Press Releases

UNMIK/PR/789 Pristina – Following his visit to the site of yesterday’s tragic bus accident SRSG Michael Steiner today also visited the two control-points between Kosovo and Montenegro at the Kulina Pass and met with officials at both sites. Today’s visit followed his meeting with Montenegrin…

UNMIK/PR/788 Pristina – SRSG Michael Steiner today visited the site of the tragic bus accident in the mountains above Pejë/Pec. He met with the Station Commander and the Deputy Chief Operations of Pejë/Pec Police Station who gave him reports on what had happened and how the incident was being…

UNMIK/PR/786 PRISTINA – SRSG Michael Steiner today visited the southern Serbian village of Tupale to update himself on election issues and to meet local residents and politicians. In Tupale he met with the local community council president and discussed the upcoming municipal elections in Kosovo and…

UNMIK/PR/785 Pristina – It was with great sadness that SRSG Michael Steiner learned early this morning of the tragic bus accident on the Kulina Pass road between Kosovo and Montenegro. “This is a very sad and tragic moment for the families of the victims and for all of Kosovo,” said SRSG Michael…

UNMIK/PR/784 Today the Board of Directors of the Kosovo Trust Agency (KTA) held its first and inaugural meeting. The Board is the supreme body of the KTA. With this meeting the KTA has now become operational. The KTA is in charge of administering all socially-owned and publicly-owned enterprises in…

UNMIK/PR/783 PRISTINA – Immediately following the second meeting of the Energy Committee, SRSG Michael Steiner announced the results from the preliminary police investigation and damage assessment into Friday’s lightning strike on Kosovo’s B power plant. “I told you on Sunday I would come back to…

UNMIK/PR/782 PRISTINA--SRSG Michael Steiner said today that he fully supports the Provisional Government’s draft law on higher education, presented to the Assembly at its request. He said the Government had produced a ‘workable compromise’ and that during his talks with political leaders, they also…

UNMIK/PR/781 PRISTINA - SRSG Michael Steiner announced today that 10 investigators from Italy’s Guardia di Finanza will join UNMIK in the fight against financial crime and corruption in Kosovo. During his meeting today with the Undersecretary for Foreign Affairs of Italy, Senator Roberto Antonione…

UNMIK/PR/779 PRISTINA – SRSG Michael Steiner today held the first meeting of the Energy Committee, a committee created to solve the problems stemming from Friday evening’s lightening strike to the Kosovo B power plant in Obiliq. The Energy Committee met for approximately one hour and its members…

UNMIK/PR/780 PRISTINA – SRSG Michael Steiner today handed over the first UNMIK driving licenses to six Kosovans at a ceremony held at the Ministry of Public Services. The UNMIK driving licenses replace the old FRY driving licenses, held by many people in Kosovo. The Ministry of Public Services (MPS)…