Minister for Communities and Returns Dalibor Jevtic and Deputy Director of the Office for Kosovo and Metohija Dusan Kozarev visited yesterday displaced persons in the camp in Banjica.
Jevtic explained that displaced persons were mostly from the municipalities of Istok/Istog and Klina/Kline. He said that the conditions in which these people live for 12 years were bad and that it was necessary to offer a permanent solution.
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.
Association of Displaced Djakovica citizens strongly protest against the statements made during the unveiling of the monument in Djakovica/Gjakove on the Day of the Disappeared.
The Commemoration of the Day of missing persons in Gjakove/Djakovica was attended by Prime Minister of Kosovo, Isa Mustafa, Assembly President Kadri Veseli, and the Mayor Mimoza Kusari.
Then, according to displaced Gjakove/Djakovica citizens the monument was unveiled only for the "victims of the Albanian people".
BELGRADE - Serbian Foreign Minister Ivica Dacic and the new representative of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) in Belgrade Hans Friedrich Schodder discussed on Thursday the issue of displaced persons in Serbia and the implementation of the Regional Housing Program for refugees.
The two officials expressed their support for a further cooperation between Serbia and the UNHCR in resolving the issues of long-term displacement, statelessness and a large increase in asylum seekers, the Serbian Foreign Ministry said in a release.
"We request for the Serbs from Djakovica to be free to go to the city where they were born," said Djokica Stanojevic, the President of the Association of Displaced from Djakovica/Gjakove to KIM radio.
Stanojevic said that the displaced Serbs from this city are aware that every visit to their native town Djakovica/Gjakove is a danger and the possibility of endangering lives and that is why he requested yesterday from representatives of the US Embassy in Pristina to enable them to attend the upcoming All Souls' Day on Saturday.
In a written reply to KoSSev, representative of the Association of Displaced from Djakovica/Gjakova, Simonida Ašanin, said that the next visit to Đakovica/Gjakova due to memorial service is planned for 14 February.
Displaced Serbs from this city, meanwhile, had a meeting with the US Ambassador in Kosovo, Tracey Ann Jacobson, as well as with the Deputy Special Representative of the Secretary-General of the UN in Kosovo, Jennifer Brush. As Ašanin added, talks with the subject of the rights of Serbs in Kosovo and in Djakovica/Gjakova are still ongoing.
BELGRADE – Head of the Serbian government’s Office for Kosovo-Metohija (KiM) Marko Djuric said Monday that a task force composed of representatives of relevant local and international institutions would be set up to deal with the issue of returns of internally displaced persons (IDPs) to Serbia's southern province.
Director of the Office for Kosovo and Metohija, Marko Djuric will meet today with representatives of the organizations and bodies dealing with the return of refugees and displaced persons, announced the Office for Kosovo and Metohija.