News (Consolidated) - UNSOM

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 arrest warrant, which UNMIK has qualified as invalid. UNMIK intervened…

UNMIK/PR/1126 PRISTINA – SRSG Harri Holkeri has expressed his deep shock and sorrow at the death of the FYROM President Boris Trajkovski and his associates in a plane crash this morning in Bosnia and Herzegovina. Mr. Holkeri extends his deepest sympathy and condolences to the family of President…

UNMIK/PR/1123 PRISTINA – The Assembly of Kosovo has acted outside its legislative competence by approving legislation on cooperation with the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia as a Law of the Assembly. Legislation on cooperation with the International Criminal Tribunal for…

UNMIK/PR/1122 PRISTINA – SRSG Harri Holkeri returned to Pristina today from his two-day visit to Albania, where he met President Alfred Moisiu, Prime Minister Fatos Nano, foreign Minister Kastriot Islami and Minister of Economy Anastas Angjeli. It was the first visit to Albania by Mr. Holkeri. Mr…

UNMIK/PR/1121 PRISTINA - At a meeting between SRSG Harri Holkeri and the Serbian Deputy Prime Minister and President of CCK Nebojsa Covic today it was agreed that the Pristina-Belgrade direct dialogue will convene in the last week of February or the first week of March. The meeting also discussed…

UNMIK/PR/1118 PRISTINA - On behalf of the SRSG, the Acting Head of Mission and DSRSG, Pillar I, Jean-Christian Cady, today promulgated a regulation on deterrence of money laundering in Kosovo and providing additional tools to combat it. The regulation will deter money laundering by enhancing…

UNMIK/PR/1116 PRISTINA - The Director-General of UNMIK Customs is concerned and disappointed with the misleading and factually incorrect article published in Koha Ditore on 5 February 2004 regarding the excise tax on banderols. He further takes great exception to the tone and allegations in the…

UNMIK/PR/1113 “On behalf of UNMIK staff members I would like to congratulate all Kosovo’s Muslims on the occasion of Kurban Bajram. Kurban Bajram celebrates the day when God forbade his prophet Ibrahim to slay his son Isaac and by doing so, showed Mankind that human life is more valuable than…

UNMIK/PR/1112 “Kosovo is a good example of what the international community and the United Nations can achieve to stop ethnic cleansing and build policy instruments that will prevent it from occurring again. “To be able to achieve success in that domain, there is a prerequisite: a clear and common…

UNMIK/PR/1111 PRISTINA – The SRSG Harri Holkeri has written to the President of the Assembly, Nexhat Daci, to inform him that he has determined that the decision taken by the Assembly regarding the appointment of an Other Communities representative in the Presidency was without validity. In his…

UNMIK/PR/1107 PRISTINA – SRSG Harri Holkeri today visited the KPC Training Academy in Pristina. The KPC Commander Gen. Agim Çeku and the IOM project manager of KPC, Don Guthmiller, received the SRSG and showed him around the centre. The SRSG saw the technical facilities, such as the centre for…

UNMIK/PR/1103 PRISTINA –SRSG Harri Holkeri today met Bishop Artemije in Gracanica and held frank and friendly discussions, including on some practical problems faced by Kosovo Serbs that the latter raised. The SRSG urged Bishop Artemije to influence Kosovo Serbs to participate in the Standards…