News (Consolidated) - UNSOM

UNMIK/PR/18 PRISTINA - The Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Kosovo, Bernard Kouchner, today named nine new judges to the Pristina District and Municipal courts. Today’s appointments bring to 28 the number of justice officials in the new, independent and multi-ethnic judiciary…

UNMIK/PR/19 - Limited Programming to Begin Today Under OSCE Supervision

UNMIK/PR/20 PRISTINA – The Special Representative of the Secretary General Bernard Kouchner today issued the first regulation on the authority of the Interim Administration in Kosovo. Regulation No. 1999/1, introduced in a press conference held at KFOR headquarters, outlines the full authority of…

UNMIK/PR/21 Pristina - On a visit to Pristina today, United States Secretary of State Madeleine Albright said she was “very encouraged by the cooperation between UNMIK and KFOR—they are working very well together”. The Secretary of State was on a one-day visit to Kosovo to review progress made in…

UNMIK/PR/81 Pristina – Bernard Kouchner, Special Representative of the Secretary General, has signed a regulation allowing for the temporary registration of all vehicles in Kosovo. All natural and legal persons in Kosovo shall be required to obtain temporary registration of vehicles in their…

UNMIK/PR/73 PRISTINA--UNMIK and KFOR can neither support nor condone the formation of a Serbian Protection Corps as announced by representatives of the Serb community in Kosovo yesterday in Gracanica. While we understand fully the fears of the Serbs in terms of security, particularly in light of…

UNMIK/PR/67 PRISTINA-United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan completed a two-day visit to the United Nations Interim Administration Mission in Kosovo today, remarking on the encouraging signs of rebuilding, and re-affirming his support for a democratic and multi-ethnic Kosovo. In a press…

UNMIK/PR/68 PRISTINA – Today is a sad day for the United Nations and its mission members serving across the globe. Today we share grief for a fallen colleague -- the untimely death of Mr. Valentine Krumov, who was brutally murdered on 11 October, the same day he arrived in Pristina to join our team…

UNMIK/PR/69 PRISTINA—The Special Representative of the Secretary-General, Bernard Kouchner, today opened Pristina Airport to commercial air traffic. The first commercial airplane to arrive at Pristina airport in the early afternoon was an A320 airbus from Adria Airways from Ljubljana, Slovenia…

UNMIK/PR/70 PRISTINA – Special Representative of the Secretary General, Bernard Kouchner, today presented certificates to the first graduating class of the Kosovo Police Service School. “This is indeed a historic day for Kosovo, and for the graduates and their families. The KPS School is the first…

UNMIK/PR/71 Pristina – Bernard Kouchner, Special Representative of the Secretary General, has signed a regulation repealing discriminatory legislation affecting housing and property rights in Kosovo. Legal experts of the United Nations Interim Administration Mission in Kosovo had found the laws to…

UNMIK/PR/72 PRISTINA – Bernard Kouchner, Special Representative of the Secretary General, has signed a regulation giving the Post and Telecommunications Enterprise of Kosovo (PTK) the necessary authority for providing postal and telecommunications services in Kosovo. Under the regulation, the PTK…