News (Consolidated) - UNSOM

UNMIK/PR/562 PRISTINA---SRSG Hans Haekkerup told the member of the Interim Administrative Council today that the Joint Working Group on the Legal Framework was still working on the final draft and its translations into the three languages. He assured IAC that this work should finish in a week or two…

UNMIK/PR/561 PRISTINA---The Chairman of the Joint Working Group on the Legal Framework, Mr. Johan Van Lamoen, issued the following statement today: “Mr. Aleksander Simic has been appointed by the Special Representative of the Secretary-General in Kosovo to the Joint Working Group on the Legal…

UNMIK/PR/559 PRISTINA--- The Kosovo Transitional Council was informed today that a representative of the Kosovo Serbs, Alexandar Simic, had joined the Joint Working Group (JWG) on the Legal Framework for Provisional Self government. Briefing the KTC, JWG chairman Johan Van Lamoen, said that Mr…

UNMIK/PR/558 PRISTINA---Interim Administrative Council members heard a lengthy report today from Johan Van Lamoen, Chairman of the Joint Working Group on the Legal Framework for Provisional Self-Government, and later joined the 25th session of the Group, which plans to produce a draft document by…

UNMIK/PR/556 PRISTINA---The SRSG discussed today the work on the Legal Framework as well as a variety of other issues related to the implementation of UN Security Council Resolution 1244 with FRY President Kostunica and Foreign Minister Svilanovic, as well as with the ambassadors of the EU member…

UNMIK/PR/555 PRISTINA---On 29 March, the financing agreement for Municipal Local Investment Fund II (MLIF II) was signed between the European Agency for Reconstruction (EAR) and the Department of Local Administration (DLA) on UNMIK. The financing agreement provides for an EAR contribution of 2.6…

UNMIK/PR/554 PRISTINA---UNMIK authorities have categorically denied reports printed in newspapers in Kosovo on Tuesday that a case of mad cow disease (BSE) had been found in Klina. An investigation by the Division of Animal Production and Health (DAPH) of the Department of Agriculture, Forestry and…

UNMIK/PR/553 PRISTINA---NATO Secretary-General Lord Robertson and members of the North Atlantic Council today delivered a stern warning against any further activities by Albanian extremists in Kosovo, FYROM and the Presevo Valley in Serbia. Lord Robertson and representatives of the 19 countries on…

UNMIK/PR/552 PRISTINA --- Johan Van Lamoen, Chairman of the Joint Working Group on the Legal Framework, issued the following statement today: The Joint Working Group on the Legal Framework, which has been meeting regularly since 6 March, has made significant progress during the past few weeks. In…

UNMIK/PR/120 PRISTINA – A multi-ethnic passenger train began running this week in a move towards establishing normal transport for all residents of Kosovo. The train runs twice a day between Kosovo Polje and Zvecan with stops at Obolic, Priluzje, Vucitrn and Mitrovica. Security on the trains and at…

UNMIK/PR/461 On this New Year, the real beginning of the new millennium, Kosovo stands at a crossroads. We have been through an incredible year together, full of progress and tension. Thanks to your own efforts and the decisive support of UNMIK and KFOR, many thousands of people who spent last New…

UNMIK/PR/460 War invalids and the next-of-kin of those who died as a result of armed conflict in Kosovo will get financial payments, free access to public health care and rehabilitations centers and exemption from taxes under a new regulation signed by SRSG Bernard Kouchner (No.2000/66). The…