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Sarajevo is not your city, Mr Karadzic, but mine

02 March 2010 | By Nidzara Ahmetasevic

Radovan Karadzic Radovan Karadzic, Sarajevo is not your city, and you have no right to say that it is, just as you do not have the right to say in public, even if it’s in court, that someone has dug up bones around Bosnia and brought them to Srebrenica to make a fake graveyard. This is insulting.


Feith: ICJ Opinion May Ease Tensions
09 March 2010 | Bojana Barlovac

Pieter Feith, the head of the International Civilian Office in Kosovo, said that the opinion of the International Court of Justice on the legality of Kosovo's declaration of independence could help alleviate tense relations between Belgrade and Pristina.

Belgium Sends Back Asylum Seekers
10 March 2010 | Nikola Lazic

Belgium intends to begin sending back asylum seekers from Serbia and Macedonia this week. The first bus, carrying 44 passengers, left Brussels this morning.

Lalovic and Skiljevic: High Standards of Medical Treatment in Kula
11 March 2010 |

Slavko Zdrale, former Director of Kasindol hospital, says there was a dispensary which applied "high standards" in Kula Penal and Correctional Facility, adding that prisoners were taken to hospital if necessary.



Kosovo Serbs Sign Electricty Deal

Pristina | 14 May 2009 |
 
Three Serb communities in Kosovo have signed contracts with Kosovo’s Electricity Corporation in order to begin paying their electricity bills.

The three communities located in the municipality of Kline have accumulated around 70 thousand euro of debt to Kosovo’s Electricity Corporation, KEK, since the end of the 1998-99 conflict.

“We did the billing every month, but no one paid it,” admitted Xhemajl Buqani, KEK official for Kline.

The agreement was reached at a ceremony on Wednesday after KEK agreed to freeze the debts the Serb communities have accrued, in order to ensure that they begin to pay.

The head of the local office for return, Milorad Sarkovic explained that “it is not about forgiving the debt, but momentarily freezing all the obligations that they had up until the signing of the agreement”.

The representative of the community of Berkove, Andrea Banjac expressed satisfaction towards the agreement, stating that the community will strive to pay off any debts they have towards KEK.

“Even though we live in hard economic conditions, we will do the impossible and pay the obligations that we are charged from now on,” he said.    

Over 1000 Serbs have returned to the municipality of Kline since the end of the conflict.

(Reported by Shega A’Mula)



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