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UNMIK/PR/327 PRISTINA— UNMIK Police are questioning a Kosovo Albanian man whose car hit five Serbian children in Skulanovo village near Lipjan, Sunday afternoon. Four of the children died; the fifth is seriously injured and is being treated at the Russian KFOR hospital in Kosovo Polje. “This is a…

UNMIK/PR/326 PRISTINA—The Department of Youth is organizing a Youth Week from 1-7 October. The event, which from this year onwards is to be held each year, is aimed to inspire the active engagement of youth in shaping their society. This year’s theme will be Tolerance, No Violence. A range of…

UNMIK/PR/350 SRSG Bernard Kouchner, in collaboration with the departments of Education and Science and Youth, will launch tomorrow (15 September) a Kosovo-wide school competition on tolerance and reconciliation called "Living Together In Kosovo, In Europe." A ceremony involving 300 students and…

UNMIK/PR/349 PRISTINA—Talking to a crowd of more than 1,000 mainly young people in Skenderaj yesterday at his fifth Town Hall Meeting, Bernard Kouchner, Special Representative of the Secretary General said the international community needs to see tolerance and democracy in order to invest in Kosovo…

UNMIK/PR/348 PRISTINA— Regulation 2000/51 signed by SRSG Dr. Bernard Kouchner establishes the age of compulsory school attendance from six to 15 years. Under this regulation, a child reaching six years of age by the commencement of an academic year must be enrolled in a school, approved by the…

UNMIK/PR/347 PRISTINA— SRSG Dr. Bernard Kouchner has signed Regulation 2000/50 amending UNMIK Regulation 1999/27 on the Kosovo Consolidated Budget for the current financial year, ending 31 January 2000. The new regulation outlines the revised budget after a mid-term review of the revenue and…

UNMIK/PR/346 PRISTINA— SRSG Dr. Bernard Kouchner warned the members of the Kosovo Transitional Council that the conspiracy of silence surrounding the recent and earlier killings in Kosovo would undermine what the international community and the Kosovars are trying to achieve. He told the KTC members…

UNMIK/PR/345 The Kosovo Transitional Council condemns in the strongest possible terms the killing Rexhep Luci, the director of the department for Urban Development, Planning, and Reconstruction of the Pristina municipality, the murder of Shefki Popova, a Rilindja journalist, as well the…

UNMIK/PR/344 It was with deep sadness and horror that I learned of the death of Mr. Rexhep Luci, a man who devoted his life to Pristina and Kosovo. Rexhep Luci, the Director of the Department of Planning, Reconstruction and Development, was murdered Monday night in Dardania. Rexhep Luci worked for…

UNMIK/PR/343 The Interim Administrative Council today discussed the recent violence in Kosovo which occurred in the wake of the Day Against Violence on 9 September. These included the murder of Rilindija journalist Shefki Popova in Vushtri on Sunday and last night's killing of city planner Rexhep…

UNMIK/PR/342 MITROVICA - A leak in a sulphuric acid tank at the Trepca industrial facility in South Mitrovica Tuesday caused a full scale emergency alert in the area. UNMIK fire brigade units combined with KFOR units and engineers from the ITT consortium rushed to the scene to combat the leak in the…

UNMIK/PR/340 PRISTINA—A group of 35 children of Kosovo from different communities are travelling to France for medical treatment on Saturday 9 September. The trip was made possible thanks to a joint operation by the humanitarian organization “La Chaîne de l’Espoir”, the French Ministry of Defense…