Set of 30 mortal remains repatriated to Kosovo
under UN auspices
26 May 2004 – A third group of
some 30 bodies exhumed from Batajnica, Serbia, and believed
to be of missing Kosovo Albanians were repatriated under United
Nations auspices today.FULL
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Kosovo: Top UN administrator
Holkeri resigns for health reasons
25
May 2004 – The top United Nations administrator of ethnically-divided
Kosovo, Harri Holkeri, today announced his intention to resign
for health reasons, just 10 months after he was appointed by
Secretary-General Kofi Annan and two weeks after he was briefly
hospitalized for fatigue.FULL
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Probe closed of police officers
connected to deadly shootings in Kosovo - UN
19 May 2004 – Finding no "reasonable
suspicion" of any misconduct, an international prosecutor
has closed separate investigations into four Jordanian police
officers arrested and questioned last month in connection with
deadly shootings that took place at a prison compound in Kosovo,
the United Nations mission in the province said today.FULL
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UN mission chief reinstates
12 Kosovo officers suspected in bridge demolition
18 May 2004 – The head of the United
Nations Interim Administration Mission in Kosovo (UNMIK) has
reinstated 12 members of the province's civilian protection
force who had been suspended pending an investigation into their
roles in the demolition of a railway bridge in April 2003.FULL
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Fatigued top UN envoy to Kosovo
hospitalized in France
13 May 2004 – The top United Nations envoy to Kosovo,
Harri Holkeri, was admitted to hospital in Strasbourg, France,
last night suffering from fatigue due to his heavy work schedule.FULL
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Recent violence in Kosovo shook UN mission 'to its core', Security
Council told
11
May 2004 – Although the recent wave of violence shook
the United Nations mission in Kosovo "to its foundations,"
it aimed to root out and punish the perpetrators while remaining
resolute in its task to help prepare the province for self-governance,
the UN's senior envoy in the province told the Security Council
today.FULL
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Ethnic violence in March damaged normalization process in Kosovo
- Annan
5 May 2004 – In the wake of the deadly ethnic violence
that swept Kosovo in March, United Nations Secretary-General
Kofi Annan says what is now needed is concrete action by the
leaders and people of the province to not only ensure the perpetrators
are brought to justice, but to rebuild the confidence among
minority communities, and most of all, to address the root causes
of the violence.FULL
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