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	United Nations Interim Administration Mission in Kosovo - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The United Nations Interim Administration Mission in Kosovo or UNMIK is an interim civilian administration of Kosovo, under the authority of the United Nations.
		According to Amnesty International, the presence of peacekeepers in Kosovo led to an increase in the trafficking of women for sexual exploitation.
		Belgrade and Kosovo Serbs accused the UNMIK administrator from 2004 until June 2006, Søren Jessen-Petersen, for being too close to those alleged to have masterminded attacks against Serbian civilians during the Kosovo War.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/UN_Mission_in_Kosovo (579 words)

	Serbia seeks end to UN mission in Kosovo (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Kosovo's outgoing UN mission chief, Harri Holkeri, warned Thursday the security situation there was "very fragile" and the province could turn into a hotbed for terrorism if it was abandoned by the international community.
		The role of the UN and Nato peacekeepers in Kosovo once divided nationalists and moderates in Serbian politics but now there is unanimous agreement across the political spectrum that the intervention has failed.
		Kosovo Albanian Prime Minister Bajram Rexhepi has condemned the idea as an emotional response to the March violence and a way of dividing the province or reintegrating it with Serbia.
	www.balkanpeace.org /hed/archive/jun04/hed6510.shtml (693 words)

	Complete UN Kosovo Coverage
		UN security officers quickly cordoned off the affected area and the building was evacuated after the letter was discovered in the mailroom of the UN Interim Administration Mission in Kosovo (UNMIK), spokesman Fred Eckhard told a press briefing in New York.
		The statement also welcomed the signing by the UN Mission in Kosovo (UNMIK) and Belgrade on 5 November of a Common Document, which was consistent with Security Council resolution 1244 and the Constitutional Framework for Provisional Self-Government in the province.
		Kosovo: head of UN mission, Transitional Council voice outrage at attacks on US 12 SEPTEMBER – The top United Nations official in Kosovo and the Kosovo Transitional Council today expressed outrage over the terrorist acts against the United States yesterday, while a rally of solidarity with the victims was held in the streets of Pristina.
	www.un.org /peace/kosovo/news/kosovo2.htm (7522 words)

	UN Volunteers at work in Kosovo's divided city of Mitrovica (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		I was on my way to Kosovo as a UN Volunteer," recalls Jasper, one of 200 UN Volunteers assigned as civil administration support officers to the UN Mission in Kosovo (UNMIK) last September.
		UN Volunteers participate in high–level meetings with various non-governmental organizations (NGOs), local politicians and opinion leaders to find a way of restoring public services that have totally broken down.
		Marie feels that the gratitude of the people she could help to survive is the fuel that makes a UN Volunteer run, particularly since there are so many ways in which UN Volunteers can contribute to the welfare of the people of Kosovo.
	www.unv.org /infobase/unv_news/2000/87/00_03_87YUG_kos.htm (1449 words)

	UN Mission in Kosovo doing "a Magnificent Job", says leader of Security Council Delegation. 01 May 2000 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		MAY 1 -- The UN Interim Administration Mission in Kosovo (UNMIK) was "doing a magnificent job" despite the enormity and pervasive nature of the task, the head of the Security Council delegation to Kosovo said today.
		The purpose of the visit, which ended yesterday after an intensive two-and-a-half days touring all parts of Kosovo, was for the members to see first-hand the challenges facing the UN in implementing its mandate under the Security Council Resolution 1244 and to exhort Kosovars to cease violence and support UN efforts for reconstruction and reconciliation.
		Ambassador Chowdhury said that without such a visit to Kosovo it would not have been possible to comprehend the enormity of the task that the UN was facing in Kosovo.
	www.ess.uwe.ac.uk /kosovo/unmik__currentnews1.htm (342 words)

	NATO Update: New Head of UN Mission in Kosovo at NATO - 9 September 2003
		Regarding the situation in Kosovo, at a joint press conference with Lord Robertson, Mr Holkeri stated that the role of UNMIK was to make the province a safe place for all of its inhabitants to live in.
		The situation in Kosovo could be better and needs efforts on both sides for it to improve, he said while stressing that its future could never be based on the use of violence.
		Mr Holkeri is the former President of the 55th General Assembly of the UN (2000-2001) and was Prime Minister of Finland from 1987 to 1991.
	www.nato.int /docu/update/2003/09-september/e0909a.htm (356 words)

