Kosovo: UN police arrest
270 people over deadly riots in March
17 June 2004 – United Nations police
in Kosovo have now arrested about 270 people in relation to
the two days of deadly riots and ethnically-motivated violence
that roiled the province in mid-March, a UN spokesman said today.FULL
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UN war crimes tribunal
dismisses bid to acquit Miloševic
16 June 2004 – The United Nations war crimes tribunal
for the former Yugoslavia today dismissed a legal motion to
acquit former Yugoslav President Slobodan Miloševic of
charges of genocide and other crimes against humanity after
finding there is enough evidence for him to answer.FULL
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Danish civil servant appointed
new UN envoy for Kosovo
16
June 2004 – Secretary-General Kofi Annan has informed
the Security Council that he intends to appoint Søren
Jessen-Petersen of Denmark as his new Special Representative
for Kosovo and the head of the United Nations Interim Administration
Mission (UNMIK), a UN spokesman said today.FULL
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Kosovo: Norwegian envoy
to head UN probe into March violence
11
June 2004 – United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan
has appointed Ambassador Kai Eide of Norway to investigate the
wave of ethnic violence that roiled Kosovo in mid-March, leaving
19 people dead, hundreds injured and many homes and Serbian
religious and cultural sites damaged or destroyed. FULL
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UN mission spotlights Kosovo’s gender
gap in employment and education
8
June 2004 – Kosovo suffers from a serious gender gap,
with the United Nations mission’s first comprehensive
survey of gender data in the province showing that women are
severely under-represented in the workforce and girls’
attendance at secondary school is much lower than that of boys.
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Kosovo: UN envoy expresses
distress at murder of Serb teenager
7 June 2004 – Describing his deep
distress at learning of the murder of a Serbian teenager in
Kosovo on Friday night, the head of the United Nations mission
in Kosovo has warned that any attempts to spark ethnic tensions
in the troubled province will not be tolerated. FULL
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