Minister for Communities and Return in the Kosovo government, Dalibor Jevtic, met today with former Minister of Telecommunications of Germany Dr. Schwarz-Schilling and familiarized him with the situation in the return process and with the Ministry's activities, such as activities undertaken to ensure a safe return in Musutiste and Suva Reka/Suharekë Municipality.

Minister for Communities and Return in the Kosovo government, Dalibor Jevtic, said to Novosti that the Ministry’s budget is halved, what puts the Ministry in a very uncomfortable financial situation. From that reason Jevtic initiated a revision of the budget, aimed at providing more funds for return projects.

Minister for Communities and Return in the Kosovo government Dalibor Jevtić expressed deep concerns due to latest incidents in Klina/Kllinë Municipality, when several attacks are registered on Serb returnees and their properties.

Establishment of the Association/Community of Serbs municipalities will be voted in the parliament and because of that we don’t know the date of its creation, said Minister for Communities and Return in the Kosovo government Dalibor Jevtić.

“We can’t talk about the dates at this moment, since it is about the process which implies procedure in the parliament for amendment of the Constitution of Kosovo. However, it is important that the process will finally start,” said Jevtić  to Vesti.

After more than two months of boycott, the ministers and MPs from the Serbian list officially returned to the Assembly of Kosovo, since Kosovo Prime Minister Isa Mustafa instead of Aleksandar Jablanović appointed the new Minister for Communities and Returns, Dalibor Jevtic, who held that function in the previous mandate.

In the Ministry of Communities and Returns, the outgoing Minister Dalibor Jevtic handed over duties to the newly appointed Minister Aleksandar Jablanovic.

Outgoing Minister for Communities and Returns Dalibor Jevtic said that the greatest success in his work was the establishment of regional cooperation between Serbia, Montenegro and FYROM.

SKOPJE - A very small number of internally displaced persons (IDPs) returned to the southern Serbian province in the past 15 years, Director of the Serbian government Office for Kosovo-Metohija Marko Djuric warned during the two-day regional conference in Skopje.

During the conflicts in Kosovo, around 230,000 people were displaced, while 23,000 more Serbs, Roma and other non-Albanians were internally displaced in the province itself. Several thousand IDPs returned to the province until now.

The return of displaced persons to Kosovo as a main theme was discussed at the first regional conference in Skopje, organized by the International Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE). A large number of senior officials from Belgrade, Pristina, Podgorica and Skopje attended the conference.

Press release of the Ministry for Return announced that the OSCE representatives, who organized the meeting, have said that the aim of the conference is finding lasting solutions for the sensitive issues of return.

Director of the Kosovo Police, Shpend Maxhuni, called Serb returnees to join the Kosovo police Service (KPS). Maxhuni said that it would contribute to the reduction of incidents to which returnees are exposed. During the visit to the returnee village Drsnik near Klina/Kline, Maxhuni said that attacks on returnees and their property can be prevented by better cooperation between the returnees and the police.