Press Releases

UNMIK/PR/693 Good evening, I left Sarajevo five years ago. I am now excited to be back in the region – and here in Kosovo. The hard times are not yet over. But I will do my best to help. I know I have a lot to learn. I…

UNMIK/PR/691 PRISTINA – Newly appointed Special Representative of the Secretary General for Kosovo, Michael Steiner, arrived in Pristina today to officially take up his duties. After touching down at the Pristina Airport…

UNMIK/PR/691 PRISTINA—SRSG Michael Steiner today met local leaders for the first time today in individual meetings held in UNMIK headquarters. Mr. Steiner met with Rexhat Daci, President of the Kosovo Assembly; PDK leader…

UNMIK/PR/688 UNMIK and KFOR approved a proposal, presented by the commander of the KPC, Lt General Agim Ceku, that will allow for the implementation of a formal rank structure within the KPC. This initiative will greatly…

UNMIK/PR/687 PRISTINA – UNMIK and the FRY authorities today signed three protocols that would enable further progress on the issue of identification of missing persons. The protocols were signed following the meeting of the…

UNMIK/PR/686 PRISTINA – US Secretary of State Colin L. Powell has congratulated the SRSG-designate Michael Steiner for his appointment as head of UNMIK. In a letter to Mr. Steiner, Mr. Powell said, “Your broad diplomatic…

UNMIK/PR/714 PRISTINA – UNMIK will soon start issuing Travel Documents for children under 16 years of age following the signing of the Administrative Direction 2002/6 implementing UNMIK Regulation No 2000/18 on Travel…

UNMIK/PR/685 PRISTINA – The Interim Administrative Council (IAC) was told today that UNMIK hoped that all Kosovo Albanian detainees being held in prisons in Serbia would be transferred to Kosovo, possibly as early as the end…

UNMIK/PR/684 Today, 28 January, 2002, UNMIK POLICE, supported by KFOR, arrested two men suspected of having violated Section 142 of the Criminal Code on War Crimes against the civilian population. The victims in all of the…

UNMIK/PR/683 The top envoy of the European Union, Javier Solana, today told Kosovo’s elected leaders that they must move soon to choose a president and construct the institutions of provisional self-government. Mr. Solana…