Deputy Director of the Serbian government's Office for Kosovo-Metohija (KiM) Dusan Kozarev and Deputy Head of the OSCE Mission in Kosovo Paivi Nikander discussed on Thursday about the current security situation in Kosovo, particularly when it comes to the security of Serbs and other non-Albanians in the province.
The Office for Kosovo-Metohija warned that the stoning of the bus which transported Serb pilgrims to Pec/Peja constituted a loud warning about the state of security of Serbs and Serb holy sites in Kosovo.
The bus with Serbian licence plates was stoned in Pec/Peja on Sunday, when the bus was exiting the churchyard of the Church of Saint John in Pec/Peja. Nobody was injured in the incident, but the event caused considerable damage.
Director of the Office for Kosovo and Metohija Marko Djuric said that Serbian representatives have the legitimate right to decide on who will represent them, with regard to the request of certain Serbian representatives in Kosovo to withdraw Aleksandar Jablanovic from the position of President of the Serbian List.
Djuric said that he would not directly interfere in the decisions of the representatives of Serbs in Kosovo institutions, but that he viewed their initiative positively.
The name "Republic of Kosovo" is not stated in the agreement on the energy sector, which was recently signed by the representatives of Belgrade and Pristina in Brussels, but it is written in the so-called "disclaimer", i.e. statement on disclaimer of liability which is located in the main text of the agreement. The part states views of both sides on the property issues in Kosovo.
On August 30, the International Day of the Disappeared, the Serbian government's Office for Kosovo and Metohija (KiM) regrets to observe that over 16 years no progress has been made in resolving the fate of the 1,711 missing persons in Kosovo, or in shedding light on the crimes and punishing the perpetrators, and appeals to the international institutions to help in this matter.
The Serbian Government's Office for Kosovo and Metohija has denied the claim made by Edita Tahiri, Deputy Prime Minister of Kosovo, that Belgrade "recognized Kosovo."
According to Edita Tahiri, whose statement was carried earlier on Thursday by Beta agency, Serbia did this "through the agreement on energy" reached earlier this week, which, according to her, contains the term "the Republic of Kosovo."
Deputy Director of the Serbian government's Office for Kosovo and Metohija, Dusan Kozarev presented on Wednesday in Gracanica, contracts for 50 aid packages to returnee farmers in the municipalities of Pec/Peja, Istok/Istog, Klina/Klline, Urosevac/Ferizaj and Gora.
The aid packages in the form of agricultural machinery, provided by the Office for KiM though public procurement totalling around RSD 10 million, is a co-funded project under IPA 2012, a broader project worth EUR 2.4 million.
Dusan Kozarev, Deputy Director of the Serbian government's Office for Kosovo and Metohija, and Vladimir Cucic, Commissioner for Refugees and Migration, conferred with Chief of the UNHCR Mission in Kosovo Narasimha Rao on Monday, reads a statement issued by the Office for KiM.
Health Centre in Mitrovica will face serious problems unless it integrates into the Kosovo system, because it can remain very quickly without drugs and medical supplies which mainly are from Serbia.
The situation is further exacerbated as of the 1st of June by the decision of the Government of Kosovo which says that this institution can be supplied with medicines and medical supplies only through humanitarian supplies or licensing-integration into Kosovo's health system.
More than 220,000 internally displaced persons (IDPs) from Kosovo share the fate of refugees and cannot return to their own homes, the Serbian government’s Office for Kosovo-Metohija (KiM) said in a release on Saturday.
The Office said on the occasion of International Refugee Day, marked on June 20, that no sustainable conditions for the return of IDPs to Kosovo had been created yet despite the fact that the majority of those people wanted to return to their homes.