Week of 29 August through 4 September
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United Nations in Kosovo selects first 200 local recruits to begin police training.
SEPTEMBER 3 -- After weeks of screening, the United Nations in Kosovo today finalized selection of the first group of 200 local recruits to be trained as officers for the territory's new indigenous police force. FULL STORY >> |
| Police Commissioner Sven Frederiksen |
United Nations legalizes use of foreign currencies in Kosovo.
SEPTEMBER 3 -- In another major step to restart the economy of Kosovo, the United Nations has legalized the use of foreign currencies for payments and contracts in Kosovo. FULL STORY >>
UNICEF in push to repair more than half of Kosovo's schools.
SEPTEMBER 2 -- With more than half of Kosovo's schools damaged, many seriously, the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) is helping in a major push to ensure that all schools will be ready for the start of the normal school year on 1 November. FULL STORY >>
Kosovo faces food gap, UN agencies say.
SEPTEMBER 2 -- Even with 143,000 tons of emergency food aid planned for this year, Kosovo still faces a projected shortfall in available food supplies, two United Nations agencies report. FULL STORY >>
Kosovo Transitional Council establishes commission to help enhance security.
SEPTEMBER 1 -- Kosovar political leaders, meeting today in the United Nations-supervised Kosovo Transitional Council, agreed to form a commission to assist in efforts to enhance security throughout the territory. FULL STORY >>
United Nations in Kosovo to launch new customs service.
SEPTEMBER 1 -- In a major move to restart the economy of Kosovo, the UN will launch a new customs service and begin collecting customs duties on Friday, under a new regulation signed into law by the chief of the UN Kosovo operation, Dr. Bernard Kouchner. FULL STORY >>
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Kosovo's schools re-open to complete interrupted 1998-1999 courses.
SEPTEMBER 1 -- In a major step towards restoring Kosovo's education system, more than half of its 1,000 schools were to re-open today and resume classes that were interrupted earlier this year, the United Nations reported in Kosovo. FULL STORY >> |
| Kosovo school children |
Humanitarian efforts can house vast majority of Kosovars through winter, says UN refugee agency.
AUGUST 31 -- Parallel measures to repair structures in Kosovo and to place people in temporary housing should ensure winter shelter for all of the nearly 700,000 people whose homes have been damaged or destroyed, the UN refugee agency said today. FULL STORY >>
UN in Kosovo appoints Serb and Albanian judicial officers for Mitrovica.
AUGUST 31 -- The United Nations in Kosovo, striving to restore civil order in areas of high tension, today appointed nine judicial officers in the city of Mitrovica. FULL STORY >>
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Security Council members condemn violence against ethnic minorities in Kosovo.
AUGUST 30 -- Members of the Security Council on Monday condemned violence committed against ethnic minorities in Kosovo and the international security force, KFOR, and demanded that such acts stop immediately. FULL STORY >> |
| Amb. Martin Andjaba, SC President (August) |
US fully supports United Nations work in Kosovo -- visiting US Ambassador Holbrooke.
AUGUST 30 -- Stressing the immensity of the United Nations task in Kosovo, the newly appointed United States Ambassador to the UN, Richard Holbrooke, told the press in Kosovo's capital, Pristina, Sunday that the US Government fully supported the important work of the UN Kosovo operation and its chief, Dr. Bernard Kouchner. FULL STORY >>
United Nations continues work to restore customs services in Kosovo.
AUGUST 30 -- In an important step to help restore customs services and generate much-needed public revenue in Kosovo, the United Nations will tomorrow begin registering all forwarding agents, as well as importers and exporters of goods. FULL STORY >>
To ensure optimal screening, UN postpones start of Kosovar police training.
AUGUST 30 -- To ensure optimal screening by the United Nations of the first class of recruits for a new multi-ethnic Kosovar police force, training of the first group of 200, set to begin tomorrow, has been postponed by one week. FULL STORY >>