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SRSG Holkeri Visits Sites Damaged By Recent Rioting

UNMIK/PR/1144 PRISTINA – SRSG Harri Holkeri today visited homes and religious buildings attacked during the recent rioting in Kosovo. Mr. Holkeri travelled to Lipljan, where he met with Deputy Mayor Borivoje Vignjevic and saw…
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SRSG Harri Holkeri’s Statement After Today’s Incidents

UNMIK/PR/1140 PRISTINA – SRSG Harri Holkeri issued the following the statement today: “This is a dark day for Kosovo. “Incidents of recent days, the drownings last night and the violent deaths today are profoundly shocking…
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SRSG Harri Holkeri Condemns the Shooting in Caglavica

UNMIK/PR/1139 PRISTINA – SRSG Harri Holkeri today condemned the drive by shooting incident in Caglavica last evening that resulted in serious injuries to a Kosovo Serb teenager, Jovica Ivic. Cautioning against presumptions of…
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More Mortal Remains Transferred to Kosovo

UNMIK/PR/1137 PRISTINA – The Office on Missing Persons and Forensics (OMPF), in cooperation with the UNMIK CIVPOL Missing Persons Unit (MPU) and the Serbian authorities, has arranged for 45 bodies identified by DNA to be…
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SRSG Harri Holkeri Welcomes Working Group on Missing

UNMIK/PR/1134 PRISTINA – SRSG Harri Holkeri issued the following statement today: “I am very happy to see that the Working Group on the Missing met here today under the chairmanship of Francois Stamm from the International…
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SRSG Harri Holkeri condemns bomb threat

UNMIK/PR/1132 PRISTINA – Kosovo Police Service officers discovered an improvised explosive device (IED) outside the UNMIK headquarters perimeter, adjacent to apartment buildings occupied by Kosovo residents in the early hours…
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SRSG Harri Holkeri Leads Multi-ethnic Delegation to Skopje

UNMIK/PR/1131 PRISTINA – SRSG Harri Holkeri today led a multi-ethnic delegation from Kosovo which attended the funeral of the President of the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, Boris Trajkovski in Skopje today. The…
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17th Economic and Fiscal Council Meeting Held in Pristina

UNMIK/PR/1130 PRISTINA - Today the 17th Economic and Fiscal Council meeting was held in Pristina. The meeting focused on urgent needs to be funded from the 2003 budget surplus. The meeting was productive and dealt with a…
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SRSG Harri Holkeri’s Decisions on KTA Matters

UNMIK/PR/1129 PRISTINA – After having consulted the Chairman of the Kosovo Trust Agency (KTA) Board Nikolaus Graf Lambsdorff, SRSG Harri Holkeri has come to the conclusion that the KTA Board is currently not discharging its…
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UNMIK is Working to Resolve the Issue of Old Serbian Warrants

UNMIK/PR/1127 PRISTINA – SRSG Harri Holkeri has expressed concern over the brief detention of the Kosovo Protection Corps Commander General Agim Ceku at Budapest airport on 29 February 2004 allegedly on the basis of a Serbian…
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