Since Tuesday, 18 June, when a landfill between Zvecan and Zitkovac began to burn, reports TV most.
Residents of Zvecan and surroundings, and Mitrovica feel the smell of smoke, lampblack and soot, which does not stop due to the huge surface burning, and after heavy rainfall, smoke spreads especially with the wind.
In northern Mitrovica, Zvecan, Zubin Potok and Leposavic, sessions were held yesterday where the elected mayors of these municipalities officially started their mandate after winning the 19 May elections.
Oaths were laid by mayors Goran Rakic, Vucina Jankovic, Srdjan Vulovic and Zoran Todic.
Raska-Prizren Eparchy Bishop Teodosije visited yesterday people injured in Kosovo police special unit action, who are staying in Mitrovica North Clinical Centre, Radio KIM reports.
Bishop Teodosije thanked the doctors and medical professionals there for their efforts to help those injured. He also wished them a speedy recovery.
Bishop Teodosije in particular spent the time with UNMIK member Mikhail Krasnoshchekov who was beaten up and injured.
A massive peoples’ protest would be held tomorrow at noon, in the center of Mitrovica North, Srpska Lista Chair Goran Rakic confirmed to Radio kontakt plus. The protest would be held in regard to today’s arrests of Serbs in the northern Kosovo by special police units.
Serbian List has issued a press release on Wednesday as a reaction to the extension of detention of Nedeljko Spasojevic and Marko Rosic, TV Most reports.
Serbian List said the decision was made without any evidence and based on false testimonies, recalling that Nedeljko Spasojevic and Marko Rosic are in detention for more than 150 days.
“You have to make this fateful decision to stay where you are, and this is not the decision of an individual, it is the decision of the Serbian people,” the Patriarch of Serbian Orthodox Church Irinej said today at the Church of St. Dimitrije in Mitrovica North, KoSSev portal reported.
The Patriarch has been visiting monasteries, churches, and meeting with Kosovo Serbs for the past four days. He sent clear messages against ethnic partition and delimitation, emphasizing on the other hand that Serbia should not recognize Kosovo as an independent state.
After the British government sent a warning to its citizens not to travel to municipalities in the north of Kosovo due to risks of security incidents, thus causing intense reactions in the public, the UK government in Pristina issued a statement that the British embassy ''advised against all but essential travel to the northern municipalities for several years, due to a number of recent violent incidents linked to organised crime in northern Kosovo. ''
Radio Kontakt Plus (RKP): Mr. Kosnett, in the first place, hello and welcome.
Ambassador Kosnett (AMB): Thank you Jelena. It is a great pleasure to be here in Mitrovica North.
RKP: Since we are talking about Mitrovica North, of course, political issues are always in the first place. When do you expect the Dialogue between Belgrade and Pristina to continue?
Junior basketball team “Borac” players from central Serbia, that was supposed to play a game in Mitrovica North today, was banned to enter Kosovo yesterday at the Jarinje crossing point, Radio kontakt plus reported.
Basketball team “Trepca” was supposed to be their host. “Trepca” trainer Bratislav Dzogovic said he personally and young players are very disappointed over the ban. He added, the team from Cacak delivered the list to the police, said they are a basketball team, spent a half an hour at Jrainje, however their entry in Kosovo was not allowed.
The Kosovo Police, in cooperation with the tax administration and the Kosovo Customs, conducted an operation yesterday in 33 cities in Kosovo during which 235 casinos and betting shops were searched and 35 of them were closed. Customs seized 118 gambling machines, while some betting shops and casinos which were closed did not have a work permit, which was also the reason behind this operation, the Kosovo Police announced in an urgent press conference held in Pristina.