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UNMIK/PR/109 PRIZREN – UNMIK’s Regional Administration has begun distributing 15,000 cubic meters of firewood and 10,000 tons of coal free of charge to schools, hospitals and needy residents in the Prizren region. The fuel, valued at 2.1 million Deutsche marks, was donated by the Japanese Government…

UNMIK/PR/107 SRSG Bernard Kouchner arrived in Skopje this morning for high-level talks with Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonian (FYROM) Government representatives on the first leg of a visit that will also take him to Albania for talks with the Government there. At the meeting with the Prime…

UNMIK/PR/106 PRISTINA--The Kosovo Transitional Council today condemned the brutal attack early Monday morning on a Serb family in which a man was shot to death and his wife and mother-in-law beaten by a crowd celebrating a Kosovar Albanian holiday. The Special Representative of the Secretary-General…

UNMIK/PR/105 PRISTINA – Hundreds of cheering students enthusiastically greeted Bernard Kouchner, the Special Representative of the Secretary-General, during his visit to the Dardania Primary School to check out the school’s new central heating. Last Saturday, Dr. Kouchner was on hand to flip the…

UNMIK/PR/104 PRISTINA – The Special Representative of the Secretary-General, Bernard Kouchner, offered his thanks to the Dutch Government for their $15 million contribution to support the Kosovo Consolidated Budget for the 1999 Fiscal Year. The money will be used by the Civil Administration to cover…

UNMIK/PR/103 PRISTINA – Today, UNMIK started the temporary registration of all motor vehicles in Kosovo. The Special Representatives of the Secretary-General, Bernard Kouchner, marked the start of the registration process by adjusting a new license plate to the first vehicle at the registration…

UNMIK/PR/48 PRISTINA: The Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Kosovo, Bernard Kouchner, issued the following statement today: “This is not an end, but a beginning Demilitarization is not necessarily accomplished by simply dismantling military structures and collecting soldiers’ arms…

UNMIK/PR/50 PRISTINA--The Commission on Prisoners and Detainees created by UNMIK Special Representative of the Secretary-General Bernard Kouchner met for the first time yesterday at UNMIK headquarters. The membership includes people nominated by members of the Kosovo Transitional Council who have…

UNMIK/PR/49 PRISTINA—In a ceremony last night at KFOR headquarters, the Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Kosovo, Bernard Kouchner, signed a regulation establishing the Kosovo Protection Corps, as a civilian emergency service agency. The SRSG appointed General Agim Ceku, former…

UNMIK/PR/43 PRISTINA— Bernard Kouchner, the Special Representative of the Secretary General and head of the UN Interim Administration Mission in Kosovo, appointed five judges to the Ad Hoc Court of Final Appeal and two prosecutors to the Ad Hoc Office of the Public Prosecutor today. The Ad Hoc Court…

UNMIK/PR/44 SRSG Bernard Kouchner was in Moscow yesterday where he met for two-and-a- half hours with Foreign Minister Ivanov of the Russian Federation. The talks, which were frank and lively, focussed on the implementation of Security Council Resolution 1244. Within that context, they discussed a…

UNMIK/PR/45 PRISTINA – Bernard Kouchner, Special Representative of the Secretary General and head of the United Nations Mission in Kosovo, has signed three new regulations to promote the establishment of an independent, professional, impartial and multi-ethnic judiciary in Kosovo. The first…