	UN mission in Kosovo and KFOR
		UN officials in Pristina stressed that the Mitrovica events underscored the need for KFOR and UN civilian police to be able to respond adequately to similar siltation throughout Kosovo to secure public peace and order.
		UN civilian officers, operating as part of the UN Interim Administration Mission in Kosovo (UNMIK), will work out of Pristina's existing police stations and from substations to be set up in "hot spots" in the city.
		However, UN staff in Kosovo have reported that the situation for Serbs in mixed villages in the region is becoming increasingly difficult, a UNHCR spokesman in Pristina said.
	www.converge.org.nz /pma/smin.htm (8144 words)

	Ex-Security Chief Blows Whistle on UN's Kosovo Mission (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		The U.N.'s repeated failure to act on received intelligence has allowed illegal paramilitary groups to flourish and engage in terrorist attacks aimed at destabilizing regional governments in the Balkans, said Thomas Gambill, a former security chief with the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE), self-described as the world's largest regional security agency.
		The U.S. mission in Kosovo alone cost $5.2 billion between June 1999 and the end of 2001, according to a report from the U.S. Government Accountability Office.
		Following the NATO bombing of Kosovo, American troops under NATO command were stationed in neighboring Macedonia and Albania while then-President Bill Clinton decided on the size of the U.S. contingent to be deployed in Kosovo.
	www.aina.org /news/20050927101014.htm (1475 words)

	NATO Fact sheets: NATO's Role in Relation to Kosovo (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		The mission is seeking to build a secure environment within the Serbian province in which all citizens, irrespective of their ethnic origins, can live in peace and, with international aid, democracy can begin to grow.
		In the wake of what Bernard Kouchner, the head of the UN Mission in Kosovo, has described as "forty years of communism, ten years of apartheid, and a year of ethnic cleansing", peace-building in Kosovo is an exceptionally difficult and long-term task.
		Since then, more than 1.3 million Kosovo Albanian victims of ethnic cleansing have returned to their homes and villages; the murder rate has fallen from 50 to seven per week; and more than 16,000 houses, 1,165 schools and almost 2,000 kilometres (1,250 miles) of roads have been cleared of mines and unexploded ordnance.
	www.nato.int /docu/facts/2000/kosovo.htm (839 words)

	News: Balkans, Ethnic Albanian guerrillas warn UN to leave Kosovo
		The ANA, which the UN mission in Kosovo regards as a terrorist organisation, has in recent years claimed responsibility for several deadly attacks in Kosovo, southern Serbia and Macedonia.
		The statement was issued ahead of a scheduled visit to the province on Wednesday by the chief UN mediator in talks on Kosovo's future status, Martti Ahtisaari.
		Kosovo has been administered by the United Nations and NATO since mid-1999, when the alliance's bombing campaign ended a crackdown by Serbian forces against separatist Albanian rebels.
	www.reliefweb.int /rw/RWB.NSF/db900SID/ACIO-6MGHQU?OpenDocument (331 words)

	Recent Violence in Kosovo Shook UN Mission 'To Its Core', Security Council Told - Global Policy Forum - UN Security ...
		Although the recent wave of violence shook the United Nations mission in Kosovo "to its foundations," it aimed to root out and punish the perpetrators while remaining resolute in its task to help prepare the province for self-governance, the UN's senior envoy in the province told the Security Council today.
		The mission had no means to augment its security forces, and KFOR was not reinforced until after the violence ended.
		Meanwhile, violence had obviously had a very adverse effect on the overall returns process, and the current security environment in Kosovo was not conducive to the forcible return of members of minority communities to their homes, he said.
	www.globalpolicy.org /security/issues/kosovo1/2004/0511shook.htm (530 words)

	UN mission in Kosovo regrets decision by Albanian leader to boycott joint administration (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		UN mission in Kosovo regrets decision by Albanian leader to boycott joint administration
		JULY 5 -- The United Nations Interim Administration Mission in Kosovo (UNMIK) regrets the decision announced yesterday by the leader of Kosovo Democratic Party (PDK) to freeze participation in the territory's joint administration, a spokesperson for the mission said today.
		Thaci is the former political leader of the disbanded Kosovo Liberation Army and leader of one of Kosovo's largest political parties.
	www.ess.uwe.ac.uk /Kosovo/unmik__currentnews19.htm (221 words)

