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October 05,
2003
ERP KIM Newsletter
05-10-03
ELDERLY SERB
WOMAN SHOT BY ETHNIC ALBANIAN WHO OCCUPIED HER HOUSE
CONTENTS:
  ELDERLY
SERB WOMAN SHOT IN CENTRAL GNJILANE
Sofijana Jovanovic, a 72 year-old
Serb woman, was shot today in central Gnjilane when an ethnic Albanian who
had illegally moved into her house opened fire on her, Serb sources from
Kosovsko Pomoravlje told "Beta".
 WOUNDED
SERB WOMAN STABLE AFTER SURGERY
Sofijana
Jovanovic, an elderly Serb woman shot today in the yard of her house in
Gnjilane, has undergone surgery in Pristina Hospital and is now feeling
well, Kosovo parliament MP Vesna Jovanovic told "Beta".
SNC:
SERB REPRESENTATIVES FROM KOSOVO IN BELGRADE DELEGATION
The Serb National Council of Kosovo
and Metohija asked today that representatives from the Province be
included in future dialogue in the Belgrade delegation, emphasizing that
Kosovo Albanians and Serbs do not have the same platform with respect to
Kosovo.
FORMER
US, UN OFFICIALS MEET SCG PRESIDENT OVER KOSOVO
President Svetozar Marovic of
Serbia-Montenegro Friday stressed the need for dialogue and finding a
European solution for Kosovo, after meeting top former US and UN officials
for Yugoslavia and the UN-administered province.
MILORAD
TODOROVIC HEADS KOSOVO SERBS IN BELGRADE-PRISTINA TALKS
The Povratak
Coalition Presidency decided that Kosovo-Metohija minister in charge of
coordinating the repatriation Milorad Todorovic represent Serbs in the
Pristina delegation in the forthcoming Belgrade-Pristina dialogue
scheduled for Oct 14 in Vienna.
INET
- FLASH NEWS FROM KOSOVO AND METOHIJA
PERPETRATORS OF GORAZDEVAC MASSACRE STILL NOT ARRESTED - DAY 52...
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ELDERLY
SERB WOMAN SHOT IN CENTRAL GNJILANE
Sofijana Jovanovic, a 72
year-old Serb woman, was shot today in central Gnjilane when an ethnic
Albanian who had illegally moved into her house opened fire on her, Serb
sources from Kosovsko Pomoravlje told "Beta".
TOP
Beta
News Agency, Belgrade
October 4, 2003
Elderly Serb woman shot in central Gnjilane
GNJILANE - Sofijana Jovanovic, a 72 year-old Serb woman, was shot today in
central Gnjilane when an ethnic Albanian who had illegally moved into her
house opened fire on her, Serb sources from Kosovsko Pomoravlje told
"Beta".
After being hit with two bullets in the stomach and leg, she was
transferred to Pristina Hospital. "Beta's" sources indicated she is in
critical condition.
Sofijana Jovanovic was wounded at approximately 10,30 hours when she
appeared at her house in Gnjilane, which she had not visited for several
years.
According to a decision by the Gnjilane court, the Albanian man who had
usurped Jovanovices house was supposed to have vacated it with his family
today.
However, he refused to leave the house and after a brief altercation, he
opened fire of Sofijana Jovanovic.
The police arrested the Albanian man who had shot the Serb elderly woman.
Central Gnjilane, where Sofijana Jovanovic's house and the Serbian
Orthodox church are located, has been sealed off by strong police forces.
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WOUNDED SERB WOMAN STABLE AFTER SURGERY
Sofijana
Jovanovic, an elderly Serb woman shot today in the yard of her house in
Gnjilane, has undergone surgery in Pristina Hospital and is now feeling
well, Kosovo parliament MP Vesna Jovanovic told "Beta".
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PRISTINA - Sofijana Jovanovic, an elderly Serb woman shot today in the
yard of her house in Gnjilane, has undergone surgery in Pristina Hospital
and is now feeling well, Kosovo parliament MP Vesna Jovanovic told "Beta".
Vesna Jovanovic indicated that she visited the wounded elderly woman after
surgical intervention for a stomach wound and that, if Pristina Hospital
physicians agree, she would be transferred to Kosovska Mitrovica Hospital
for further treatment.
Sofijana Jovanovic, who is also known in Gnjilane under the last name of
Peric, was targeted by an Albanian man named Kadrush from Donji Livoc, who
was supposed to have vacated her house which he was illegally occupying
after a decision by the Gnjilane court.
