Last UN collective
centre for refugees in Montenegro shuttered
20 May – The United Nations refugee
agency has ended its emergency shelter programme for refugees
in Montenegro, closing its last collective centre in the Balkan
nation which is home to 24,000 people who fled from Croatia, Kosovo
and Bosnia and Herzegovina.
Kosovo
journalist facing contempt charges before UN war crimes tribunal
20 May – A Kosovo Albanian journalist is being brought before
the United Nations war crimes tribunal set up to deal with the
war crimes committed during the Balkan conflicts of the 1990s
on charges of contempt of court after he allegedly identified
a secret witness in a trial.
Veteran
Finnish diplomat named winner of prestigious UNESCO peace prize
16 May – The former Finnish president and current United
Nations envoy Martti Ahtisaari was named today as the winner of
the annual peace prize of the Organization’s cultural agency.
Kosovo
prison guard convicted by UN tribunal to serve rest of jail term
in France
15 May – A former prison guard for the Kosovo Liberation
Army (KLA) who was convicted by a United Nations war crimes tribunal
for the murder of nine detainees and the torture of another prisoner
will now serve the rest if his 13-year jail sentence in France.
Kosovo:
UN peacekeeping chief heads to region for fact-finding tour
2 May – The United Nations peacekeeping chief travels today
to the Balkans for a fact-finding mission on Kosovo, which earlier
this year declared its independence from Serbia.
