Press Releases

UNMIK/PR/1315 PRISTINA – SRSG Søren Jessen-Petersen and COMKFOR Yves de Kermabon received Serbian President Boris Tadic this morning at UNMIK's Headquarters in Pristina, as he began a two-day visit to Kosovo. The SRSG…

UNMIK/PR/1314 PRISTINA – The Deputy SRSG for Pillar IV, Joachim Ruecker, has signed contracts for the sale of 12 companies from the third wave of privatisation in Kosovo. The total value of the contracts is nearly €10 million…

UNMIK/PR/1313 Pristina - SRSG Søren Jessen-Petersen this morning addressed the OSCE Permanent Countil in Vienna. This is the text of his speech. “Ladies and gentlemen, I am pleased to address the OSCE Permanent Council. May I…

UNMIK/PR/1310 PRISTINA – A conference on ‘Reorganisation of the Kosovo Justice System’ was inaugurated this morning at the Grand Hotel in Pristina with keynote speeches from Mr. Ibrahim Rugova, President of Kosovo, Mr. Ramush…

UNMIK/PR/1311 PRISTINA – SRSG Søren Jessen-Petersen today said that Kamenicë/Kamenica many ways represents the kind of society Kosovo should strive to be. He said that despite the perception of insecurity and lack of freedom…

UNMIK/PR/1309 PRISTINA – Operational control of the Prizren and Peja/Pec Detention Centres was, for the first time, handed over to Kosovo Prison Directors by PDSRSG Larry Rossin in a ceremony held at UNMIK Mission…

UNMIK/PR/1307 PRISTINA – The PDSRSG Larry Rossin signed and promulgated last Friday UNMIK Regulation No. 2005/2 on the Establishment of the Independent Commission for Mines and Minerals and Regulation No.2005/3 on Mines and…

UNMIK/PR/1308 First of all, sincere apologies from the SRSG that he was not able to attend this dialogue – he has regrettably had to change his plans at the last minute due to unforeseen surgery on a close family member. On…

UNMIK/PR/1316 Pristina - SRSG Søren Jessen-Petersen this afternoon [Kosovo time] presented the Secretary-General’s quarterly report on Kosovo to the Security Council at UN Headquarters in New York. This is the text of his…