News (Consolidated) - UNSOM

UNMIK/PR/618 PRISTINA – SRSG Hans Haekkerup today told the Kosovo Transitional Council that yesterday he had signed a memorandum of understanding with the International Committee for the Missing Persons (ICMP) to start the process of DNA testing. The ICMP has the technical means and the money to…

UNMIK/PR/617 PRISTINA - SRSG Hans Haekkerup, along with COMKFOR Lt. General Thorstein Shiaker, DSRSG Daan Everts and DSRSG Andy Bearpark met with US President George Bush for 40 minutes today at Camp Bondsteel, the US base in Kosovo. President Bush assured UNMIK and KFOR officials that the U.S…

UNMIK/PR/616 Contrary to reports today and last night in the Belgrade media, there are no new mass graves in Suva Reka or anywhere in Kosovo. Remarks by Ms. Monique Fienberg, head of UNMIK’s missing persons bureau, were distorted in the Belgrade media yesterday. Ms. Fienberg had been reviewing the…

UNMIK/PR/615 PRISTINA - The Pristina Municipal Assembly on June 6, 2001, passed a new regulation designating Pristina municipal bus route 4 (Sunny Hill – Germia swimming pool) as a route to be served only by the fleet of buses belonging to the municipal company “Trafiku Urban”. This regulation was…

UNMIK/PR/614 PRISTINA – The Kosovo Transitional Council was today briefed about UNMIK’s plans to pay pensions, starting in early 2002. It was also briefed about a consultation with the Bosniac and Gorani communities. The director of the Kosovo Institute for Forensic Medicine, Dr. F. Blakaj, also…

UNMIK/PR/613 Today the Interim Administrative Council received an update on the work of the Housing and Property Directorate as well as a draft of the proposed regulation “on the Registration of Contracts for the Sale of Real Property in Specific Geographic Areas of Kosovo.” The IAC members will…

UNMIK/PR/612 PRISTINA – The Germia swimming pool will be opened to public on 15 July 2001 at 10:00 hrs. The swimming pool was refurbished during the first months of this year. It has a capacity of 28 million liters, which makes it the largest swimming pool in Europe. The entrance fee to the pool is…

UNMIK/PR/611 PRISTINA – The Kosovo Transitional Council today discussed the reported refusal by Kosovo forensic experts to participate in the exhumation of bodies from the mass graves in Serbia, which the KTC had been demanding for sometime. The issue was raised by DSRSG Tom Koenigs, who chaired the…

UNMIK/PR/610 PRISTINA - The Interim Administrative Council learned of UNMIK’s broad principles for eventual pension contributions and payments, set to begin in the year 2002, as well as the plans for Post and Telecommunications Kosovo to increase the number of mobile phone subscribers to 400,000 by…

UNMIK/PR/609 PRISTINA - UNMIK has renewed licenses to sell motor vehicle insurance to the following companies: INSIG, Siguria, Kosova and Dardania—however on a temporary basis. It has also established new conditions for insurance companies. The authorizations to operate in Kosovo for INSIG, Siguria…

UNMIK/PR/607 PRISTINA – PDSRSG Gary Matthews today appealed to international donors to give financial assistance for the running of the minority bus project, which has been officially handed over to UNMIK Department of Transport and Infrastructure (DoTI) by UNHCR. The Swiss government will…

UNMIK/PR/606 The Interim Administrative Council today discussed technical amendments to the political party registration regulation of last year and were briefed on the situation of the 70,000 refugees in Kosovo from FYROM. During the discussions on the registration amendments, one Kosovo…