Press Releases

UNMIK/PR/176 Today Professor Michael Daxner takes up his duties as the International Administrator for the Pristina University system, consisting of seven campuses and some 1,500 faculty and administrators. The idea of an international administrator to help strengthen the university system structure…

UNMIK/PR/175 Pristina - On 27 February, more than 50 recruits took part in a graduation ceremony marking their successful completion of a rigorous, two-week training program required to become a customs officer for UNMIK. The graduates bring the total number of professionals in the Customs Service…

UNMIK/PR/174 PRISTINA--The Kosovo Transitional Council today established its Secretariat, a rotating group of five KTC members which will prepare the work of the advisory body and coordinate its specialized working groups. The Secretariat will consist of one representative of a political party in…

UNMIK/PR/173 PRISTINA--The Interim Administrative Council today named co-heads for the departments of Culture, Youth, Sport and Democratic Governance & Civil Society Support. The IAC also divided the former department of Youth and Sport into two new entities. The IAC appointed Ms. Vjosa Dobruna, a…

UNMIK/PR/172 PRISTINA--Firefighters have brought under control a blaze which consumed the Boro and Ramiz Sports center in central Pristina overnight. By noon today, some 75 firefighters from seven international units, including 35 Kosovars, had directed the flames vertically, preventing its…

UNMIK/PR/170 PRISTINA-The Interim Administrative Council today agreed to create a professional civil service in Kosovo which will remain when the administration is handed over to the people and representatives of Kosovo and after the international administrators have left. The IAC agreed to have an…

UNMIK/PR/169 Oliver Ivanovic: It was a hard discussion, more than one hour and now I can say we are exactly at the beginning of some kind of negotiations. We are trying to improve the situation and make the tensions lower and lower. And maybe in the future we can discuss a multi-ethnic city, a multi…

UNMIK/PR/168 PRISTINA--The Kosovo Transitional Council today urged the international community, and the United Nations Security Council in particular, to put maximum pressure on Belgrade authorities to release all detainees from Kosovo held unlawfully in Yugoslav prisons and to cooperate with…

UNMIK/PR/201 Pristina – On Saturday, March 25th, the UNMIK Department of Education & Science will host a UNICEF-sponsored ‘Special Education’ Workshop for local and international educators at the Faculty of Philology, University of Pristina campus, in Pristina. The workshop will focus on special…

UNMIK/PR/167 PRISTINA--On the occasion of the start of the first training course for the Kosovo Protection Corps, SRSG Bernard Kouchner reminded the KPC leaders of their responsibilities in building a new Kosovo society. The 45 men and one woman were embarking on a course which would elaborate on…