Press Releases

UNMIK/PR/602 On June 13, the Housing and Property Directorate (HPD) executed its first two cases of evictions in Kosovo. HPD staff carried out both evictions in the Obilic/Obiliq Municipality with the assistance of UNMIK…

UNMIK/PR/601 PRISTINA – UNHCR Special Envoy Eric Morris today briefed the Kosovo Transitional Council about the assistance being provided to the refugees from FYROM and said that the agency had made contingency plans should…

UNMIK/PR/599 Pristina – The JIAS Post and Telecommunications Department has announced that all persons holding licenses to use radio-frequencies and whose licenses have now expired need to apply for the renewal of their…

UNMIK/PR/597 Representatives of Kosovo women’s NGOs and civil society met last night with the President of the UN Security Council, Ambassador Anwarul Chowdhury of Bangladesh, along with the ambassadors of Colombia, Jamaica…

UNMIK/PR/598 Pristina – The United Nations World Food Programme is tapping contingency stockpiles and mobilising extra staff to assist a fresh wave of ethnic Albanian refugees fleeing into Kosovo from the conflict in the…

UNMIK/PR/596 NEW YORK - All 15 members of the Security Council will travel to Kosovo and Belgrade from June 15-18 to see first-hand the political and security challenges faced by the United Nations in the province, as well as…

UNMIK/PR/596 PRISTINA -- The Security Council - on the first-ever mission of all 15 members - completed a two-day visit to Kosovo with an appeal to both Kosovo Albanian and Kosovo Serb leaders to shun extremism and commit all…

UNMIK/PR/593 DSRSG Daan Everts and OSCE Director of Elections Peter Urben made presentations on the upcoming elections in today's session of the Interim Administrative Council. Mr. Everts reiterated the importance of the…

UNMIK/PR/592 PRISTINA - Following a recent review of the activities and functions of judicial support staff throughout Kosovo, the Department of Justice has announced an increase in the salary of some support staff working in…

UNMIK/PR/588 PRISTINA – The UNMIK NGO Liaison and Registration Unit has issued notices to 272 non-governmental organizations in Kosovo which enjoyed Public Benefit Status in year 2000 for failing to submit an annual report…