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UN INTERIM ADMINISTRATION MISSION IN KOSOVO (UNMIK)Developments today, 11 October 1999
Updated 4 p.m. EST
_____________________________________________________________Civilian Administration
UNMIK assumes control of civil administration in Suva Reka: The UN has assumed control of the municipal administration in Suva Reka, in the area of Prizren, UNMIK reported. The transfer of authority, which occurred on 8 October, was the first transition of civil leadership to the UN from a self-appointed mayor and council in the Prizren region.
The new mayor - formally know as the UNMIK Mayor Ad Interim - has appointed a new interim council of 12 members. The former mayor and six other members of the self-appointed council are part of the new council.
UNMIK works to resolve problems with power supply: UNMIK reported that the power line linking Kosovo with Albanian, which had been disrupted for more than a week, had been re-established. However, faults in the systems at Kosovo's two electric power plants led to the plants being shut down last week. UNMIK is awaiting delivery of a large shipment of diesel fuel needed to restart one of the plants. The second plant is scheduled to be restarted later in the week. The Electricity Management Company, contracted by UNMIK to help mend and supervise the Kosovo's power facilities, is carry out repairs during the shut down to make the plants' function more reliably.
In a related development, UNMIK said that Kosovar electric officials have been invited by Greek authorities to join representatives of regional electric companies at a meeting in Athens this week that will discuss threatened disruptions in the region as a whole. Experts will also attend from Albanian, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, The former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia and Romania. Kosovo experienced power failures last week as a result of the problems at its plants.
Humanitarian
UNHCR winter emergency team operational: The UN High Commissioner for Refugees has established a winter emergency team to focus pre-winter house-reconstruction efforts in outlying areas of the territory where damage to houses has been the greatest. The winter emergency team, which became operational last week, is working to direct assistance to villages in high altitudes or off-tarmac roads where snow and ice may soon hinder delivery of supplies.
However, concerns remain about the slow transport of winter emergency supplies into Kosovo, UNHCR said. Last week, only eight trucks with timber entered the territory. Nearly 200 truckloads of 6,500 metric metres of timber are scheduled for delivery in coming weeks.
For daily updates on activities of each UN entity in the field, you can access up-to-date information on the following websites:
UNHCR - www.unhcr.ch
UNICEF - www.unicef.org
UN High Commissioner for Human Rights - www.unhchr.ch
ICTY - www.un.org/icty
WHO - www.who.org
UNEP - www.grid.unep.ch/btf
WFP - www.wfp.org
OSCE - www.osce.org/kosovo/
______________________________________________________________________For further information, contact the Spokesman's Office:
tel (212) 963-7161/2; fax (212) 963-7055.
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