Press Releases

UNMIK/PR/1787 PRISTINA - Local magazine, Kosovo 2.0, organized a launch event for their latest issue on LGBT equality and discrimination on Friday evening. In response, a group of protesters gathered in front of Pristina's Youth and Sports Center and used violence in preventing people from attending…

UNMIK/PR/1786 PRISTINA - UNMIK donated six vehicles to the Kosovo police during a handover ceremony yesterday, which was attended by the Deputy SRSG Robert Sorenson and the Kosovo police director of the Department of Support Services, Kamer Jonuzaj. "UNMIK is very pleased to be able to donate…

UNMIK/PR/1785 PRISTINA - The SRSG Farid Zarif strongly condemned the series of incidents that occurred in northern Mitrovica in the last few days, particularly the shooting on Friday evening wounding a Kosovo Serb in the northern part of Mitrovica. "These reprehensible acts of violence and…

UNMIK/PR/1784 PRISTINA – Special Representative of the Secretary-General in Kosovo Farid Zarif issued the following message on the occasion of the Kurban Bajram: “On behalf of all of us at UNMIK, I would like to congratulate all of Kosovo’s Muslims on the occasion of Kurban Bajram. This day marks…

UNMIK/PR/1783 The Special Representative of the Secretary-General Farid Zarif has expressed his condolences to the family of the former Principal Deputy of the Secretary-General Lawrence G. Rossin who served in UNMIK from October 2004 to February 2006 and from January 2008 to June 2008. After he…

UNMIK/PR/1782 PRISTINA – UNMIK Officer-in-Charge, Deputy Special Representative of the Secretary-General Robert Sorenson, strongly condemns the shooting incident this morning near Zubin Potok in which EULEX and Kosovo Police vehicles were fired upon and a Kosovo Police officer was injured. "This act…

UNMIK/PR/1775 PRISTINA - SRSG Farid Zarif strongly condemns the incidents and provocative acts that occurred today in Kosovo, particularly the attack against a number of buses carrying passengers, mostly children of Serbian nationality. The SRSG calls on competent authorities to conduct a complete…

UNMIK/PR/1774 PRISTINA – In response to the incident early this morning at the KFOR compound at Gate 31, near Brnjak, Zubin Potok, SRSG Farid Zarif stated that: “Any use or threat of violence against international peacekeepers is unacceptable, and to be condemned in the strongest terms. I call upon…

UNMIK/PR/1773 PRISTINA – This morning KFOR conducted an operation to remove the roadblocks in the vicinity of Rudare north of Mitrovicë/Mitrovica, intended to improve the freedom of movement of KFOR troops in the area. "UNMIK is concerned by reports of a number of injuries to civilians and KFOR…

UNMIK/PR/1771 PRISTINA – Special Representative of the UN Secretary-General in Kosovo (SRSG) Farid Zarif strongly condemned the bomb attack on Sunday morning at the Three Towers complex in northern Mitrovica. Mr. Selver Haradinaj, a 38 year-old husband and father of four children, was killed in the…