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UNMIK/PR/123 PRISTINA--At the fourth meeting of the Interim Administrative Council held today, members discussed the allocation of 19 departments to be co-administered by UNMIK and Kosovo political leaders, as well as expanding the Kosovo Transitional Council, the highest-level consultative body of…

UNMIK/PR/108 PRISTINA - On the last leg of his visit to neighbouring countries, SRSG Bernard Kouchner met yesterday afternoon in Tirana, Albania, with the President of the Republic, Rexhep Meidani, Prime Minister I. Meta and Deputy Foreign Minister B. Blushi, all of whom stressed that stability in…

UNMIK/PR/119 Pristina – UNMIK and the Kosovo Power Company (KEK) wishes to thank During the past few weeks, the KEK began delivering electricity bills for the months of September and October to commercial premises and for October to residences. Customer billing was delayed until some improvement in…

UNMIK/PR/118 Pristina – The Interim Administrative Council met on 28 December 1999 for its third meeting. It discussed the status of the draft regulation setting up the Joint Interim Administrative Structure and arrangements to organize a technical secretariat to support the work of the IAC. It also…

UNMIK/PR/117 Pristina – All funds raised from the public, including from all parallel structures, should be allotted to the Kosovo budget, where the money can be strictly accounted for. Despite various rumours and stories in the local press, no parallel money, including from the Bukoshi fund, has…

UNMIK/PR/115 PRISTINA--Three Kosovo Albanian political leaders today signed a landmark agreement by which they agreed to share the provisional management of Kosovo with the United Nations Mission in Kosovo until elections next year. The Special Representative of the Secretary-General Bernard…

UNMIK/PR/114 Prizren – Bernard Kouchner, Special Representative of the Secretary-General, visited Prizren today where he toured the newly refurbished prison and met with members of the Prizren Provisional Municipal Council. The prison currently houses 66 inmates and can hold up to 120 people. The…

UNMIK/PR/113 PRISTINA – Bernard Kouchner, Special Representative of the Secretary-General, visited Partes and Gnjilane today where he encouraged the local Serbian and Albanian population to condemn violence and focus on the future. Kouchner’s first stop was to the Serbian village of Partes where…

UNMIK/PR/112 PRISTINA--UNMIK today announced the establishment of a Supervisory Board to oversee the management of the power sector and to facilitate coordination among UNMIK, international donors, the managers of the Kosovo power company KEK and Mott MacDonald, the company overseeing utilities…

UNMIK/PR/111 PRISTINA--KEK, the Kosovo power company, has begun to issue bills for electricity supplied during the month of October for domestic customers, and September/October for industrial/commercial customers. Bills will be calculated according to consumption of energy. For those premises…

UNMIK/PR/110 Pristina—Representatives of some 12 banks interested in operating in Kosovo attended a seminar on bank licensing held on 7 December by the Banking and Payments Authority of Kosovo (BPK). At the seminar, the BPK announced an extension of the deadline for filing bank license applications…