Press Releases

UNMIK/PR/1143 PRISTINA – SRSG Harri Holkeri, CINCSOUTH Admiral Gregory Johnson, the Quint representatives, President Ibrahim Rugova, Prime Minister Bajram Rexhepi, Assembly President Nexhat Daci, AAK leader Ramush Haradinaj and COMKFOR Lt. General Holger Kammerhoff issued the following statement…

UNMIK/PR/1140 PRISTINA – SRSG Harri Holkeri issued the following the statement today: “This is a dark day for Kosovo. “Incidents of recent days, the drownings last night and the violent deaths today are profoundly shocking and disturbing. “They must all be investigated fully and rapidly. “But there…

UNMIK/PR/1141 PRISTINA - The last 48 hours have been terrible and shocking for the people of Kosovo. We have the fullest sympathy with the families of those who have died or the injured. But the violence must stop and it must stop immediately. There is no excuse for any attacks on others or acts of…

UNMIK/PR/1139 PRISTINA – SRSG Harri Holkeri today condemned the drive by shooting incident in Caglavica last evening that resulted in serious injuries to a Kosovo Serb teenager, Jovica Ivic. Cautioning against presumptions of ethnic or other motives for the attempted murder, the SRSG said that “such…

UNMIK/PR/1137 PRISTINA – The Office on Missing Persons and Forensics (OMPF), in cooperation with the UNMIK CIVPOL Missing Persons Unit (MPU) and the Serbian authorities, has arranged for 45 bodies identified by DNA to be transferred from Serbia proper to Kosovo today. The transfer of mortal remains…

UNMIK/PR/1136 PRISTINA – PDSRSG Charles Brayshaw called on President Ibrahim Rugova this afternoon, and on behalf of SRSG Harri Holkeri, he strongly condemned the grenade attack on the President’s house early this morning, terming it “outrageous and cowardly”. The SRSG telephoned President Rugova…

UNMIK/PR/1134 PRISTINA – SRSG Harri Holkeri issued the following statement today: “I am very happy to see that the Working Group on the Missing met here today under the chairmanship of Francois Stamm from the International Committee of the Red Cross. “The issue of the missing persons is a very…

UNMIK/PR/1135 PRISTINA – Acting on the instructions from SRSG Harri Holkeri, the Chairman of the KTA Board Nikolaus Lambsdorff today ratified 12 sales contracts of socially owned enterprises (SOEs) from the second wave of tenders in the privatisation process. This brings the total number of…

UNMIK/PR/1133 PRISTINA – SRSG Harri Holkeri today met Serbian Prime Minister Vojislav Kostunica in Belgrade and briefed him about the developments in Kosovo, including the standards and the Pristina-Belgrade direct dialogue. Later Mr. Holkeri had a meeting with representatives of the Contact Group…

UNMIK/PR/1132 PRISTINA – Kosovo Police Service officers discovered an improvised explosive device (IED) outside the UNMIK headquarters perimeter, adjacent to apartment buildings occupied by Kosovo residents in the early hours of 6 March. With the assistance of KFOR, the IED was disarmed later in the…