Press Releases

UNMIK/PR/712 Pristina – SRSG Michael Steiner spent the Easter weekend visiting Kosovo’s various regions in an effort to become better acquainted with the people, culture and issues affecting the lives of Kosovars. On Saturday…

UNMIK/PR/710 Pristina – SRSG Michael Steiner today welcomed the release of 80 Kosovo Albanian political prisoners who had been held for the last three years in Serbian prisons. SRSG Michael Steiner, who went to Dubrava Prison…

UNMIK/PR/709 SRSG Michael Steiner announced today that all Kosovo Albanians remaining in Serbian prisons who so wished have been returned to Kosovo. These were the last known Kosovo Albanians held in Serbia, since Yugoslav…

UNMIK/PR/708 Pristina - SRSG Michael Steiner has signed Regulation 2002/6 on Covert and Technical Measures of Surveillance and Investigation, which is intended to strengthen efforts to combat organized and other serious crime…

UNMIK/PR/706 Pristina--- On 25 March, UNMIK, in co-operation with UNHCR, through the Municipal Civil Registration Centres in the five regions (Gjilan/ Gnjilane, Mitrovica, Peja/ Pec, Prishtina/ Pristina and Prizren) will…

UNMIK/PR/707 PRISTINA - Upon the invitation of President Boris Trajkovski, SRSG Michael Steiner today traveled to Skopje for his first official visit to the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia since he took office in…

UNMIK/PR/704 Pristina--Kosovo Prime Minister Bajram Rexhepi today opened the first official meeting of his cabinet, laying out the priorities for the Provisional Institutions of Self-Government. PDSRSG Charles Brayshaw was…

UNMIK/PR/703 Brussels—SRSG Michael Steiner today “lobbied for Kosovo” at the European Union’s General Affairs Council. He stressed to the meeting of foreign ministers the importance of “sustainability” in assistance to Kosovo…

UNMIK/PR/702 PRISTINA--SRSG Michael Steiner today welcomed the announcement of an KFOR/UNMIK Weapons Amnesty Program which will run from 15 March through 15 April, 2002. “ Kosovo is not at war anymore. So you don’t need…

UNMIK/PR/700 SRSG Michael Steiner yesterday visited Madrid, Spain, where he urged the European Union leadership to support the recently formed provisional self-government in Kosovo. He met with Spanish Foreign Minister Josep…