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June 27, 2003 ERP KIM Newsletter 27-06-03 ORTHODOX CHURCH IN PRISTINA STONED WHILE NATO LEADERSHIP APPEALS FOR TOLERANCE CONTENTS: This newsletter is available on our
ERP KIM Web-site: SERBIAN ORTHODOX CHURCH IN PRISTINA STONED AGAIN BY ALBANIAN HOOLIGANS ERPKIM INFO
SERVICE The incident occurred shortly after 21.00 and this is the second attack of this kind in the last month and the sixth in this year. The stoning of St. Nicholas church occurred in the same day when NATO leadership appealed on Kosovo Albanians to show more tolerance and readiness for building multiethnic society. Serbian Orthodox Diocese of Raska and Prizren strongly condemns this latest attack and requests from UNMIK police to arrest the perpertrators. So far not a single attacker on 112 destroyed or damaged Serbian Orthodox churches has been brought to justice. RELATED TEXT: KOSOVO: NO PROTECTION IN CAPITAL FOR ATTACKED ORTHODOX CHURCH AND PRIEST - FORUM 18, OSLO
PATRIARCH PAVLE IN VISIT TO KOSOVO AND METOHIJA
ERPKIM INFO SERVICE In the afternoon of June 25 His Holiness Patriarch Pavle escorted by UNMIK police visited Gracanica monastery where he was greeted by Bishop Artemije, his clergy and Gracanica Monastery nuns. Patriarch will stay several following days in Kosovo and Metohija in order to attend VIDOVDAN celebrations and officiate the traditional Vidovdan Liturgy and the Memorial Service to the Kosovo Battle knights. In his speech to the gathered faithful people the Patriarch appealed that they remain faithful to Christ and so that the Lord might remain faithful to us. Bishop Artemije informed His Holiness about continuation of attacks on the Serbian Orthodox Chruch and its people in Kosovo and Metohija.
Patriarch Pavle is expected to
visit several Serbian Orthodox monasteries during his stay in Kosovo and
will travel around Kosovo escorted by UNMIK police.
STATE UNION DELEGATION REQUESTS EURO DEBATE ON KOSOVO SITUATION BETA
NEWS AGENCY
NATO
SECRETARY-GENERAL: MULTIETHNICITY MUST BE ACHIEVED B92
BELGRADE NO RESULTS IN KOSOVO REPATRIATION BETA NEWS
AGENCY KOSOVO ALBANIAN MAN SUSPECTED OF ARSON ATTACKS ON SERB APARTMENTS IN UROSEVAC ARRESTED UNMIK
Police Barry FLETCHER KOSOVO ALBANIAN MAN ARRESTED FOR TERRORISM AND RECRUTING ACTIVITIES FOR THE "ANA" UNMIK
Police Derek CHAPPELL
Barry FLETCHER OTHER NEWS FROM KOSOVO AND METOHIJA: LJILJANA BELOS (KCC) - ATTACKS ON KOSOVO SERBS PLANNED AND ORGANIZED FROM A SINGLE CENTER The head of the Sector for the Return of Internally Displaced Persons with the Coordination Centre for Kosovo-Metohija, Ljiljana Belos, said that each attack on Serbs in Kosmet had been planned and organized from a single centre, in order that the return of displaced persons be prevented. Attacks are mounted in exactly those places to which we have announced a return. The aim of those attacks, mounted by extremists, is to prevent Serbs from returning to Kosovo, Belos told BETA. She assessed that there had been no progress whatsoever in the sphere of human rights in Kosment, and especially in the case of the return of displaced persons and she accused UNMIK of having not done anything to create conditions for the return of displaced persons to Kosovo. NICK BURNS - US WOULD MEDIATE IN DIALOGUE BETWEEN BELGRADE AND PRISTINA US Deputy Ambassador in NATO Nick Barnes said in Pristina that the US would mediate in dialogue between Belgrade and Pristina and stressed that the State Department and NATO fully supported the initiative launched during the Thessaloniki Summit - that Belgrade and Pristina should have direct negotiations. He emphasized that the US sould continue to render military and civilian aid to Kosovo and added that Kosovo must be