Serbian Foreign Minister Ivica Dacic will meet today, in separate meetings in Belgrade, the Head of the OSCE in Kosovo, Jean-Claude Schlumberger and UNMIK chief Zahir Tanin, said the Serbian Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

Dacic will meet first Schlumberger at 10 am, and then with Tanin at 11 am.

These meetings precede the meeting of the UN Security Council where will be submitted regular quarterly UNMIK report on the situation in Kosovo.

The OSCE Mission in Kosovo, in co-operation with Kosovo Police and Terre des Hommes, hosted a conference today in Pristina on children’s rights, with a special focus on child beggars. The participants discussed the institutional co-operation on tackling the issue of child beggars and the protocol on police co-operation for preventing, restricting and combating trafficking in persons, primarily children.

The OSCE mission in Kosovo launched an awareness campaign aimed at encouraging journalists to report cases of intimidation, threats or blackmail through a new free helpline set up by the Association of Journalists of Kosovo. The campaign, that will feature billboards across Kosovo in the Albanian, Serbian and Turkish languages, will run for one month with the objective of informing the journalist community of this helpline and using the information received to help law enforcement bodies take necessary action. “Recent years have been quite difficult for journalists in Kosovo.