	KFOR - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Kosovo Force (KFOR) is a NATO-led international force responsible for establishing a safe and secure environment in Kosovo.
		KFOR entered Kosovo on June 12, 1999 under a United Nations mandate, two days after the adoption of UN Security Council Resolution 1244.
		The Contact Group countries have said publicly that KFOR will remain in Kosovo even after Kosovo's future status is determined (i.e., whether it becomes independent or remains part of Serbia).
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/KFOR (376 words)

	ISN Security Watch - Kosovo's partisan politics undermines UN authority
		Annabi told the UN Security Council that the UN mission still faces numerous challenges, including: providing freedom of movement for minorities, developing local governing bodies, and establishing dialogue between Belgrade and ethnic Albanian authorities in Pristina.
		The UN mission in Kosovo has established a special police squad to investigate the killings and has adopted extra security measures along with NATO-led forces in the province.
		The UN ambassador for Serbia and Montenegro, Dejan Sahovic, urged the council to ensure that the assailants in this case are brought to justice.
	www.isn.ethz.ch /news/sw/details.cfm?ID=6784 (651 words)

	The Jackson Progressive: Yugoslovia
		Since then, however, as it became clearer that the Kosovo Albanian majority was unwilling to meet the criteria and the UN unable to enforce them, there was a permanent watering down of prerequisites, until the proclaimed policy of "standards before status" was finally buried with Mr.
		Kosovo, one would believe from the media, now that it is freed from the suppression of the Serbs, is stabilizing politically and moving towards civil government on a western model.
		Kosovo, while it is occupied by NATO troops and no longer under the domination of Serbia, is being "ethnically cleansed" of Serbs by the Kosovo Liberation Army.
	www.jacksonprogressive.com /issues/kosovo/kosovomain.html (9275 words)

	Kosovo news
		Kosovo: UN mission reaches accord with Belgrade on Serb vote in upcoming elections
		12 SEPTEMBER – The top United Nations official in Kosovo and the Kosovo Transitional Council today expressed outrage over the terrorist acts against the United States yesterday, while a rally of solidarity with the victims was held in the streets of Pristina.
		Kosovo: head of UN mission condemns killing of Albanian family
	www.un.org /peace/kosovo/news/kostor.htm (1687 words)

	UNMIK - At a Glance - Introduction
		In Kosovo, the United Nations took on a sweeping undertaking that was unprecedented in both its scope and structural complexity.
		Working closely with Kosovo's leaders and people, the mission performs the whole spectrum of essential administrative functions and services covering such areas as health and education, banking and finance, post and telecommunications, and law and order.
		The second head of the UN Mission was Mr.
	www.unmikonline.org /intro.htm (451 words)

	BBC NEWS \| World \| Europe \| Explosion at UN mission in Kosovo
		A UN spokeswoman said the target of the attack, which took place just outside the compound, was not clear.
		The Kosovo Albanian population, which considers Mr Haradinaj a hero for his role in the conflict, has staged angry protests against the indictment over the past few days.
		Kosovo, which is a province of Serbia-Montenegro, has been under UN administration since 1999.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/world/europe/4342403.stm (164 words)

	Obituary (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Kenyan UN Volunteer Faisal Abdulla was one of 24 people on board a World Food Programme (WFP) plane that crashed on 12 November about 15 kilometres north of Pristina, Kosovo, where it was due to land.
		Faisal Abdulla, 24, was travelling to begin his assignment as a UNV civil administration support officer attached to the UN Mission in Kosovo (UNMIK).
		The UN Volunteer was embarking on a promising career in the field of international development.
	www.unv.org /infobase/unv_news/1999/86/99_12_86_obituary.htm (351 words)