a multi-ethnic society and that the US would fully contribute to that. The leader of the Democratic Party of Kosovo, Hashim Tachi, told a press conference that he was ready to go and have talks in Belgrade with any official and added he hoped that dialogue between Pristina and Belgrade, with the mediation of the international community, would commence soon, the media reports. COE SPEAKER, PETER SCHNEIDER, SUPPORS REQUEST OF SERBIA-MONTENEGRO TO HAVE THE ISUE OF THE BREACH OF HUMAN RIGHTS IN KOSOVO RAISED AT COUNCIL OF EUROPE The speaker of the Council of Europe_s Parliamentary Assembly, Peter Schieder, supported the request conveyed to him by the permanent delegation of Serbia and Montenegro to have the question of the breach of human rights in Kosovo raised, assessing that the issue must be discussed by all means. Schieder_s assessment was quoted in Strasbourg by MP Radoje Prica. Prica said that in the request the judicial system in Kosovo-Metohija is analyzed in detail and it is pointed to the fact that the judiciary in Kosmet is not functioning at all. COVIC - BELGRADE-PRISTINA TALKS TO BEGIN ONLY WHEN STEINER LEAVES KOSOVO Belgrade-Pristina talks may begin only when new UNMIK head will arrive in Kosmet, stated Serbian Deputy Prime Minister Nebojsa Covic, after the talks in Belgrade with Jessen Peterson, the president of the INITIATIVE FOR MIGRATIONS, ASYLUM AND REFUGEES of the Stability Pact of Southeastern Europe. Covic said that no progress had been recorded in the return of displaced persons to Kosmet. Peterson assessed that Western Balkan countries could join the EU, providing that the issue of the return of refugees would be resolved. SERBIA-MONTENEGRO THE MOST AFFECTED COUNTRY OF EUROPE BY REFUGEES AND DISPLACED PERSONS Dusanka Divjak-Tomic, the representative of Serbia and Montenegro Permanent Mission to the UN in Geneva, pointed out that the state union was the most affected country in Europe when refugees and displaced persons were at issue. At the session of the Standing Committee of the UN High Commissioner for Refugees in Geneva, Tomic assessed that the UNHCR had not engaged in an appropriate way in the resolving of the problem of 350 thousand refugees from Croatia and B/H and 250 thousand displaced persons from Kosmet. DANAS: INITIATIVE TO ESTABLISH PUBLIC PROSECUTOR FOR HUMAN RIGHTS AT THE EU CORUT AT STRASBURG The daily
DANAS writes also that the European Council launched initiative whereby
the position of the public prosecutor for human rights at the European
Court in Strasburg would be established. The role of the prosecutor would
be to assist bringing before justice all those in breach of human rights
in the so-called conflict zones such as Chechnya and Kosovo. Based on a
report by a Cypriot MP, president of the Committee for Human Rights will
be able to propose to the public prosecutor to bring such cases before the
Court. As for ethnic cleansing of non-Albanian population in Kosmet, it is
believed that only individuals will be brought before the court. Serbs in
Kosovo are being told not to lose hope and not to accept being expelled.
They should also insist on returning to their homes in the region, reports
the daily DANAS. ERP KIM
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Serbian Orthodox church of St. Nicholas in Pristina was stoned again yesterday
evening by Kosovo Albanian hooligans. Damage was made on the entrance door of the
church and several windows were broken on the church and the parish home.
STRASBOURG
-- Thursday -- A delegation of the Serbia-Montenegro Parliament has today
submitted a request for debate of the human rights situation in Kosovo to
the legal committee of the Council of Europe's Parliamentary Assembly in
Strasbourg. 