“The international community has instrumentalized heralds in Kosovo who support Kosovo’s independence,” the Head of the Kosovo Office, Marko Djuric stated yesterday, expressing his disagreement with their actions and claiming that he is not jeopardizing anyone by saying it openly.
Belgrade based daily Vecernje Novosti today writes that announcements from Pristina officials that war crimes cases and other cases of serious crimes, would be transferred from EULEX to a special court in Pristina, raise a concern among Kosovo Serbs due to rigged indictments. The daily adds that anxiety is caused also due to Kosovo authorities preparations for war crimes in absentia.
Pristina University with a
temporary headquarters in Mitrovica North was and will be in the Serbian
education system, says Director of the Office for KiM, Marko Djuric, reports
Radio television of Serbia (RTS) quoting the Office for KiM website.
"Keep your hands away
from our university, it cannot be kidnapped because knowledge is acquired on
it!'' said Djuric.
The registration of Trepca as a public company is a matter of days according to Kosovo PM Ramush Haradinaj.
Haradinaj perceives Belgrade as an obstacle for that, while at the same time he offered to Serbs seats in Main Board of Trepca, and, as Kontakt plus radio reported, they refused it.
Office for Kosovo and Metohija said that they would continue to prevent any attempt of the Serbian property usurpation.
Guarantees to the Serbian Orthodox Church to have full right to dispose of all its movable and immovable property and to maintain the legal protection regime for 44 facilities that represent special zones of Serbian cultural and religious heritage, and recognition of the position of the Serbian Orthodox Church (SOC) in Kosovo - those are the main demands of Belgrade in a plan sent by the Serbian side to European mediators in dialogue with Pristina, TV Most reported, quoting daily Vecernje Novosti.
Director of the Office for Kosovo and Metohija, Marko Djuric spoke with the Head of the OSCE mission in Kosovo about the political and security situation in Kosovo, reads the statement of the Office for KiM, Radio Television of Serbia is quoting.
Djuric pointed out that the recent intrusion of Albanian special forces in the north of Kosovo was a threat to stability and that it is necessary that international organizations in the field take steps to prevent such provocations happening again, reports RTS.
The Kosovo and Metohija Office announced that in the village of Grabac in the municipality of Klina, around 15 Serbian returnees’ houses were broken into and condemned the attempt to jeopardize the security of Serbs, reports regional broadcaster N1.
Director of the Office for KiM Marko Djuric, at the meeting with the German Ambassador in Serbia, Thomas Schieb, said that Serbia is determined to protect interests and improve the living conditions of the Serbian people in Kosovo, and that it is concerned about the renewed wave of pressure and attacks on Kosovo Serbs and their property in the past period.
In the statement of the Office for Kosovo and Metohija, the Deputy Director of the Office for Kosovo and Metohija, Dusan Kozarev, said at the OSCE Human Dimension Conference in Warsaw that Serbs in Kosovo have been exposed to ethnically-motivated attacks in the past year about 50 times. Kozarev estimates that this is largely due to the failure Pristina to fulfil its obligations in terms of establishing the Community of Serb Municipalities (ZSO), reports Radio Television of Serbia (RTS).
The Serbian government Office for Kosovo said on Wednesday that its chief Marko Djuric had been banned from entering Kosovo but the local police denied that claim.
The Beta news agency was told by the Office that Pristina had banned Djuric from entering Kosovo but Ranking police official Besim Hoti denied that claim saying that Djuric had permission for the visit and decided not to enter Kosovo.
“He was not banned from entering, he had permission to enter Kosovo, but he had his own reasons to turn back,” Hoti said.