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UNMIK/PR/430 PRISTINA---The JIAS Department of Civil Security and Emergency Preparedness has invited applications from members of non-Albanian minority communities for appointment to the Kosovo Protection Corps. The eligible candidates should have a secondary school diploma, should be able to speak…

UNMIK/PR/429 PRISTINA – PDSRSG, Jock Covey, has expressed his outrage at the murder of a senior politician in central Pristina Thursday. Xhemajl Mustafa, advisor to the LDK leader Ibrahim Rugova, was shot outside his apartment. His wife, who was with him, collapsed and was taken to hospital. “This…

UNMIK/PR/428 PRISTINA – SRSG today established a Council of Ministers, as a vital player in Kosovo’s interim administration. The Council of Ministers will be comprised of the Kosovo and international co-heads of the 20 departments which make up the Joint Interim Administrative Structure (JIAS). It…

UNMIK/PR/427 UNMIK today opens a Vehicle Registration Center for the population of the Pristina region in Gracanica. This includes a Vehicle Registration Program office behind the Municipal building in Gracanica and a Vehicle Inspection garage in Lapje Selo. All residents of Kosovo in possession of…

UNMIK/PR/426 PRISTINA---SRSG Bernard Kouchner today told members of the Kosovo Transitional Council that he was absolutely outraged by the attack on the house of an official of the Government of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (FRY) in Pristina, in which oner person was killed and several injured…

UNMIK/PR/424 SRSG Bernard Kouchner released the following statement this morning, and he will hold a press briefing along with KFOR commanders Gen. Cabigiosu and Brig. Fry at 11:30 a.m. today, regarding this morning's bomb attack. "I am completely outraged by the contemptible attack which took place…

UNMIK/PR/423 SRSG Bernard Kouchner released the following statement this morning, and he will hold a press briefing along with KFOR commanders Gen. Cabigiosu and Brig. Fry at 11:30 a.m. today, regarding this morning's bomb attack. "I am completely outraged by the contemptible attack which took place…

UNMIK/PR/422 PRISTINA---Briefing IAC on his trip to New York, SRSG Bernard Kouchner today told the members that there is now “democratic competition” between Belgrade and Pristina and it was upto the leaders of Kosovo to compete in terms of public opinion. “The future is in your hands. This should…

UNMIK/PR/421 PRISTINA – The SRSG Dr Bernard Kouchner saw the swearing-in of the newly appointed municipal assembly of Leposavic and declared it would allow the municipality to “serve the interest of its citizens until such a day that democratic elections would take place with the participation of…

UNMIK/PR/420 PRISTINA – SRSG Bernard Kouchner is this morning inaugurating the Municipal Assembly in Kosovo’s northernmost municipality, Leposavic. The SRSG, with the assistance of the international municipal administrator, has held talks with the Serbian community of Leposavic. With their agreement…

UNMIK/PR/418 PRISTINA – The first President and Vice President of one of Kosovo’s newly inaugurated municipal assemblies have been elected. Elected members in Novo Brdo/Novo Berde voted in the two officials at the first sitting of the assembly. Both jobs went to PDK members which had won 50 percent…

UNMIK/PR/417 PRISTINA---UNMIK officials met today in Pristina with the Head and one expert of the FRY Presidential Office for Refugees, IDP's, and Missing Persons, accompanied by a co-Minister from the Serbian Ministry of Justice, to seek concrete steps toward resolution of issues concerning…