UNMIK/PR/859
Sunday, 27 October 2002

SRSG Denounces the Killing of LDK leader in Suhareke/Suva Reka

PRISTINA – SRSG Michael Steiner today denounced the killing of the Suhareke/Suva Reka Municipal Assembly President, Uke Bytici, and two others this afternoon “as an appalling act of calculated murder”.

Immediately after hearing of the incident, SRSG Michael Steiner contacted President Ibrahim Rugova to express his most profound condolences.

“This callous killing is particularly distressing after yesterday’s municipal elections in Kosovo which were conducted so smoothly and without violent incident”, he sa