News (Consolidated) - UNSOM

UNMIK/PR/14 PRISTINA – The United Nations International Police are recruiting candidates for the new Kosovo Police Service. The police service will work initially under the guidance of the UNMIK International Police and will be trained in the highest standards of police work to provide safety and…

UNMIK/PR/1327 PRISTINA – SRSG Søren Jessen-Petersen today toured the Peje/Pec, Decan/Decani, Gjakove/Djakovica and Suhareke/Suva Reka municipalities where he met members of the respective Municipal Assemblies, village leaders, community representatives, student and youth leaders. The Acting Prime…

UNMIK/PR/1326 PRISTINA – SRSG Søren Jessen-Petersen today addressed the South East Europe Summit meeting held in Skopje. Commending the manner in which Kosovo, its institutions, leaders and people, are going through these considerably testing times, the SRSG said, “The situation in Kosovo has…

UNMIK/PR/1325 Pristina - SRSG Søren Jessen-Petersen this afternoon made the following statement following the resignation of Prime Minister Ramush Haradinaj: “I have taken note of Ramush Haradinaj's decision to step down with immediate effect as Prime Minister of Kosovo. I do, of course, respect his…

UNMIK/PR/1324 Today, I pay tribute to all Kosovo women, from all communities and from all walks of life, for their great contribution to the political and economic developments in Kosovo, and for their resilience and perseverance over the years – in the face of violent conflict, of adverse economic…

UNMIK/PR/1323 PRISTINA – UNMIK and the Kreditanstalt fuer Wiederaufbau (KfW) have signed today a Financing Agreement for Improvement of Water Supply and Sewage. The KfW will provide 9 million Euro for this important sector. The Minister of Environment and Spatial Planning, Bajram Kosumi, initialled…

UNMIK/PR/1322 PRISTINA - Principal Deputy SRSG Larry Rossin today praised the functioning of the municipal institutions during his two-day visit to Prizren. Addressing the Municipal Assembly, the PDSRSG said it was particularly encouraging that salaries and fixed costs accounted for an unusually low…

UNMIK/PR/1321 PRISTINA – SRSG Søren Jessen-Petersen today promulgated UNMIK Regulation 2005/13 on the Allocation of Socially-Owned Immovable Property Managed by Municipalities in Kosovo. The Regulation will enable UNMIK to grant Municipalities authorisation to make long-term allocations of municipal…

UNMIK/PR/1320 PRISTINA – SRSG Søren Jessen-Petersen this afternoon met Prime Minister Konstantinos Karamanlis of Greece who paid a one-day visit to Kosovo. The SRSG praised Greece’s consistent support of Standards in Kosovo and briefed the Prime Minister on the latest developments in Kosovo and on…

UNMIK/PR/1319 PRISTINA – SRSG Søren Jessen-Petersen this morning met Prime Minister Vlado Buchkovski of the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia who is paying a one-day visit to Kosovo. The SRSG briefed the Prime Minister and his delegation which included the Deputy Prime Minister and the Foreign…

UNMIK/PR/1317 PRISTINA – On his first visit to Belgrade, the new DSRSG Joachim Ruecker today met Deputy Prime Minister Miroljub Labus, other senior officials of the Serbian government and representatives of the international community. DSRSG Ruecker said at a press conference that he had gone to…

UNMIK/PR/1316 Pristina - SRSG Søren Jessen-Petersen this afternoon [Kosovo time] presented the Secretary-General’s quarterly report on Kosovo to the Security Council at UN Headquarters in New York. This is the text of his statement. “Mr. President, The three months since my last report to the…