PRISTINA - Jennifer Brush, former Director of the Office of South Central European Affairs at the US Department of State, has been appointed as Deputy Special Representative of the UN Secretary-General in Kosovo. The decision to appoint Brush was announced by UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on Wednesday, UNMIK said in a statement. Brush succeeded Robert Sorenson of the United States on September 1, the statement said.

A UN Security Council meeting to present UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon’s regular quarterly report on the situation in Kosovo was held late on Friday. An agreement was reached that a special court for war crimes committed in KiM should be set up as soon as possible, Tanjug reported. Serbian Foreign Minister Ivica Dačić said that Serbia expects a special court to be set up as soon as possible, by the beginning of the next year at the latest, before which indictments will be raised against leaders of the Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA) suspected of crimes against humanity and war crimes. Dačić

NEW YORK - A UN Security Council (UNSC) meeting to present UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon's regular quarterly report on the situation in Kosovo-Metohija will be held in New York on Friday. Serbia’s First Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs Ivica Dacic will participate in the meeting. According to a release from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Dacic will present Serbia's opinion on the work of UNMIK, the current situation in Kosovo-Metohija in the context of the recent elections in the province, and the situation concerning the return of internally displaced persons. The

A cloud of doubt surrounding the crimes in Kosovo will only be cleared after court proceedings are complete, says John Clint Williamson. The U.S. prosecutor headed an EU team that looked into the war crimes committed by the ethnic Albanian KLA against Serbs in Kosovo. Williamson spoke for Tanjug on Saturday, the last day of his term in office as the chief prosecutor for the EULEX Special Investigative Task Force (SITF).

Chairman of the Serbian parliament’s Committee on Kosovo- Metohija (KiM) Milovan Drecun said Wednesday that despite extensive documentation on the July 1999 murder of 14 Serb reapers in the village of Staro Gracko, in the municipality of Lipljan, no one had yet been convicted for the crime. “There is extensive documentation from an investigation conducted by the UNMIK police, and there are persons suspected to have committed the crime,” Drecun told Belgrade-based TV Pink on the occasion of 15 years since the murder of the Serb reapers. He pointed out that “nothing is being launched, and much

Tomorrow will be 15th anniversary from the murder of 14 Serbian harvesters in Staro Gracko, near Lipljan. They were killed from the ambush and the youngest of them was seventeen. Memorial service will serve the clergy of the Diocese of Ras and Prizren. In October 2007, UNMIK police arrested Mazljum Bitici, from the village of Veliki Alas, near Lipljan on suspicion of having participated in the murder. Bitici, after two months, due to lack of evidence, was released.

Situation in Mitrovica and the manner in which justice is carried out will be the most important topic of the talks in Brussels, said today Director of the office for KiM, Marko Djuric. "The main topic of discussions will be the situation in Kosovska Mitrovica, where there are still tensions due to the bridge events.

The Director of the Serbian Government Office for Kosovo and Metohija, Marko Djuric, said today in a talk with UNMIK chief Farid Zarif in Kosovska Mitrovica that Belgrade’s key interest in Kosovo is stability. He added that Serbia, with the “reinforced power” it has gained from entering the provincial government and parliament of Kosovo, will continue to fight for the rights of its citizens.  Djuric said that he informed the UN chief in Kosovo that representatives of the Serbian people are actively participating in forming the new provincial administration and government.

BELGRADE - Ivica Dacic, Serbia's first deputy prime minister and foreign minister, said on Monday in a meeting with Head of EULEX Mission in Kosovo-Metohija Bernd Borchardt that the presence of that and other international actors in Kosovo, such as UNMIK and KFOR, is a guarantor of Serbs' survival in Kosovo-Metohija. Dacic told Borchardt that Serbia expects EULEX to continue conducting its activities in the same scope of jurisdiction in the next two years, reads a release issued by the ministry of foreign affairs. During the talks, the officials considered Serbia's cooperation with EULEX so