Serbia accused of inflating numbers of IDPs (Radio Free Europe)
The strategy for the return of displaced persons during and after the conflict in Kosovo, drafted by the Kosovo’s Ministry for Communities and Returns, is facing numerous challenges in its implementation stage. Ministry’s spokesperson, Uroš Staletović, said that usurped property is a significant obstacle to the return of displaced members of the Serb community. According […]
Read More →Kozarev informs the OSCE about the difficult position of Kosovo Serbs (Kossev)
Deputy Director of the Office for Kosovo and Metohija Dušan Kozarev informed the participants of the OSCE Summit “Human dimension” about the problems that face the Serbs in Kosovo and presented numerous examples of endangering the fundamental human and civil rights and freedoms. Speaking at a panel on “Fundamental freedoms, including freedom of movement,” Kozarev […]
Read More →Headlines 19 September
• Border demarcation to be voted in October (Koha Ditore)
• Opposition says yes to Mustafa’s invitation (Zëri)
• Slim chances for visa liberalisation this year (Koha Ditore)
• Beyani: Serbia and Kosovo to find durable solution for IDPs (Bota Sot)
• Thaçi against demolition of the Orthodox Church in Pristina (Zëri)
• Vetëvendosje: Agreement on registration plates, shameful (RTK)
Return of displaced unsatisfactory (KIM radio)
Return to Kosovo is unsatisfactory and better conditions must be provided for the return and survival, it was said at the meeting of UN Special Rapporteur on the Human Rights of Internally Displaced Persons Chaloka Beyani and the Minister for Communities and Return Dalibor Jevtić. As announced by the Ministry of Communities and Returns, Jevtić […]
Read More →UN official learns about planned Kosovo settlement for IDPs (B92)
The concept of the Sunny Valley returnee settlement in Kosovo has been presented a UN special rapporteur. Chaloka Beyani, in charge of human rights of internally displaced persons (IDPs) learned about the project from Dusan Kozarev, deputy director of the Serbian Government Office for Kosovo. Kozarev also told his about “the obstacles to a greater […]
Read More →Headlines 13 September
Headlines – 13.09.2016 Dačić: No conditions for return of Serbs to Kosovo (Koha Ditore) Mogherini: Kosovo, Serbia to implement agreements (Zëri) “Visa liberalisation after Kosovo fulfils all criteria” (Zëri) Border demarcation: Mustafa doesn’t want consensus but convincing (Koha) EU to reconsider lifting of visas for Kosovo in October (Klan Kosova) Tahiri insists agreement on license […]
Read More →30k refugees from Bosnia and Croatia, 200k IDPs from Kosovo (B92)
On this year’s World Refugee Day there are still almost 30,000 refugees in Serbia from Bosnia-Herzegovina and Croatia. In addition, there are more than 200,000 internally displaced persons (IDPs) from Kosovo in the country, the Serbian Commissariat for Refugees has announced. “Despite all efforts and significant funds from the budget of Serbia and from the […]
Read More →Jevtić: The Sunny Valley is not colonization (KIM radio)
– The Sunny Valley cannot be and is not colonization, but the result of the fact that the return of displaced persons from Kosovo and Metohija cannot be implemented in those areas where they want to return, such as Đakovica, for example – said the Kosovo Minister for Return and Communities, Dalibor Jevtić. Jevtić told […]
Read More →The right to a pension for IDPs mission impossible (RTK2)
Administrative Instruction of the Ministry of Labour and Social Protection, which contains new requirements for entitlement to a basic pension in Kosovo, has created difficulties to the applicants. Obtaining the necessary documents, such as proof of property tax payment for internally displaced persons is almost mission impossible. For the relevant ministry, new requirements are a […]
Read More →Djuric: No mechanism for return of property of IDPs (Tanjug)
In Serbia, there are 204,049 internally displaced persons (IDPs) from Kosovo-Metohija, the director of the Serbian government office for Kosovo-Metohija said on Tuesday, noting that the return of Serbs and other non-Albanians is limited by a lack of a mechanism for a return of usurped property. Seventeen years after the conflict in Serbia’s southern province, […]
Read More →Jevtić and Numanović about the return of displaced (TV Most)
Minister for Communities and Returns in the Kosovo government, Dalibor Jevtić talked in Kosovo Polje/Fushë Kosovë with the Minister for Human and Minority Rights in the Government of Montenegro, Sead Numanović. Jevtić said that issues related to the process of return of displaced persons from Montenegro to Kosovo were discussed, and in general solutions to the […]
Read More →ID applications facilitated for displaced persons (KiM radio)
It was announced at at a meeting held in Pristina that the working group on finding durable solutions for return will try to find a way to facilitate financial or bureaucratic problems that displaced persons face in exercising their right to identity documents. The second day of the conference was attended by representatives of the Government of […]
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