News (Consolidated) - UNSOM

UNMIK/PR/1291 PRISTINA – SRSG Søren Jessen-Petersen has promulgated the law on the census, opening the way for preparations to begin on the organisation of this important process for Kosovo’s political and economic development. The Law on the Kosovo Population and Housing Census states that the…

UNMIK/PR/1292 PRISTINA – SRSG Søren Jessen-Petersen today met with Prime Minister Ramush Haradinaj to discuss further transfer in the field of economy. The SRSG agreed to provide soon a proposal with a detailed outline of areas where UNMIK will hand over more competences to the PISG. At the press…

UNMIK/PR/1293 PRISTINA – As many people in Kosovo prepare to celebrate Christmas, one of the major Christian holidays, I am pleased to extend my own and UNMIK's best season's greetings. May peace, happiness and hope prevail in all our hearts during this very special period, as well as throughout…

UNMIK/PR/1294 It is my pleasure tonight to congratulate you on the New Year. I hope that this New Year finds all of you well, in good health and in good spirits. I have only spent part of 2004 with you, after coming to Kosovo in August. But I want to thank all the people of Kosovo that I have met…

UNMIK/PR/300 PRISTINA—Oliver Ivanovic, leader of the Mitrovica Serb National Council, has taken part in the international group which is working to get Serbs back to Kosovo. His participation comes as the Joint Committee on Returns was welcoming the news that 29 Serbs have been able to move back to…

UNMIK/PR/261 UNMIK Dubrava Prison at Istok will receive its first sentenced prisoners tomorrow, 1 June, after partial refurbishment. Dubrava will receive prisoners from all over Kosovo, and all persons sentenced to more than three months imprisonment will serve their time there. The prison will have…

UNMIK/PR/299 PRISTINA— The Department for Democratic Governance and Civil Society has been given its legal basis with the signature of the Special Representative of the Secretary General, Dr Bernard Kouchner. It brings to 14 the number of Joint Interim Administration departments which have been…

UNMIK/PR/298 SRSG Bernard Kouchner on Friday re-opened the Germia swimming pool, which is now available for public use on a daily basis from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. The swimming pool in Germia Park had been closed for rehabilitation for the past year. Some 350,000 DM was raised as a United Nations Quick…

UNMIK/PR/297 The Kosovo Transitional Council devoted today's meeting to a special session on communities in Kosovo, and most of today's discussion centered on inter-ethnic relations. SRSG Bernard Kouchner told the KTC that with only one year since the end of the war, getting the various communities…

UNMIK/PR/296 PRISTINA--NATO Secretary-General George Robertson, leading a North Atlantic Council delegation here for his fifth visit to Kosovo in a year, delivered strong messages to both Albanian and Serb leaders that they must do more to end the cycle of bloodshed in Kosovo and prepare it for a…

UNMIK/PR/294 PRISTINA—SRSG Bernard Kouchner has signed a regulation establishing the administrative Department of Sports, which will be responsible for the overall management of all matters relating to sports in Kosovo. The department, co-headed by Jean-Selim Kanaan and Zemun Pajaziti, will produce…

UNMIK/PR/292 Bernard Kouchner, Special Representative of the Secretary General, issued the following statement today, following a drive-by shooting late this morning of a Serbian cleric accompanied by two relatives and a child (who was not injured) near Klokot village in the municipality of Vitina…