Secretary-General holds
high-level "Friends of Kosovo" meeting on UN efforts
to rebuild shattered province.
JUNE 30 -- Bringing together ministers and high-ranking officials
from 16 countries and three key international organizations, Secretary-General
Kofi Annan on Wednesday briefed the group on the initial deployment
of the UN mission in Kosovo and the resources it would need to
rebuild the devastated province. FULL
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UN urges returning Kosovars
to halt retaliatory attacksagainst Serb and Roma minorities.
JUNE 30 -- Alarmed by a wave of reprisals against Serb and Roma
minorities in Kosovo, a senior United Nations official on Wednesday
called on returning refugees to prevent retaliatory attacks. FULL
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United Nations food agency
expands Kosovo operation to aid 2.5 million people in Balkans.
JUNE 30 -- The United Nations food agency on Tuesday announced
a dramatic expansion of its emergency aid operation in the Balkans
to assist 2.5 million people who have suffered form the Kosovo
crisis and previous strife in the region. FULL
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Eighteen countries pledge
to send police contingents for UN mission in Kosovo.
JUNE 29 -- Eighteen countries have agreed to send police contingents
to serve with the United Nations Interim Administration Mission
in Kosovo (UNMIK), a UN spokesman said on Tuesday. FULL
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Pace of spontaneous returns
to Kosovo slowing, UN refugee agency reports.
JUNE 29 -- The United Nations refugee agency reported on Tuesday
that the pace of spontaneous returns to Kosovo was beginning to
slow, with a 30 per cent decline recorded on Monday as compared
with the high of 41,700 Kosovars streaming back to the province
last Saturday. FULL
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UN Mission in Kosovo moves
to re-establish judicial system and deploy international police
contingent.
JUNE 28 -- With more than half of the 800,000 Kosovo refugees
now back in the province, the United Nations is moving to defuse
tensions between Serbs and ethnic Albanians, re-establish the
judicial system and deploy international police. FULL
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UNHCR begins organized
repatriation of refugees to three towns in Kosovo.
JUNE 28 -- The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR)
on Monday began the organized repatriation of hundreds of thousands
of Kosovar refugees, taking more than 300 from camps in the Former
Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia to their homes in Pristina. FULL
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Secretary-General forms
"group of Friends" to consult on UN operations in Kosovo.
JUNE 25 -- Secretary-General Kofi Annan has formed a "group
of Friends" for Kosovo to consult on issues facing the United
Nations mission as it sets up operations in the province, a UN
spokesman said on Friday. FULL
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Tensions run high between
Albanian and Serb communities in Kosovo amid violence and lawlessness.
JUNE 25 -- Tensions gripped parts of Kosovo on Friday amid reports
of shootings, sporadic arson attacks and the worst violence in
the provincial capital Pristina since the arrival of KFOR troops
earlier this month, said a United Nations spokesman. FULL
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Aid workers struggle to
find shelter for tens of thousands of refugees flooding back to
Kosovo.
JUNE 25 -- As tens of thousands of ethnic Albanians streamed back
into Kosovo on Friday, aid workers struggled to find shelter for
them in war- devastated villages and to help victims of landmine
incidents, said a UN spokesman. FULL
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Head of UN mission in
Kosovo appeals to NATO countries to send administrators and civilian
police.
JUNE 24 -- The Secretary-General's Acting Special Representative
in Kosovo has appealed to NATO countries to provide civilian police
and administrators for swift deployment in the province, a UN
spokesman said on Thursday. FULL
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UNHCR set to begin organized
return of refugees to safe areas in Kosovo.
JUNE 24 -- The United Nation High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR)
is set to begin organized returns of people to areas in Kosovo
considered safe by KFOR, the international military force. FULL
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UNICEF to school all Kosovo
children; steps up mine-awareness efforts.
JUNE 24 -- The United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) on Thursday
pledged to give every primary school age child in Kosovo the opportunity
to be back in school by the start of the academic year in September.
