UN envoy unveils Kosovo budget for next
year
31 December – The senior United
Nations envoy to Kosovo today released details of the province's
budget for 2004, revealing there will be a small deficit but
revenue will be higher than expected as the UN mission there
tries to rebuild the area torn by fighting in the late 1990s.
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UN transfers final government responsibilities
to Kosovo Institutions
30 December - The United Nations Mission
in Kosovo (UNMIK) has transferred a final set of responsibilities
to local provisional institutions as part of its commitment
to gradually introduce self-government to Kosovo. FULL
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Bosnian Serb camp commander sentenced
to 23 years for murder, torture
18 December – The United Nations
war crimes tribunal for the former Yugoslavia today sentenced
the former commander of a Bosnian Serb detention camp to 23
years’ jail for murdering and torturing inmates while
allowing the rape of prisoners during the Balkans conflict.
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UN official says progress towards standards
could be reviewed in 2005
17 December – The United Nations peacekeeping chief today
raised the prospect that Kosovo's progress towards reaching
the standards of a normal society - necessary before its future
status can be determined - could be reviewed by mid-2005. FULL
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UN envoy urges Kosovo to aim for standards of "normal society"
16 December - The senior United Nations
envoy to Kosovo today urged the province to reach progress towards
recently elaborated standards in order to pave the way for decisions
on its future status. FULL
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Security Council backs set of written
Standards fo Kosovo
12 December - The Security Council today
issued its support for a set of written standards launched this
week to prepare ethnically divided, United Nations-administered
Kosovo for final status, including free, fair and regular elections,
free media and a sound and impartial legal system. FULL
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UN envoy in Kosovo signs regional statement
against human trafficking
10 December - A senior United Nations
envoy in Kosovo joined the countries of South-Eastern Europe
today in signing an agreement affirming their commitment to
protect the rights and dignity of the victims and witnesses
of human and child trafficking during a ministerial meeting
in the Bulgarian capital, Sofia. FULL
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UN Tribunal tells Serbia and Montenegro
to produce accused general
10 December - The United Nations war
crimes tribunal for the former Yugoslavia has told Serbia and
Montenegro that a former Yugoslav Army general facing charges
over the 1991 siege of Dubrovnik must be transferred to the
tribunal in The Hague, the Netherlands, immediately.
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UN launches set of standards in preparation
for final status
10 December - Senior United Nations and
local officials today launched a set of standards designed to
prepare ethnically divided, UN-administered Kosovo for final
status, including free, fair and regular elections, free media
and a sound and impartial legal system.
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Standards for Kosovo - UNMIK Press Release
1078, 10 December 2003
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(Cyrilic) PDF version
International Monetary Fund - Staff Visit to Kosovo
Concluding Statement
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UN mission 'strongly condemns' attack
on World Bank Delegation in Kosovo
8 December - The United Nations mission
in Kosovo (UNMIK) today strongly condemned the violent attack
on the World Bank Board of Governors over the weekend in Mitrovica,
a town that has been a flashpoint of tension between ethnic
Albanians and Serbs over the past two years.FULL
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UN bus damaged during disturbance in
Kosovo
6 December - One person suffered minor
injuries and a number of vehicles were damaged today when a
public disturbance flared up in Kosovo, the UN Mission in the
province reported. FULL
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UN Tribunal sentences Bosnian Serb General
to 20 years' jail over role in Sarajevo siege
5 December - The United Nations war crimes
tribunal for the former Yugoslavia today sentenced a former
Bosnian Serb general to 20 years in jail for spreading terror
among Sarajevo residents during the city's long siege with a
campaign of sniping and shelling attacks. FULL
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UN envoy to Kosovo orders suspension
of 12 KPC officers pending inquiry
3 December - The head of the United Nations
Interim Administration Mission in Kosovo (UNMIK) has ordered
that 12 Kosovo Protection Corps officers be suspended, with
pay, for six months while a police investigation takes place
into their role in the demolition of a railway bridge in the
northern Kosovo town of Loziste in April. FULL
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