12 November
SRSG Hans Haekkerup
signed Regulation 2001/29 on "Documents Permitting the Operation
of Vehicles in Kosovo and Other Related Matters"-in other words,
on driving licenses. The regulation states that a person can operate
a vehicle if he/she has a valid Kosovo driving license, issued by the
competent government authority in Kosovo, or a license issued by the
competent authorities of the FRY, or of a foreign state.
The Election Complaints
and Appeals Subcommission fined Epoka e Re newspaper DM 1,000 for contravening
the election rules by giving excess coverage to one party.
13 November
Almost 2,000 people
who were to work as supervisors in polling stations during the election
came to Kosovo after having undergone training in Greece. They were
to work at more than 1,600 polling stations in Kosovo and more than
190 in Serbia proper and Montenegro.
An ultramodern court
building was inaugurated in Kamenice/Kamenica, Gjilan/Gnjilane region.
UNMIK Regional Administrator Pasqualino Verdecchia called it a "giant
step" towards building the rule of law in Kosovo. The USAID funded
the project, while UNMIK would meet its operating costs.
14 November
The Banking and
Payments of Kosovo (BPK) granted approval to American Bank of Kosovo
under Regulation 1999/21, with paid-in capital of DM 4 million. It is
the fifth bank to receive a final license from the BPK. The five banks
are operating a total of 19 branches throughout Kosovo. Two more banks
were issued preliminary licenses and other applications are being processed
by the BPK.
15 November
UNMIK Division of
Public Information officially launched Focus Kosovo-a news magazine
which will come out every two months. The new publication is intended
to inform those interested in political, economic, social and legal
developments in Kosovo's international administration and provisional
self-government.
The Central Election
Commission certified the list of 54 names submitted by the Kosovo Serb
citizens' initiative-Coalition Return (Povratak). Of the list, 15 are
women, in accordance with the electoral rule stipulating that one of
every three of the first two-thirds of a political entity's list must
be women. Only five of the candidates live outside Kosovo, in Serbia
proper or Montenegro.
16 November
The first batch
of out-of-Kosovo votes were flown in to Pristina and taken directly
to the counting centre in Obiliq/Obilic. There were some 36,000 people
who had registered as out-of-Kosovo voters. For their votes to count,
they had to arrive in Vienna no later than 10 a.m. on 17 November.
17 November
Assembly elections
were held all around Kosovo. The average turnout with 75 per cent of
polling stations reporting was 63 per cent.
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