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Secretary-General urges
patience by Kosovar Albanians while UN readies war-torn province
for their return.
JUNE 24 -- Secretary-General Kofi Annan on Thursday once again
urged patience by refugees anxious to go home to Kosovo while
the United Nations readies the war-torn province for their return.
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Head of UN mission in
Kosovo briefs European foreign ministers.
JUNE 23 -- Sergio Vieira De Mello, the Secretary-General's Acting
Special Representative in Kosovo, briefed European foreign ministers
in Pristina on Wednesday about United Nations operations in the
battered province.
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Secretary-General's talks
with Russian leaders in Moscow focus on Kosovo and other global
issues.
JUNE 23 -- During meetings with top officials in Moscow on Wednesday,
Secretary-General Kofi Annan discussed a wide range of issues,
including the restoration of Kosovo, global developments and the
role of the United Nations. FULL
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UNHCR consolidates relief
distribution network for Kosovo.
JUNE 23 -- As United Nations aid convoys and assessment teams
move out to rural areas from Kosovo's capital Pristina, the UN's
refugee agency is consolidating relief distribution networks and
health services in the war-devastated province. FULL
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Forensic experts from
around world investigating alleged massacre sites in Kosovo.
JUNE 23 -- Forensic experts from around the world are arriving
daily in Kosovo to investigate alleged war crimes sites on behalf
of the United Nations International Criminal Tribunal for the
former Yugoslavia. FULL
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UNHCR stresses need to
provide shelter for refugees streaming back to Kosovo.
JUNE 22 -- The United Nations refugee agency said on Tuesday that
providing shelter in Kosovo is becoming a priority as hundreds
of thousands of people flood back to the province only to find
their homes and villages destroyed. FULL
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UN officials in Kosovo
confer with ethnic Albanian leaders on future political arrangements.
JUNE 22 -- The acting head of the United Nations mission in Kosovo
plans to bring together ethnic Albanian signatories to the Rambouillet
Agreement and a local Serb political leader to discuss interim
political arrangements for the province, a UN spokesman said on
Tuesday. FULL
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United Nations faces unprecedented
tasks in Kosovo, says head of UN mission.
JUNE 21 -- Describing the United Nations role in Kosovo as its
greatest challenge since the concept of peacekeeping began in
the 1940s, the acting head of the UN mission in the battered province
said the world body had never before undertaken such broad and
far-reaching executive tasks. FULL
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Kosovo refugees return
home in growing numbers -- UNHCR.
JUNE 21 -- Ever-growing waves of refugees are abandoning camps
in Albania and the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia and returning
to their homes in Kosovo, the United Nations High Commissioner
for Refugees (UNHCR) said Monday. FULL
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Head of UN mission in
Kosovo welcomes KLA's agreement to disarm.
JUNE 21 -- The acting head of the UN mission in Kosovo on Monday
welcomed the announcement that the Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA)
had signed an agreement with KFOR, the international military
force, to disarm.
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UN war crimes tribunal's
investigative teams start probes in Kosovo.
JUNE 21 -- Investigative teams from the United Kingdom and the
United States are in Kosovo working for the International Criminal
Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia, a UN spokesman said on Monday.
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Secretary-General appeals
to all Kosovars to show "utmost restraint and patience".
JUNE 18 -- Secretary-General Kofi Annan on Friday appealed to
all parties and every citizen in Kosovo to show "utmost restraint
and patience" as the long and hard work of peace-building
and construction begins.
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UN advance team in Kosovo
pushes ahead with efforts to restore basic services.
JUNE 18 -- United Nation efforts to push ahead with the massive
task of restoring normalcy to a shattered Kosovo continued Friday,
as Sergio Vieira de Mello, the UN Secretary-General's Acting Special
Representative, finalized plans for a mine action centre. FULL
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UN refugee agency receives
pledges of cooperation from Kosovo Liberation Army.
JUNE 18 -- The UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) has received
assurances from the Kosovo Liberation Army leadership of full
cooperation with the UN's relief programme in Kosovo, the UN agency
said on Friday. FULL
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Deputy Secretary-General
briefs Security Council on preparations for UN civilian operation
in Kosovo.