After a short altercation the Albanian man shot the elderly woman with two
bullets in the stomach and the leg. He was soon arrested after police and
KFOR surrounded central Gnjilane
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SNC
KIM: SERB REPRESENTATIVES FROM KOSOVO IN BELGRADE DELEGATION
The Serb
National Council of Kosovo and Metohija asked today that representatives
from the Province be included in future dialogue in the Belgrade
delegation, emphasizing that Kosovo Albanians and Serbs do not have the
same platform with respect to Kosovo.
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GRACANICA - The Serb National Council of Kosovo and Metohija asked today
that representatives from the Province be included in future dialogue in
the Belgrade delegation, emphasizing that Kosovo Albanians and Serbs do
not have the same platform with respect to Kosovo.
"We cannot and do not want to be a part of the Pristina delegation for the
simple reason that it represents dissatisfied citizens of this state, the
Kosovo Albanians. Their goals and our goals are not the same," the SNC
said in a statement issued last week in Gracanica.
Members of the SNC KIM state that "they already have a state, Serbia; a
capital, Belgrade; and a government which they elected into office."
"We cannot and do not want to sit on the other side [of the table] in
talks with representatives of our state," said the members of the SNC
categorically at today's meeting, which was also attended by officials of
the SNC of Northern Kosovo, Milan Ivanovic, Marko Jaksic and Nebojsa
Jovic.
The Council is asking that in future dialogue "the starting point should
be the status of the province prior to armed conflicts, not the present
situation which is the result of the ethnic cleansing of Serbs [from the
Province]."
The SNC KIM requests the urgent mapping of a strategy for the return of
Serbs and Serbian institutions to Kosovo and Metohija as guaranteed by
UNSC Res. 1244 and also confirmed by the Serbian Parliament's Declaration
on Kosovo and Metohija, and the Memorandum on Kosovo and Metohija of the
Serbian Orthodox Church.
The SNC KIM expressed its concern due to the progressive deterioration of
the security situation in Kosovo in the past several months, listing the
murder of the three members of the Stolic family in Obilic, the murder of
two children and the wounding of other children in Gorazdevac, the murder
of a Serb teacher in Cernica, and other instances of violence against
Serbs.
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FORMER TOP
US, UN OFFICIALS MEET SERBIA-MONTENEGRO PRESIDENT OVER KOSOVO
President Svetozar
Marovic of Serbia-Montenegro Friday stressed the need for dialogue and
finding a European solution for Kosovo, after meeting top former US and UN
officials for Yugoslavia and the UN-administered province.
TOP
AGENCE
FRANCE PRESSE
Friday, 03-Oct-2003 3:10PM
BELGRADE, Oct 3 (AFP) - President Svetozar Marovic of Serbia-Montenegro
Friday stressed the need for dialogue and finding a European solution for
Kosovo, after meeting top former US and UN officials for Yugoslavia and
the UN-administered province.
The only pre-condition for dialogue between Belgrade and Pristina was
establishing a "European perspective" for the region, Marovic said in a
statement quoted by Tanjug news agency, 10 days before the two sides are
to hold their first talks since the 1999 NATO air war.
Marovic issued his comments after discussions in Belgrade with Richard
Holbrooke, the former US chief negotiator for Yugoslavia, and Bernard
Kouchner, the ex-UN administrator for Kosovo and former French health
minister.
The US and French officials later met Serb Deputy Prime Minister Nebojsa
Covic who called on them to exert their authority in getting Kosovo
Albanians to begin talks with Belgrade authorities.
"We are determined to find solutions by way of dialogue with the help of
the international community," Covic said.
Discussions in Vienna, which get under way on October 14, will focus on
missing persons, the return of refugees, energy and transport, more than
four years after the end of the war sparked by a Serb assault on the
ethnic Albanian majority in the province.
COVIC, HOLBROOKE, KOUCHNER CONDEMN VIOLENCE AGAINST KOSOVO SERBS, SUPPORT
BELGRADE-PRISTINA DIALOGUE
http://www.serbia.sr.gov.yu/news/2003-10/03/331282.html
SERBIAN GOVERNMENT
Covic, Holbrooke, Kouchner condemn violence against Kosovo Serbs, support
Belgrade-Pristina dialogue
Belgrade, Oct 3, 2003 - Serbian Deputy Prime Minister and Coordinating
Centre for Kosovo-Metohija Nebojsa Covic, former US Ambassador to the UN
Richard Holbrooke and former UN special envoy to Kosovo Bernard Kouchner
met in Belgrade on Friday to discuss situation in Kosovo-Metohija. The
three officials condemned violence against Kosovo Serbs and gave their
support for the start of Belgrade-Pristina dialogue, scheduled for Oct 14
Despite a difference of opinions over the situation in the province, the
international community is determined to solve problems in Kosovo-Metohija
through a dialogue, said Covic following the meeting.
