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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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

UNMIK/PR/322 PRISTINA— The foundation for Kosovo’s local democracy has been set with the signing into law of the regulation on the Self Government of Municipalities. The regulation covers almost all aspects of municipal…

UNMIK/PR/321 PRISTINA—SRSG Dr. Bernard Kouchner has signed an administrative direction (No. 2000/18) regulating the activities of sports federations, associations and committees in Kosovo for the development of sports. This…