JUNE 17-- Deputy Secretary-General Louise Frechette briefed the
Security Council on Thursday about preparations for the UN's massive
civilian operation in Kosovo. FULL
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UN forensic experts gain
access to reported torture site in Kosovo's capital.
JUNE 17-- Forensic experts from the International Criminal Tribunal
for the Former Yugoslavia have gained access to an alleged war
crimes site in Kosovo's capital Pristina, a UN spokesman said
on Thursday. FULL
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Acting head of UN Kosovo
mission confers with Patriarch of Belgrade on Serb exodus from
province.
JUNE 17-- The acting head of the UN Mission in Kosovo (UNMIK)
and the commander of the Kosovo Forces (KFOR) on Thursday discussed
the exodus of Serb civilians with the Patriarch of Belgrade who
is visiting Pristina, said a UN spokesman. FULL
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Thousands of jubilant
Kosovo refugees head home despite UN warnings about landmines.
JUNE 17-- More than 34,000 jubilant refugees have headed home
to Kosovo in the last three days, ignoring warnings from UN agencies
about the danger of landmines and booby traps, the United Nations
High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) said on Thursday. FULL
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UN mission in Kosovo steps
up efforts to restore normalcy to shattered province.
JUNE 16 -- The acting head of the UN Mission in Kosovo (UNMIK)
has joined the commander of the Kosovo Forces (KFOR) in a television
appeal to Serbian civilians not to leave the Yugoslav province.
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Thousands of Kosovar refugees
begin trek home -- UNHCR.
JUNE 16 -- A spontaneous exodus of Kosovars returning home from
neighbouring countries gathered momentum throughout Wednesday,
according to the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees
(UNHCR).
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UN refugee agency alarmed
by Serb exodus from Kosovo.
JUNE 15 -- The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR)
said on Tuesday it is deeply concerned about the exodus of thousands
of Serbians from Kosovo. FULL
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UN Deputy Secretary-General
meets European officials in Geneva to discuss plans for UN mission
in Kosovo.
JUNE 15 -- United Nations Deputy Secretary-General Louis Frechette
arrived in Geneva on Tuesday for a series of meetings with representatives
of European organizations which will work jointly with the UN
as part of the newly-formed UN Mission in Kosovo (UNMIK). FULL
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Exodus of ethnic Albanians
from FYR of Macedonia continues: UNHCR
15 JUNE – Ethnic Albanians continued to flee the former
Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia for Kosovo and southern Serbia,
the United Nations refugee agency said today. FULL
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15-member Security Council
mission set to visit Kosovo and Belgrade
14 JUNE – A 15-member delegation of the Security Council
will head to Kosovo and Belgrade tomorrow for a first-hand look
at the situation in the region and meetings with the Yugoslav
leadership, according to the Council President, Ambassador Anwarul
Karim Chowdhury of Bangladesh, who will lead the team. FULL
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Secretary-General
outlines structure, role of UN civilian mission in Kosovo.
JUNE 14 -- Stressing that international activities in Kosovo must
be integrated with a clear chain of command, Secretary-General
Kofi Annan on Monday issued a preliminary report outlining the
structure and role of the new civilian mission which will administer
the province. FULL
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UN opens headquarters
in Kosovo.
JUNE 14 -- The United Nations on Monday reported the establishment
of its "operational presence" in Kosovo over the weekend
and said it had begun setting up the Pristina headquarters for
the massive international civilian operation that will provide
a temporary administration for the province in accordance with
last week's decision by the Security Council. FULL
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UN agencies begin distributing
emergency relief inside Kosovo as Serbs stream out of province.
JUNE 14 -- United Nations humanitarian agencies are distributing
emergency aid to thousands of people in Kosovo as displaced ethnic
Albanians begin to trickle back to their towns and villages, a
UN spokesman said on Monday. FULL
STORY >>
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