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About 120 Kosovo leaders, representing a wide range of civic and professional sectors came together under United Nations auspices to discuss avenues of cooperation and joint work to build greater trust between Kosovo’s diverse communities, and set forth a platform for future action in multiple…

New York – Wider regional engagement and a renewed EU focus on Belgrade and Pristina represents a unique opportunity to move past a stalemate in relations, the head of the United Nations Interim Administration Mission in Kosovo told the Security Council today. The Special Representative of the UN…

SRSG Zahir Tanin welcomed the Head of Liaison Office of Greece, Ambassador Chryssoula Aliferi, at UNMIK Headquarters on 21 May 2018. Ambassador Aliferi and the SRSG discussed latest developments in Kosovo and the region, including relations between Belgrade and Pristina and the EU-facilitated…

Global examples of how to build trust, including from the Middle East and South America, were discussed in context of furthering Kosovo’s own pathway to the future during the United Nations Kosovo Trust-Building Forum. The three-day forum, held in Slovenian capital Ljubljana from May 6 to 8, played…

On 5 March 2018, the United Nations Mission in Kosovo (UNMIK) and UN Women organized the eighth United Nations Global Open Day on Women, Peace and Security in Kosovo, which focused on women’s political participation. Global Open Day was launched by the United Nations in 2010, with the aim of…

Mitrovica high school students became the United Nations for a day, during the first ever Mitrovica Model United Nations. The event, held on May 12, brought together 22 Kosovo-Albanian and Kosovo-Serb students from the four Northern Kosovo municipalities, including students from South Mitrovica. The…

On 6 June, the President of the Basic Court of Pristina, Judge Aferdita Bytyci, welcomed the Special Representative of the Secretary-General and Head of UNMIK, Mr. Zahir Tanin, to the court premises to kick off a networking event for 80 legal interns who had been working on an UNMIK-supported…

On 11 June, the United Nations Assistant Secretary-General for Peacekeeping Operations, Ms. Bintou Keita, and Special Representative of the Secretary-General and head of UNMIK, Mr. Zahir Tanin, met in Belgrade with Serbian President Aleksandar Vučić, First Deputy Prime Minister/Foreign Minister…

Earlier in the week, on 12 June, ASG Keita and SRSG Tanin met in Pristina with Kosovo Prime Minister Ramush Haradinaj and the First Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs Behgjet Isa Pacolli. The Pristina leadership reiterated their commitment to the dialogue process with Belgrade and…

On 14 June, the United Nations Assistant Secretary-General for Peacekeeping Operations, Ms. Bintou Keita, and Special Representative of the Secretary-General and head of UNMIK, Mr. Zahir Tanin, met Albanian Prime Minister Edi Rama in Tirana. ASG Keita and SRSG Tanin expressed appreciation for the…

Today, we mark the tenth anniversary of the United Nations Security Council landmark resolution 1820, which identified conflict-related sexual violence as an impediment to international peace and security. As we commemorate this day, we recall the important achievements that have been made in Kosovo…

Eight months of Kosovo youth learning about various rights, such as the right to education and government responsibilities to its citizens, were brought to a close by Play International. The Human Rights Clubs, supported by the UNMIK's Human Rights Office, trained youth from different backgrounds…