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Serbs and Albanians together are seeking missing persons (RTK2, Beta)

Association of missing persons in Kosovo and Metohija and the Association of missing Albanians have agreed with the families to seek together all disappeared. This was after the meeting, "Non-governmental associations for Missing Persons - Example of best practice and cooperation between communities", in Pristina, said the coordinator of the Association for missing persons in Kosovo, Milorad Trifunovic. Trifunovic told BETA that the policy remains the major obstacle to resolving the fate of missing Serbs and Albanians. "We believe that there are still some who are protecting criminals.

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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

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Courts in Kosovo will continue to work as before (Kontakt plus radio)

Senior Public Prosecutor in Mitrovica, Milan Bigovic said today that the Serbian judges and prosecutors in Kosovo will continue to work as before. Bigovic in a statement to Radio Kontakt Plus in Mitrovica, denied reports of some media in Kosovo which reported that functions of the employees in the Serbian justice system in Kosovo shall be terminated in March. - That's not true, we continue to work as before - said Bigovic. The second program of the Radio Television of Kosovo reported that the integration of the Kosovo judiciary system starts from 25 March and that the process will last unti

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Stefanovic: Talks about integration of Serbian police officers in the Kosovo system (RTS)

Integration of Serbian police officers into Kosovo Police will be discussed at the meeting with the representatives of the Kosovo Police, announced Minister of Internal Affairs of Serbia Nebojsa Stefanovic. At the session of the Serbian parliament’s committee for internal affairs Stefanovic said that the meeting will also be used for discussing the range of other security issues in relation to security of Serbs in Kosovo and Metohija, carried Tanjug. “We’ll insist that perpetrators of the murder of Serbian gendarme Stevan Sindjelic at the administrative bounda

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Around 50 Serbian police officers suspended in northern Kosovo (Blic)

Around 50 Serbian police officers in northern Kosovo have been suspended due to their rejection to closely cooperate with prosecution and officials dealing with investigations on involvement of Serbs in alleged crimes committed in northern Kosovo, carried Kosovo Police. Information leaking with regard to murder of the police officer Enver Zumberi in 2010 in Zubin Potok was quoted by Kosovo Police as a justification for suspension for Serb police officers. In Kosovo Police said that KP director Shpend Magjuni and EULEX representatives will meet representatives

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Bozovic: Bank accounts of northern municipalities blocked (RTK2)

Bank accounts of four municipalities in northern Kosovo are blocked as of yesterday without any justification, said president of the local assembly of North Mitrovica Ksenija Bozovic to RTK2, and added that it is about a pressure which benefits no one. Bozovic stressed that budgets of all four municipalities have been adopted as stipulated by laws and the Brussels Agreement and that there is no basis for the blockade.

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Voluntarism a condition for deployment of judges in Kosovo (RTK2)

The principle of willingness should be the main condition for deployment of judges in Kosovo, however the question remains how many judges from Serbia would agree to be integrated into the Kosovo judicial system. The president of the High Judicial Council of Serbia Dragomir Milojevic today said that judges cant’ be deployed into Kosovo courts against their own will and that the first criteria should be their good will, that they wish to be integrated into the Kosovo judiciary, whereas the final deal in relation to a relevant procedure has not been reached yet.

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Mitrovica: Work place for all police officers (Vecernje Novosti)

Former employees of the Serbian Ministry of Internal Affairs from North Mitrovica request a meeting with the Prime Minister Aleksandar Vucic. No one replied so far on their request to be redeployed in MIA or in the Kosovo Police. Unsatisfied due to their current status, former employees of the Police Department in North Mitrovica who were not integrated into Kosovo Police, and who staged protest last week in front of the Office for Kosovo and Metohija’s premises, request a meeting with the Prime Minister Aleksandar Vucic.

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Dissolution of local assemblies in the north would jeopardize the dialogue (RTK2)

The introduction of the extraordinary measures in municipalities in northern Kosovo would lead to fiasco of the Brussels Agreement and the end of local institutions in the Kosovo system, since the local elections in line with the Kosovo laws would never take place there again, claims the Mayor of Leposavić/Leposaviq Dragan Jablanovic.

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Kosovo's Ministry of Finance: First amendment of the budget, then transfer of money (Blic)

Without the adoption of a revised budget in the municipal assemblies in northern Kosovo, the Ministry of Finance in Pristina will not allow the use of funds belonging to the municipalities, was said from the ministry.  Article 62, paragraph 5 of the Law on Public Financial Management stipulates that if the Municipal Assembly fails to adopt a budget for the new fiscal year and fails to submit it to the Minister by March 1st, then it cannot execute any transaction on behalf of the municipality.

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