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SRSG condemns today's incidents and provocative acts

PRISTINA - SRSG Farid Zarif strongly condemns the incidents and provocative acts that occurred today in Kosovo, particularly the attack against a number of buses carrying passengers, mostly children of Serbian nationality.

The SRSG calls on competent authorities to conduct a complete and thorough investigation into these incidents and further calls upon all parties to refrain from any action which could exacerbate the situation.

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UNMIK raises money for women’s shelter as part of World AIDS Day activities

1 December marks World AIDS Day.

Since 1981, World AIDS Day has provided an opportunity for individuals to come together to fight against the spread of HIV/AIDS, to show support for those living with HIV/AIDS, to celebrate victories in overcoming the spread of HIV/AIDS and to commemorate those who have lost their lives from HIV/AIDS.

“World AIDS Day is an opportunity to raise awareness about HIV in Kosovo and around the world,” says Sarah Haile Giorgis, UNMIK HIV Focal Point.

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OSCE Mission in Kosovo helps law enforcement agencies combat internal corruption

A graduation ceremony for 21 high-level officials from the police, customs, Police Inspectorate of Kosovo, Special Prosecutor’s office and judiciary who participated in a five-day OSCE-organized training course on combating corruption within law enforcement agencies was held on 25 November 2011 in Vushtrri/Vučitrn.

The course to effectively indentify and investigate corruption was also used as an opportunity to improve relations between the agencies and share experiences and best practices.

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Acting SRSG Farid Zarif visits Gate 1

UNMIK/PR/1767
Friday, 30 September 2011

Today, Acting SRSG Farid Zarif, Deputy SRSG Robert E.Sorenson and an UNMIK delegation visited Gate 1.

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UNMIK concerned about the ongoing situation in northern Kosovo

UNMIK/PR/1764 Tuesday, 26 July 2011

PRISTINA - Robert Sorenson, UNMIK Officer in Charge, expresses his deep concern for the ongoing situation in northern Kosovo and calls upon all parties to refrain from any action which could further exacerbate the situation.

UNMIK strongly condemns the violence and believes that dialogue based upon mutual respect is the way forward for resolving issues.

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Kosovo: Press Briefing Transcript for briefing of 15 Oct 2008

UNMIK Director / Division of Public Information Alexander Ivanko

Good morning everybody, the SRSG Ambassador Zannier was last week in New York where he had several meetings, including with the UN Secretary General. He met on two occasions with Serbian Foreign Minister Jeremic to discuss the ongoing dialogue between Pristina and Belgrade. This morning at 09:00, the SRSG met with PM Thaçi and briefed him on his meetings in New York.

Today is actually our last press conference in this compound. The SRSG will leave this HQ and move to our new HQ on

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Kosovo: Press Briefing Transcript for briefing of 08 Oct 2008

UNMIK Spokesperson Russell Geekie

Good morning ladies and gentlemen. We have no statements so we open the floor to questions.

If there are no questions then we should all go to lunch. Okay?

Kosova Sot: Russell, what is the court in the north doing right now? Is it working? Is it completely functioning?

Russell: Well, as you know, on Friday, the personnel, UNMIK personnel - two international Judges, two international prosecutors and support staff, court staff - moved into the courthouse. They are settled into their offices. They are now rolling

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Kosovo: UNMIK reopens court in north Mitrovica

UNMIK/PR/1740

PRISTINA - In the latest step to normalize rule of law in the north of Kosovo, UNMIK today reopened the courthouse in north Mitrovica.

From today, the courthouse will be staffed by UNMIK international personnel, including two judges, two prosecutors, legal officers and administrative assistants. In this initial phase of the reopening, the prosecutors and international judges will only handle urgent criminal cases, and apply UNMIK law and procedure. Civil cases will not be heard.

In the next phase, local judicial workers

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Kosovo: Press Briefing Transcript for briefing of 01 Oct 2008

UNMIK Director / Division of Public Information Alexander Ivanko

Good morning everybody, no points from UNMIK or KFOR, over to the OSCE.

Elli Flen

Good morning! The OSCE Mission has as of today a new Head of Mission: Ambassador Werner Almhofer from Austria. Ambassador Almhofer was previously the Austrian Ambassador to Bosnia and Herzegovina. He will have to go back to his duty station in Sarajevo for next week to do check out and finish his work there. By mid-October, he will fully move to Pristina. In the meantime, Deputy Head of Mission Markku

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Kosovo: Press Briefing Transcript for briefing of 24 Sep 2008

UNMIK Director / Division of Public Information Alexander Ivanko

Good morning everybody, as usual no statements from the panel, so over to your questions, if any.

RTK: Question for Elli, are there any troubles coming because Russia and Serbia are absolutely opposing the new naming of the new chief of the Mission here in Kosovo?

Elli: I hope not. Listen, the appointment of the head of Mission is done by the chairmanship, so I will have to refer to all detailed questions to the Finnish Foreign Ministry or to the the Secretariat in Vienna. For us, the Mission here in Kosovo,

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Kosovo: SRSG on UNMIK's reconfiguation

UNMIK/PR/1738

PRISTINA - Special Representative of the UN Secretary-General (SRSG), Lamberto Zannier, today held a townhall meeting with UNMIK's staff on the reconfiguration process, and explain how it will affect the Mission and its work.

