Press Releases

UNMIK/PR/250 The co-heads of the Department of Public Services briefed the Kosovo Transitional Council today on the public sector in Kosovo, which employs some 46,700 civil servants and manages public services implemented under the Kosovo Consolidated Budget. The KTC also discussed the security…

UNMIK/PR/249 While several dozen war veterans and invalids demonstrated outside the UNMIK Government building today, SRSG Bernard Kouchner met with their representatives to plan ways to improve their access to medical care and living conditions. Hashim Thaci, member of the Interim Administrative…

UNMIK/PR/248 The Interim Administrative Council today discussed yesterday's sentencing of 143 Kosovo Albanians to prison terms amounting to a total of 1,632 years by the Nis court in Serbia. The IAC members and SRSG Bernard Kouchner agreed to visit Djakova together later today to meet families of…

UNMIK/PR/246 The Department of Health and Social Welfare has announced that the new programme to provide social assistance to the most vulnerable families in Kosovo will be launched in June. The scheme will be administered by the Centres for Social Work (CSWs) throughout Kosovo. Evelyn Arnold and…

UNMIK/PR/245 United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan sent a message yesterday to family and colleagues of slain UNMIK staff member Petar Topojlksi. The statement was read by UNMIK SRSG Bernard Kouchner following his own tribute delivered at the memorial service at UNMIK headquarters in Pristina…

UNMIK/PR/244 PRISTINA---The JIAS Administrative Department of Public Services has announced the names of candidates to appear for a test for recruitment as professional officers. These candidates will take a written test in English and Albanian/Serbian. The test will be held on 23 May at 10 a.m. at…

UNMIK/PR/243 PRISTINA---SRSG Bernard Kouchner today expressed his outrage at and condemnation of the “shocking” murder of Petar Topoljski, an UNMIK staff member of Serbian ethnicity, and said that this was a terrible blow to the family and friends of Mr. Topoljski as well as all the UNMIK staff…

UNMIK/PR/242 PRISTINA---UNMIK has sought to create an unbiased, independent and multi-ethnic judicial system. This has been a challenging task. It was faced with a judiciary that was 10 years out of practice because it had been prevented from practising and which needed to be rebuilt with new ideas…

UNMIK/PR/241 SRSG Bernard Kouchner issued the following statement this evening: "This evening I received the shocking and appalling news that one of our UNMIK staff members, a young man of Serbian ethnicity, has been murdered. "Petar Topoljski was 25 years old. He worked for the UNMIK Pristina…