News (Consolidated) - UNSOM

UNMIK/PR/1240 PRISTINA – A technical memorandum of understanding has been signed today by the Serbian Commissariat for Refugees and OSCE, as UNMIK’s Pillar III, on the opening of polling centres in Serbia proper for the 23 October Kosovo Assembly election. This is another step forward in ensuring…

UNMIK/PR/1239 PRISTINA - SRSG Søren Jessen-Petersen and COMKFOR General Yves de Kermabon have welcomed the move to establish Local Crime Prevention Councils in all municipalities across Kosovo. The Local Crime Prevention Councils will work as consultative bodies, bringing together representatives of…

UNMIK/PR/1238 PRISTINA – Today SRSG Søren Jessen-Petersen administered the Oath of Office to 169 lay judges who will be assigned to various district and municipal courts in Kosovo. The swearing-in ceremony, held in the UNMIK HQ in Pristina this morning, was attended among others by the DSRSG/Pillar…

UNMIK/PR/1237 “I welcome the fact that Serbian President Boris Tadic has encouraged Kosovo Serbs to participate in the 23 October elections to the Kosovo Assembly. “I appeal to the Kosovo Serb community, together with all of Kosovo’s communities, to take part in the 23 October elections. There is no…

UNMIK/PR/1236 PRISTINA - Officials of the Financial Investigation Unit (FIU) arrested in conjunction with the UNMIK Department of Justice on Monday two senior officials of Pristina Airport. The Chief of the Cargo Handling Section and the Chief of the Cargo Lost and Found Deposit are suspected to…

UNMIK/PR/1235 PRISTINA - SRSG Søren Jessen-Petersen and the Ambassador of Japan to Serbia and Montenegro, H.E. Ryuichi Tanabe exchanged notes today on a training programme for Kosovars in Japan. Prime Minister Bajram Rexhepi and the Minister for Environment and Spatial Planning, Ethem Çeku also…

UNMIK/PR/1234 PRISTINA - “By working together with KFOR, UNMIK, UNHCR and local authorities, I am convinced that it should be possible to find an urgent solution so that we can stop this humanitarian tragedy,” SRSG Soren Jessen-Petersen said after visiting IDPs who are still in temporary…

UNMIK/PR/1233 PRISTINA - The Office on Missing Persons and Forensics (OMPF) announces today that an accreditation examination will take place on a range of medical specialisms for Kosovan experts in Pristina on 14th October 2004. The accreditation is for non-forensic medical experts providing their…

UNMIK/PR/1232 PRISTINA - SRSG Søren Jessen-Petersen and the Finance Minister of the Republic of Albania, Arben Malaj signed today the “Agreement on the Elimination of Double Tax”. The Kosovo Government was represented by its Finance Minister, Ali Sadriu, who initialed the document. It will regulate…

UNMIK/PR/1231 PRISTINA – Internationals squared off against locals in a friendly basketball game to celebrate International Peace Day. While the team led by UNMIK and KFOR came out on top with 50 points against the PISG’s 47, everyone was declared a winner as six white doves were released after the…

UNMIK/PR/1230 Dear citizens of Kosovo, tomorrow marks the beginning of the election campaign. This may well be the most important election in Kosovo so far. An Assembly and Government will be elected which will be governing Kosovo as we progress towards the mid-2005 Standards implementation review…

UNMIK/PR/1229 This seminar is very timely, as it addresses one of the major problems of Kosovo. I would like it to focus on the practical issues of money laundering, as Kosovo is still in the process of establishing a modern financial system and as steps for addressing this highly complex and…