Memorial service held in Kosovo for victims of NATO bombing (Tanjug)
A memorial service held early Tuesday in the church of St.
Serbia marks another anniversary of NATO attacks (B92, Beta, Tanjug)
BELGRADE -- Serbia is on Tuesday marking the 16th anniversary since the beginning of NATO's air war against the country, then a part of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia.
It is illusory to believe that Serbia will recognize independence of Kosovo (IRS, Tanjug)
Marko Djuric, head of the Serbian government's Office for Kosovo and Metohija, stated on Monday that people in Kosovo should not be misguided that Serbia will recognize the independence of its southern province.
“The process of normalization (of relations) is irreversible, and constant delusion about Serbia's recognition of the independence of KiM is a reflection of political immaturity and a worrying lack of focus on real problems in KiM - unemployment, corruption and bad international relations,” Djuric told Tanjug.
Kosovo Minister of Foreign Affairs, Hashim Thaci said in an interview
Regional officials in Pristina on Wednesday (Tanjug)
BELGRADE - Regional officials will confer in Pristina on Wednesday on priority infrastructure projects and regional connections, it was stated at the South East Europe 2020 conference in Belgrade on Monday.
Head of the EU Delegation to Serbia Michael Davenport, who announced that he will attend the conference, said that the topics will comprise traffic, regional connections and positioning of the region in pan-European transport networks.
Davenport said that about one billion euros will be allocated for these projects through the IPA mechanism, and expressed hope that con
Two injured in incident in Kosovska Mitrovica neighbourhood (Dailies)
Two people suffered minor injuries in an incident that took place in northern Kosovska Mitrovica's Brdjani neighbourhood on Wednesday.
Two men - an ethnic Albanian and a Serb - were lightly injured in an incident that involved another Serb man, regional Kosovo police chief Zeljko Bojic said.
In a statement to the local Kontakt Plus radio, he said that a window on an excavator operated by an ethnic Albanian was broken in the incident.
The relevant prosecutor's office categorised the cases as criminal destruction of movable property and inflicting light bodily harm, Bojic sa
Anti-Serb pogrom in Kosovo commemorated (Tanjug)
BELGRADE - With a series of Remembrance Day events, Serbia is commemorating on Tuesday the March Pogrom in which Kosovo-Metohija's ethnic Albanians killed eight and wounded 170 Serbs 11 years ago, expelling 4,000 others. The association of Kosovo-Metohija Serbs organised a memorial service for the pogrom victims in St.
Djuric: Serbs in KiM still not free (Tanjug)
BELGRADE - Marko Djuric, director of the Serbian government's Office for Kosovo-Metohija (KiM), stated that 11 years after the March pogrom, Serbs in KiM are still not free, and expressed expectation that the ones responsible for the Golgotha of Serbs will finally be punished.
In the pogrom, which lasted from March 17 to 19, 2004, a total of 4,000 Serbs were expelled, ethnic cleansing was carried out in six towns and 10 villages, and many churches and monasteries were burnt down. Even today Serbs in KiM are not free, and this is best proved by the v
Rakic calls for an end to privatization in Mitrovica (RTS, Blic, Tanjug)
Mayor of Mitrovica North, Goran Rakic called the Privatisation Agency of Kosovo to suspend the sale of premises, which belong to the company LUX in this city.
Privatisation Agency of Kosovo informed the municipality on March 9 that by the end of this month the privatization tender would be announced for nine premises of this company, increasing the number of the business premises to around 30, for the so-called privatization, in the last 15 days.
Shops are located in the central places in Mitrovica.
Rakic emphasized that the illegal privatization of LUX facilities is directly violating
Protest against discrimination and human rights violations (Tanjug)
Healthcare employees in northern Kosovo areas with a Serb majority have stopped working for an hour in protest against the poor security situation there and violations of their human rights.
Doctors saw only urgent patients during the protest on Wednesday.
The protest was organised in reaction to a threat by the police that they would arrest two doctors unless they performed an autopsy on the body of the tragically deceased Dusanka Andrejevic, for which the order was issued in Albanian.
Doctors of the hospital in Kosovska Mitrovica asked on Monday to have the order in Serbian.
The protest
Djuric: Serbs will not return to the Kosovo institutions (RTS, Blic, Tanjug)
Djuric made the announcement after meeting with representatives of Serbs from Kosovo, attended and by the Prime Minister Aleksandar Vucic, adding that the next week will be held an emergency meeting with the representatives of the Serbian municipalities, to discuss actions after dismissal of Minister Aleksandar Jablanovic and "political humiliation of Serbian people."
"We did not enter the government to be the folklore or ikebana, nor we will participate as long as someone is thinking that we should be decoration," Djuric said, adding that this is the position of all Serbian representatives w