Kosovo Transitional Council (KTC) condemns attack on Serb family
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…
SRSG Visits Newly Centrally Heated School
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…
Dutch Government Gives UNMIK $15 Million
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…
UNMIK Starts Temporary Vehicle Registration
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…
Kouchner welcomes establishment of Kosovo Protection Corps
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…
Commission on Missing and Detainees meets
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…
Kouchner signs regulation on Kosovo Protection Corps
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…
SRSG Kouchner Appoints Highest Court
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…
SRSG Kouchner Meets in Moscow with Ivanov
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…
Kouchner signs three new regulations to promote the establishment of an independent, professional, impartial and multi-ethnic judiciary in Kosovo
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…
Kosovo gets Power Plan for Winter
UNMIK/PR/46 * note correction to para 5. PRISTINA—Kosovo should have enough power to supply electricity and heating through the winter. A strategy aimed at securing a reliable power supply was adopted this week by the…
UNMIK Customs Service Installed on Albanian Border
UNMIK/PR/47 PRISTINA—The UNMIK Customs Service began operations on the border with Albania today, collecting duties on goods imported into Kosovo through the Vermice/Vrbnica border crossing point. This is the second border…