Pillar One, Police and Justice, met with Serbian Deputy Prime Minister Nebojsa Covic at the Mitrovica Detention Center to discuss the Kosovo judicial system and the…

UNMIK/PR/625 PRISTINA - Today, at Gate 3, SRSG Hans Haekkerup and COMKFOR Lieutenant General Thorstein Skiaker met with Serbian Deputy Prime Minister Nebojsa Covic, where they had a constructive and lengthy conversation on a range of issues pertaining to the implementation of UNSCR 1244 (1999). SRSG…

UNMIK/PR/624 PRISTINA – UNMIK Police Missing Person’s Unit confirmed today that after searching Radonijicko Lake near Djakovica, no evidence was found indicating the presence of a refrigerated truck or bodies at the bottom of the lake. The Radonjicko Lake was investigated by a fully-equipped KFOR…

UNMIK/PR/623 PRISTINA – Dr. Pleurat Sejdiu, Co-Head of the Department of Health and Social Welfare (DHSW) and acting Chief Executive of the Pristina University Hospital today announced the complete overhaul of the PUH’s operations and management. Dr. Sejdiu was appointed temporary Chief Executive of…

UNMIK/PR/622 PRISTINA - The JIAS Department of Transport and Infrastructure (DoTI) has announced the appointments of a new Kosovo General Manager and Deputy General Manger for the railways. Mr. Gani Lahu will assume the position of General Manager on 1 September, 2001 for an initial period of one…

UNMIK/PR/621 Pristina - PDSRSG Gary Matthews strongly condemns the attack which happened this morning 2 km north of Podujevo, in which a group of Serbs travelling in a convoy to Serbia were ambushed. Three people were injured. This is the second attack in the last 24 hours. “This violent and…

UNMIK/PR/620 Pristina – This morning UNMIK re-assumed control over the socially owned Germia Building in Gracanica. The action was authorized by the SRSG pursuant to his executive power under Security Council Resolution 1244. On Friday 3 August, an Office of the FRY Committee on Kosovo was…

UNMIK/PR/619 PRISTINA - UNMIK Pristina Region is in complete agreement with the Pillar IV Department of Public Utilities that the competency to appoint the directors of public utility municipal companies, including Higjeno Teknika, does not lie entirely with the local municipal authorities. While…