Kosovo is one of the most polluted places in the Balkans and Europe and has 27 “hot spots” which tremendously pollute the environment and endanger human health. The statement was made at a conference in Pristina organised by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) in cooperation with Italian Embassy on environmental challenges in the Balkans. UNEP, the largest environmental organization, expressed through the conference its interest of improving the environmental situation in Kosovo.

Pier Carlo Sandei, UNEP programme coordinator for the Balkans expressed the organisation’s readiness to assist Kosovo but added that this will depend on the requests made by local institutions. Kosovo’s Minister of Environment and Spatial Planning, Ferid Agani, said that the environmental situation in Kosovo has to improve and that he is happy with the provided support.