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Kosovo: Press Briefing Transcript for briefing of 06 Feb 2008

Thursday, 07 February 2008

UNMIK buidling in Prishtina

UNMIK Director / Division of Public Information Alexander Ivanko

Good morning everybody! I have two points for you, in the next 15 minutes the SRSG
will meet with the Foreign Minister of Finland and the OSCE Chairman in office Ilkka
Kanerva. The SRSG highly appreciates the work of OSCE here in Kosovo, especially the
excellent job they did during the 17th November elections. And also our congratulations
and I hope everybody will agree with this, to the winners of the Kosovo journalism prizes
that were awarder on Monday, especially to Musa Sabedini who was voted best
correspondent of the year and to Artan Mustafa who was voted the best journalist of the
year. That’s all I have.

KPS Spokesperson Veton Elshani

On the 5th of February 2008 at 16:00 the Unit against commercial crimes in Gjilan has
arrested an official employee in the Civil Registration Centre in Gjilan. The reason for his
apprehension or arrest is because of suspicion that he abused his office by enabling
applicants through forged documentation to get ID cards as permanent residents of
Kosovo. There are suspicions that for the services provided he took money so he was
detained for 72 hours while the police are seeking a second person who is also suspect,
the citizen of the Gjilan city also.

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