Week of 21 May through 27 May

IAC issues statement on refugees returning to Kosovo
MAY 26 -- The Kosovo Interim Administrative Council today issued a statement appealing to countries playing host to Kosovo refugees to ensure their return iscarried out in a controlled and humane fashion.  FULL STORY >>

First registration of political party in Kosovo
MAY 26 -- The Albanian Christian Democratic Party of Kosovo, the PSHDK, yesterday became the first political party to submit an application for registration in the Kosovo municipal elections to be held in the autumn, according to a United Nations spokeswoman.  FULL STORY >>

Kouchner talks to representatives of missing persons
Kouchner offers to take representatives of missing persons to European Parliament
MAY 24 -- The representatives of people missing from Kosovo, many of them detained in Serbia, have been offered the chance to explain their case to the European Parliament by the head of the United Nations Interim Administration Mission in Kosovo (UNMIK), Dr Bernard Kouchner.  FULL STORY >>

Kouchner denounces sentencing of Kosovar Albanians in Serbian court
MAY 23 -- Yesterday's sentencing of 143 Kosovar Albanians by a Serbian court was today denounced as a "farce" by Dr. Bernard Kouchner, head of the United Nations Interim Administration Mission in Kosovo (UNMIK).  FULL STORY >>

Kouchner meets with Kosovo war veterans and invalids
MAY 23 -- Dr. Bernard Kouchner, head of the United Nations mission in Kosovo, met today with representatives of war veterans and invalids to plan ways to improve their living conditions and access to medical care.  FULL STORY >>

Kosovo detainees agree to end hunger strike
MAY 22 -- Prisoners in Mitrovica have agreed to end their hunger strike after meeting with Dr. Bernard Kouchner, head of the United Nations Interim Administration Mission in Kosovo (UNMIK), who assured them that trials would begin at the end of this week, a spokeswoman said today in Pristina.  FULL STORY >>