The Deputy Prime Minister also called on Holbrooke and Kouchner to urge
Kosovo Albanians to accept the dialogue with Belgrade and stop violence
against Serbs in the province.
The democratic authorities in Belgrade support to the so-called "standards
before status" approach prior to discussing the final status of
Kosovo-Metohija, said Covic, adding that Belgrade will not respond to
provocation or strain relations with Pristina.
Welcoming the announced dialogue on the Belgrade-Pristina line, Kouchner
said he will visit Pristina with Holbrooke to call for putting an end to
violence and murders in the province.
Holbrooke said that the meeting also focused on the position of Kosovo
Serbs and strongly condemned murders and violence against the Serb
population in the province. The former US Ambassador to the UN also gave
his support to what he called free and democratic Serbian government.
TOP
MILORAD TODOROVIC HEADS KOSOVO SERBS IN BELGRADE-PRISTINA TALKS
The Povratak Coalition Presidency decided that Kosovo-Metohija minister in
charge of coordinating the repatriation Milorad Todorovic represent Serbs
in the Pristina delegation in the forthcoming Belgrade-Pristina dialogue
scheduled for Oct 14 in Vienna.
TOP
http://www.serbia.sr.gov.yu/news/2003-10/03/331274.html
SERBIAN GOVERNMENT
Oct 2 - The Povratak Coalition Presidency decided that Kosovo-Metohija
minister in charge of coordinating the repatriation Milorad Todorovic
represent Serbs in the Pristina delegation in the forthcoming
Belgrade-Pristina dialogue scheduled for Oct 14 in Vienna.
Serbian Minister of Justice Vladan Batic said that Kosovo Serbs might be
part of the Belgrade delegation as well. That will depend on the number of
delegates, he said.
He also said that the starting point and the basis that Belgrade will
stick to is the Serbian parliament's Declaration on Kosovo-Metohija,
http://www.serbia.sr.gov.yu/g/documents/declaration_kosovo1208.doc
approved also by the Serbia-Montenegro' parliament.
The Serbian government will appoint members of the Belgrade delegation for
the talks.
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INET NEWS
FROM KOSOVO AND METOHIJA
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www.inet.co.yu
I*Net News, Belgrade
KOSOVO AND METOHIJA NEWS
Friday 03 October 2003
20:20 Serbian deputy premier and Coordinating Center for Kosovo and
Metohija head Nebojsa Covic and the former UN special rapporteur for human
rights in the former Yugoslavia Jerzy Dienstbier agreed today in Belgrade
that in Serbia and Montenegro conditions have been achieved for seeking a
democratic solution to the problems in the southern Serbian province.
20:00 Serbia-Montenegro deputy speaker Milorad Drljevic stated today in
Geneva that Belgrade expects the dialogue with Pristina to result in
solutions that will contribute to the normalization of the daily life of
all residents of Kosovo, "especially improvement of security for minority
peoples" who "are still exposed to attacks and pressure" in the Province.
19:40 Claiming "insufficient preparedness," the Kosovo Albanians are
seeking the postponement of negotiations with the Serbian government under
the auspices of the international community and scheduled to begin on
October 14 in Vienna, AFP reported.
19:20 Six persons were arraigned before the District Court in Vranje, four
of them members of the multiethnic police in southern Serbia, under
suspicion of murdering Serbian security intelligence agent Server Fazliu
[an ethnic Albanian] in February of this year in Bujanovac.
14:00 Departing KFOR commander Italian general Fabio Mini will formally
transfer duties today in Pristina to German general Holger Kammerhoff, who
will command multinational international military forces in Kosovo for the
next year.
13:40 The dialogue between Belgrade and Pristina will begin on October 14
in Vienna regardless of the decision on the matter made by the Kosovo
parliament, said UNMIK chief Harri Holkeri on Thursday in Berlin.
13:20 EU official Stefan Lene (sp?) said in Pristina that postponing the
dialogue with Belgrade would be dangerous for both sides and called on
Kosovo leaders to reach a consensus for the beginning of talks on October
14 in Vienna.
12:40 Former US ambassador to the UN Richard Holbrooke and former UNMIK
chief Bernard Kouchner advised on Thursday at a joint press conference in
Sarajevo that there would be no more killing in Kosovo, no matter what its
final status will be.
12:00 Yesterday the Kosovo parliament postponed for one week its debate on
the beginning of dialogue on technical issues with Belgrade.
11:40 Last night the presidency of the Return Coalition (Povratak) decided
that Kosovo government repatriation co-minister Milorad Todorovic will be
proposed as the Serb representative in the Pristina delegation for
dialogue with Belgrade scheduled for October 14 in Vienna.
02:00 UNMIK police reported that four ethnic Albanians have been killed in
two separate incidents in Kosovo and Metohija in the past 24 hours.
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