News (Consolidated) - UNSOM

UNMIK/PR/339 SRSG Bernard Kouchner issued the following statement today: Under UNSCR 1244, UNMIK bears the sole responsibility for interim administration in Kosovo. In order to administer any elections within Kosovo, UNMIK must ensure that fundamental international standards are met. There is only…

UNMIK/PR/338 PRISTINA—The Kosovo Transitional Council was briefed today on the SRSG Bernard Kouchner’s policy statement on the FRY elections and the escape of detainees from the Mitrovica detention centre on 2 September. Several Albanian members said that the Yugoslav government should be told that…

UNMIK/PR/337 The Interim Administrative Council today endorsed a draft regulation establishing the Department of Trade and Industry. They were briefed by Mr. Pajazit Nushi of the Council for Human Rights and Freedoms on preparations for the 9 September "Day Against Violence," which will be organized…

UNMIK/PR/336 PRISTINA—The OSCE-run Kosovo Judicial Institute (KJI), in cooperation with the JIAS Department of Judicial Affairs, is hosting an important two-day seminar focussing on international humanitarian law. Legal experts from the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY…

UNMIK/PR/335 SRSG Bernard Kouchner reacted with outrage to last night's escape of 13 detainees from the Mitrovica Detention Center and vowed to bring to justice both the fugitives and anyone found to have been involved in their flight. "UNMIK is taking its responsibility very seriously in this…

UNMIK/PR/333 ISTOG/ISTOK-Continuing his outreach campaign around the Kosovo countryside, Bernard Kouchner, the Special Representative of the Secretary-General, told a crowd of some 1,000 residents in Istog/Istok that the Kosovo-wide municipal elections scheduled for 28 October was the 'most…

UNMIK/PR/332 The Interim Administrative Council today agreed to support events around Kosovo which are being planned as part of the "Day Against Violence," proposed by local leaders as a follow up to the Airlie House meeting last month in Washington. The IAC also agreed to visit to Peja/Pec on…

UNMIK/PR/330 PRISTINA— The SRSG Bernard Kouchner and German Foreign Minister, Joschka Fischer, have called for action from Kosovo’s Albanian politicians to end violence against the province’s Serbian communities. “We want real involvement because we have had condemnation several times before,” said…

UNMIK/PR/328 PRISTINA— UNMIK Police are questioning a Kosovo Albanian man whose car hit a group of Serbian children in Skulanovo village near Lipjan, Sunday afternoon. Despite early reports which said that four of the children had died, only one of the group of youngsters was killed. Three others…

UNMIK/PR/325 PRISTINA—SRSG Bernard Kouchner has signed Regulation No. 2000/49 establishing the Administrative Department of Public Utilities. The department shall be responsible for the management and regulation of all issues relating to public utilities in Kosovo. These include natural gas supply…

UNMIK/PR/324 PRISTINA--SRSG Bernard Kouchner has signed a regulation establishing the administrative Department of Youth. The department will be responsible for the overall management of all matters concerning youth in Kosovo. With more than half of the population in Kosovo below the age of 25…

UNMIK/PR/323 The UNMIK Victim Recovery and Identification Commission, along with the OSCE, has been continuing efforts to identify the remains of 176 bodies exhumed by forensics experts from Dragodan cemetery this summer. The exhumations, which were completed in late July, were conducted by a team…