Security Council restates
support for Kosovo ‘Standards before Status’ policy
30 April 2004 – The future status
of Kosovo will only be taken up after the province’s Provisional
Institutions of Self-Government (PISG) attain certain benchmarks
– including free, fair and regular elections, free media
and a sound and impartial legal system – outlined in a
United Nations-backed plan, the Security Council said today.FULL
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Kosovo: UN envoy calls for major
effort to rebuild trust after March violence
29 April – Declaring that last
month’s ethnic violence in Kosovo, the worst since the
United Nations took over its administration five years ago,
dealt “a huge setback” to stabilization and normalization,
the top UN envoy there warned today that much more remains to
be done to rebuild trust and confidence among all communities.FULL
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Lack of evidence
stalls probe into drowning of 3 Kosovo children, UN mission
says
28 April 2004 – An investigation
by the United Nations mission in Kosovo into the alleged criminal
drowning of three children, which sparked last month's large-scale
inter-ethnic violence, has stalled because of a lack of evidence,
a spokesperson for the UN police said today.FULL
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Albanian president pays first official visit to UN-administered
Kosovo
22
April 2004 – The president of Albania today paid the first
official visit ever by an Albanian head of State to United Nations-administered
Kosovo just a month after tensions between ethnic Albanians
and Serbs boiled over into violence in which 19 people died
and hundreds were injured. FULL
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Prisoners in Kosovo start
hunger strike in protest at alleged delays: UN mission
21 April 2004 – Some 26 inmates
at a detention centre in Kosovo have begun a hunger strike to
protest delays in the hearing of appeals of two men found guilty
of war crimes, a spokesman for the United Nations Interim Administration
Mission in Kosovo (UNMIK) said today.FULL
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UN lifts
immunity of police officers connected to deadly shootings in
Kosovo
19 April 2004 – The United Nations
has lifted the immunity of four police officers from Jordan
detained for questioning in connection with Saturday’s
deadly shootings of three of their international colleagues
in Kosovo, a UN spokesman said today.FULL
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3 international officers
killed in Kosovo, UN reports
18
April 2004 – The senior United Nations envoy to Kosovo
has expressed his grave concern about a shooting incident in
Mitrovica on Saturday that left three international police dead
and nearly a dozen others injured.FULL
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UN peacekeeping chief urges Kosovo to address causes of recent
violence
13 April 2004 – Kosovo's leaders and its people must take
concrete steps to tackle the root causes of the ethnic violence
that continues to plague the province, the top United Nations
peacekeeping official told the Security Council today.FULL
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UN police arrest alleged
leader of last month's deadly Kosovo riots
12 April 2004 – United Nations
police officers in Kosovo have arrested a Kosovo Albanian man
for his alleged role in last month's wave of deadly rioting
that swept across the province.FULL
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UN police in Kosovo arrest four more suspects
over murder of two colleagues
8 April 2004 – Police from the
United Nations Interim Administration Mission in Kosovo (UNMIK)
have arrested another four people in connection with the murder
last month of two police officers in the troubled province,
a UN spokesman announced today.FULL
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Kosovo: new criminal codes come into force in UN-administered
province
6 April 2004 – Less than three
weeks after the worst unrest to hit Kosovo since the United
Nations took over its administration nearly five years ago,
the ethnically divided province today marked what its top administrator
called a “crucial milestone” with the entry into
force of two new criminal codes. FULL
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Iraq, Middle East top agenda in
Annan's talks with Russian leaders
5
April 2004 – Iraq and the Middle East, as well as regional
issues such as Kosovo and the conflict in Georgia, topped the
agenda as United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan held talks
with Russian President Vladimir Putin and other senior officials
today in Moscow.FULL
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UN envoy to Kosovo holds talks with leader
of Serbia and Montenegro
2 April 2004 – The United Nations' top envoy to Kosovo
met today with the Prime Minister of Serbia and Montenegro,
Vojislav Kostunica, in Belgrade to discuss last month's wave
of deadly ethnic violence in the troubled province.FULL
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UN mission takes control of Kosovo's
main airport from military forces
1
April 2004 – The United Nations Interim Administration
Mission in Kosovo (UNMIK) today formally took control of the
airport serving Pristina, the province's capital, ending five
years of military authority over the transport hub.FULL
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