	OSCE Mission in Kosovo - Homepage
		The OSCE Mission in Kosovo, the largest OSCE field operation, forms a distinct component of the United Nations Interim Administration.
		A series of training sessions on budget planning organized by the OSCE Mission in Kosovo, together with the Ministry of Finance and Economy and USAID, is helping to prepare municipal officials to take on greater financial responsibilities.
		To fight the growing problem of internal human trafficking in Kosovo, the OSCE is working to help organizations and local actors to understand their roles in identifying, protecting and reintegrating victims.
	www.osce.org /kosovo (278 words)

	stopVAW -- UN Peacekeeping Mission Personnel and Trafficking in Women
		-led international peacekeeping missions stationed in post-conflict zones have been targeted by the media and human rights watch groups for their failure to adequately confront the issue of trafficking in their assigned countries.
		Below is a summary of current UN standards of accountability and jurisdiction for peacekeeping missions, and accounts of the UN Missions in Bosnia-Herzegovina and Kosovo.
		The report finds that the UN Interim Mission in Kosovo (UNMIK), the NATO-led international military force in Kosovo (KFOR), and the Provisional Institutions of Self-Government in Kosovo (PISG) had not done enough to protect the human rights of women and girls trafficked to, from and within Kosovo.
	www.stopvaw.org /UN_Peacekeeping_Missions.html (1294 words)

	BBC NEWS \| Europe \| UN boss in Kosovo chides Serbia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		That flare-up in violence was widely seen as a wake-up call for the UN and the international community in general that they could not allow the uncertainty over the future of Kosovo to be prolonged much longer, the BBC's South-East Europe analyst Gabriel Partos says.
		There was growing awareness that Kosovo's interim status - legally part of Serbia, but administered by the UN - needed to be replaced by a long-term settlement.
		A comprehensive survey conducted for the UN last summer concluded that conditions were ripe for launching the status talks, which got under way in February under the UN's special envoy, Martti Ahtisaari.
	feeds.europenews.net /?rid=a4b1c91968c348a2&cat=88176adfdf246af5&f=1 (548 words)

	Refugees International: Articles: Kosovo: UN Delay in Responding to Lead Poisoning Threatens Roma
		Despite repeated health warnings, the UN Mission in Kosovo (UNMIK) has delayed for over a year evacuation of hundreds of internally displaced Roma, Ashkali, and Egyptian (RAE) from highly toxic camps poisoned by lead.
		The UN’s intransigence is condemning children to severe lead poisoning, possibly resulting in irreversible mental and physical retardation.
		Nations of the UN Security Council should urge for resolution of this issue before approval is issued for a decision on Kosovo’s final status.
	www.refugeesinternational.org /content/article/detail/6848 (1163 words)

	New Belgrade regime presents UN Kosovo mission with challenge (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Bernard Kouchner, head of the UN mission and Kosovo´s de facto governor, is in "consultations" with foreign capitals over the best way to proceed with the "delicate task" of rapprochement with Belgrade, the official said.
		Veton Surroi, publisher of Kosovo´s leading Albanian-language daily and a member of the Albanian negotiating team at the Rambouillet summit held to try and bring an end to the province´s civil war, said he had noted that Kostunica had used his inaugural address to reaffirm Yugoslavian sovereignty over Kosovo.
		Under the UN Security Council resolution which set up Kouchner´s mission Kosovo is described as a Yugoslav province, but ethnic Albanians boycotted the federal elections and refuse to accept Belgrade´s authority.
	www.balkanpeace.org /hed/archive/oct00/hed866.shtml (536 words)

	Kosovo & Yugoslavia: Law in Crisis
		Kosovo, the UN Mission in Kosovo, peacekeeping, KFOR, war crimes, the ICTY, refugees, the KLA, NATO, Slobodan Milosevic, the Serbian opposition Radio B92 Belgrade, and Yugoslavia
		Letters and messages sent to JURIST during the 1999 Kosovo war by refugee academics and lawyers formerly resident in Kosovo...
		Copies and analysis of the various drafts of the Rambouillet Accords on the future of Kosovo that were the subject of intensive negotiations in France in February and March 1999, but were never signed by all parties.
	jurist.law.pitt.edu /kosovo.htm (3227 words)

	MORE THAN 100 KOSOVO SERBS KILLED BEFORE UN MISSION STARTED TO BE IDENTIFIED SRNA (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Kosovo Serbs, have been exhumed from the locations of Dragodan 2 in Pristina and the Orthodox Christian cemetery in Djakovica and Kacanik.
		Members of UNMIK (UN Mission in Kosovo) will also take part in the identification of the bodies whose identities will be established by the use of DNA analysis.
		It is believed that the bodies are mainly of Serbs who had been kidnapped or killed before the arrival of the (UN) peace mission in Kosovo-Metohija in 1998 and 1999 but some of them were killed following the arrival of the peacekeepers on 11 June 1999.
	emperors-clothes.com /reports/news/srna120203.htm (220 words)

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