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Five prisoners released in Kosovo
Publishing date: 23 January 1999
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Kosovo Verification Mission (closed)
What we do: Human rights
PRISTINA, 23 January 1999-- Five civilians, taken hostage on Friday January 22, were released tonight as a result of KVM efforts....
KVM condemns abduction of Serbian civilians
Publishing date: 23 January 1999
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Kosovo Verification Mission (closed)
What we do: Human rights
PRISTINA, 23 January 1999-- The OSCE Kosovo Verification Mission strongly condemns the abduction on Friday, January 22 of five civilians from the village of Nevolijane near Vucitrn....
OSCE rejects Yugoslav decision to expel Ambassador Walker
Publishing date: 21 January 1999
Content type: Press release
Where we are: Troika, OSCE Kosovo Verification Mission (closed)
What we do: Conflict prevention and resolution
VIENNA, 21 January 1999-- The OSCE Ministerial Troika, Foreign Ministers Knut Vollebæk of Norway, Wolfgang Schüssel of...
Deliberate shooting at KVM vehicles
Publishing date: 21 January 1999
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Chairmanship
What we do: Reform and co-operation in the security sector
PRISTINA, 21 January-- The commander of the KLA forces in the Decani area has acknowledged publicly that his forces were responsible for the shooting and wounding of two KVM personnel on 15 January, saying it was due to a misunderstanding....
Head of Kosovo Verification Mission declared "persona non grata"
Publishing date: 19 January 1999
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Chairmanship, OSCE Kosovo Verification Mission (closed)
OSLO, 19 January 1999-- On 18 January the OSCE Chairman-in-Office, Minister of Foreign Affairs, Mr. Knut Vollebaek received the message from the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia Minister of Foreign Affairs, Mr. Zivadin Jovanovic that Ambassador William Wal
Statement by the OSCE Chairman-in-Office on Kosovo
Publishing date: 19 January 1999
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Chairmanship, OSCE Kosovo Verification Mission (closed)
OSLO, 19 January 1999-- The OSCE and the international community are fully united in their concern over the increased tension in the region....
OSCE Permanent Council Chairman shocked over killings in Kosovo
Publishing date: 18 January 1999
VIENNA, 18 January 1999-- The Chairman of the Permanent Council of the OSCE, following today's discussion in the Permanent Council, expresses shock over the killings of ethnic Albanian civilians in southern Kosovo on Friday, 15 January....
Yugoslav authorities request meeting with KVM
Publishing date: 17 January 1999
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Kosovo Verification Mission (closed)
What we do: Human rights
PRISTINA, 17 January 1999-- After the conclusion of a meeting with Yugoslav authorities in the town of Stimlje, General Drewienkewicz of the Kosovo Verification Mission said...
OSCE Chairman-in-Office condemns atrocities in Kosovo
Publishing date: 16 January 1999
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Chairmanship, OSCE Kosovo Verification Mission (closed)
What we do: Human rights
OSLO, 16 January 1999-- The Chairman-in-Office of the OSCE, Foreign Minister Knut Vollebaek of Norway, expressed shock and outrage over the killings of ethnic Albanian...
Two OSCE Mission members wounded in Kosovo
Publishing date: 16 January 1999
PRISTINA, 16 January 1999-- Ambassador William Walker, Head of The Kosovo Verification Mission said: "Yesterday afternoon, near the village of Pozar, in the Decani region, two of my mission...