16 Aug 2017 - SRSG Tanin Calls for Seriousness and Responsibility during Security Council Session on Kosovo: “Pursuing Fair, Difficult Compromises Demands Strong Leadership”
16 August, 2017 – New York: The Special Representative of the UN Secretary-General in Kosovo and Head of UNMIK, Zahir...
30 Jun 2017 - Geneva - 30 June, 2017: On 29 and 30 June 2017, members of the Working Group on Persons Unaccounted for in Relation to the Events in Kosovo, representatives of UNMIK, the ICRC, and the UN Working Group on Missing Persons and Enforced Disappearances met in Geneva to identify...
29 Mar 2017 - Special Representative of the UN Secretary-General, Zahir Tanin, has closely followed today’s developments in Kosovo with concern, in particular reports that freedom of movement and association were prevented in some places.
He reminds all of the fundamental rights to assemble...
15 March 2017, Pristina – The Special Representative of the Secretary-General and Head of UNMIK, Zahir Tanin, called for concerted action to ensure the active participation of women in peace and conflict resolution, during the fifth United Nations...
06 Jan 2022 - 6 january 2022
The multi-stakeholder Security and Gender Group (SGG) strongly condemns the killing of L.Q at the hands of her husband in Laushe, municipality of Skenderaj/Srbica, on January 5th, 2022.
The Security and Gender Group (SGG) calls upon relevant institutions to...
12 Apr 2021 - UNMIK is hosting a Digital Trustbuilding Weekfrom 12 to 16April 2021 to support the Kosovo Trustbuilding Platform, with events ranging from discussions...
08 Dec 2019 - The Special Representative of the Secretary-General and Head of UNMIK, Zahir Tanin, expresses serious concern at attempts to distort painful historical events. He also emphasises in the strongest terms the imperative need for an independent judiciary free...
28 May 2019 - --
Update at 14:30 local time: One UNMIK staff member, a Russian national, has been released.
--
May 28, 2019 - UNMIK is following with great concern the developments in northern Kosovo today, including the detention of two UN staff members during the course of their duties by...
30 Aug 2017 -
On the International Day of the Victims of Enforced Disappearances, the Special Representative of the Secretary-General (SRSG) and Head of UNMIK, Zahir Tanin, stated that “our thoughts are with the families and friends of persons still missing in Kosovo. The families have a...
27 Feb 2017 - The Special Representative of the UN Secretary-General (SRSG) in Kosovo, Zahir Tanin, highlighted to Security Council members today that resumption of top-level dialogue between Belgrade and Pristina was an “essential step” in renewed efforts to rebuild trust and...
UN
United Nations Peacekeeping
Download the archive of Press Briefing notes from 2000 until 2008.
15 March 2017, Pristina – The Special Representative of the Secretary-General and Head of UNMIK, Zahir Tanin, called for concerted action to ensure the active participation of women in peace and conflict resolution, during the fifth United Nations...