"After nine years, the situation in Kosovo has changed and that means UNMIK too has to change," SRSG Zannier said.

He added that the present reconfiguration is one of a series throughout the Mission's life. Past reconfigurations have included the loss and addition of Pillars, and as competencies previously

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Kosovo: Press Briefing Transcript for briefing of 17 Sep 2008

UNMIK Director / Division of Public Information Alexander Ivanko

Good morning ladies and gentlemen no initial statements from UNMIK, so we can go straight to questions.

Kosova Sot: Alex, what is going on with reconfiguration? Do you still think that reconfiguration will be completed by the end of autumn?

Alex: We are planning to have a Town Hall meeting in the next few days, where we will explain to the staff how the downsizing will happen. We are mostly on track and we will go ahead with the 70 % downsizing of our staff, now this might take probably,

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Kosovo: Press Briefing Transcript for briefing of 10 Sep 2008

UNMIK Spokesperson Sven Lindholm

Good morning, we have no statements from the table today, so we will just go ahead with the questions.

Koha Ditore: Sven, what is going on with the reconfiguration issue at the political level? Is there anyone being appointed from the UN as to take care of UN umbrella?

Sven: Well, on a more simple level, for reconfiguration, EULEX has now been given the keys to the Annex here in HQ, the Training Section itself has moved in right now. But on a basic administrative level, we are preparing the new staffing table for the reconfigured,

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SRSG visits the Privatization Agency of Kosovo

UNMIK/PR/1737

PRISTINA - Special Representative of the UN Secretary-General (SRSG), Lamberto Zannier, and Paul Acda, the head of UNMIK's Pillar IV, today visited the compound of the former Kosovo Trust Agency (KTA), now the Privatisation Agency of Kosovo (PAK).

"So far it seems that there is no evidence of anything missing, besides the complete hardcopy set of the documents of the KTA Board of Directors which is in UNMIK's possession. I have received assurances from EU Pillar representatives, that there is an electronic back-up of all KTA documents including claims. In removing

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Kosovo: SRSG address to the OSCE Permanent Council, 04 Sep 2008

Mr. Chairman, dear Colleagues

May I first of all thank you for your kind invitation to join you today here in the OSCE Permanent Council for a discussion of recent developments in Kosovo, and in particular the role of UNMIK and of the OSCE Mission as its Pillar.

Nearly a decade after UN SC Resolution 1244 put an end to hostilities and UNMIK/KFOR were first deployed throughout Kosovo, we are going through a dynamic phase of change and transition, which is presenting

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Kosovo: Press Briefing Transcript for briefing of 03 Sep 2008

UNMIK Director / Division of Public Information Alexander Ivanko

Good morning everybody, I have two announcements for you: Last Friday and yesterday, the SRSG met with the representatives of the families of the missing persons from the Kosovo Albanian and Serb communities. During these meetings Ambassador Zannier said that he was deeply moved by this issue and expressed his sympathy and solidarity with the groups and families that they represent. The SRSG promised that UNMIK would continue to work with the associations to try to make progress on

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Kosovo: Press Briefing Transcript for briefing of 27 Aug 2008

UNMIK Director / Division of Public Information Alexander Ivanko

Good morning everyone, surprise, surprise, no initial statements, we go straight to questions. But we will have a final statement from Colonel Cotard, so please don't leave. Any questions?

BBC: Kosovo's Government is not going to recognize any agreement reached by UNMIK and Belgrade, are you going to impose any kind of agreement for the Kosovo Government?

Alex: As of 15 June we are not in the business of imposing anything, we are not even in the business of

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Kosovo: Special press briefing by Acting PDSRSG Nicholas Haysom of 15 Aug 2008

UNMIK Director of Division of Public Information Alexander Ivanko:

It is a pleasure to introduce the Acting Principal Deputy SRSG Nicholas Haysom, who is the Director of Political Affairs in the Secretary-General's Executive Office, since May 2007. Although you can find his biography on the website, let me highlight that Mr. Haysom's background is in human rights law in South Africa. As an attorney of the South African High Court, he litigated in high-profile human rights cases in the 1980's and 1990's, during the apartheid years. Mr. Haysom was closely

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Kosovo: Press Briefing Transcript for briefing of 13 Aug 2008

UNMIK Director / Division of Public Information Alexander Ivanko

Good morning everyone, no initial statements from UNMIK.

KPS Spokesperson Veton Elshani

Greetings, nothing from the Kosovo Police.

KFOR Spokesperson Col. Jean-Luc Cotard

Good morning, I have no statement.

OSCE Spokesperson Elli Flen

Good morning, no statement from OSCE.

UNMIK Director / Division of Public Information Alexander Ivanko

Any questions?

Kosova Sot: Mr. Ivanko, there was a notice that there will be a reduction of UNMIK staff. Will it affect

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Kosovo: Press Briefing Transcript for briefing of 06 Aug 2008

UNMIK Director / Division of Public Information Alexander Ivanko

Good morning everybody. As you probably know the Secretary General has introduced the UN Cool system which means no jackets, no ties to cut down on air conditioning. I see all four of us are implementing the Secretary General's approach. I have no statements, but I assume there will be questions, over to Veton.

KPS Spokesperson Veton Elshani

Greetings to all, only some elements to mention: during the last days, two persons were arrested for the murder