While walking with his girlfriend along the Lab River Janackovic was attacked by two Albanians who stabbed him with a knife in the left shoulder and then fled.

Aritonovic said the youth was not in life-threatening danger and after receiving emergency assistance in the village was taken by the Kosovo Police Service and most probably transferred to the hospital in the north of Kosovska Mitrovica.

Priluzje is a Serb enclave and is separated from the Albanian village of Donje Stanovci by just the river.

Janackovic released from hospital

KOSOVSKA MITROVICA, August 5, 2006 (Tanjug) - Serb youth Ljubisa Janackovic (18 years) who was stabbed with a knife last night at about 7:00 p.m. in the village of Priluzje near Vucitrn in Kosovo has been released from hospital. 

Dr. Dragisa Milovic confirmed that after surgery Janackovic was not in life-threatening danger and was released on his own recognizance from the department of orthopedics in the hospital in northern Kosovska Mitrovica.

According to representatives of the Coordinating Center for Kosovo Janackovic was attacked while walking with his girlfriend along the Lab River by two Albanians who stabbed him with a knife in the left shoulder and then fled.

Representatives of the Kosovo police have yet to make a public statement regarding this incident.

Belgrade, 3 Aug. (Radio Srbija i Crna Gora) – “Belgrade authorities decisively oppose to the planned census of the Kosovo population, because such an act can only be taken by sovereign states and it is considered legalization of ethnic cleansing”, stated the Chief of the Coordination Center for Kosovo and Metohija Sanda Raskovic – Ivic. The stance of Belgrade authorities is; there is no single reason for census of the province’s population, noted Mrs. Ivic and pointed that the goal of the interim institutions is to show that an insignificant number of Serbs currently live in the province. Since the international governing of the province was established in 1999, at least 230,000 Serbs and other minorities left Kosovo, and that is the reason why it is impossible to organize a census that would correspond to the real situation, stressed Mrs. Raskovic-Ivic.

Belgrade, 3 Aug. (Beta) – The spokesperson of the Serbian War Crimes Court Mr. Bruno Vekaric stated Thursday, an investigation into two former KLA members started, indicted for committing war crimes against Serbs in Orahovac in 1999.

Mr. Vekaric stated to ‘Beta’ news agency that of the two indicted Albanians, one is accessible to Serbian investigative organizations.

According to Mr. Vekaric, the indicted KLA members, took three Serbs from their family houses in Orahovac and severely beat them up on 16th of June, 1999, from which one of the victims died. Mr Vekaric said that the second man managed to escape, while the third is still missing. As he noted, on the18th of June, 1999, another Serb from Orahovac was taken to a place called Prnjaca and executed.

Envoys Urge Serbs, Albanians To Quell North Kosovo Tensions

PRISTINA, Serbia (AP)--International envoys overseeing talks on Kosovo's future Friday urged ethnic Albanians and Serbs to defuse tensions in the province's troubled north.

Diplomats from the so-called "contact group" - the U.S., the U.K., Germany, France, Italy and Russia - expressed concern about the situation in northern Kosovo, a Serb-dominated region in the predominantly ethnic Albanian province.

Local Serbian officials in northern Kosovo recently cut off contact with provincial institutions dominated by the ethnic Albanians following a number of violent incidents they blamed on ethnic Albanians.

Both the North Atlantic Treaty Organization and the U.N. increased their presence in the area to quell fears of violence.

International officials fear enmities might flare up between the two communities as talks on the province's future status enter a critical phase.

"Both Belgrade and Pristina should take immediate steps to reduce tensions in northern Kosovo, particularly to encourage responsible leadership and build confidence among communities," the group said in a statement.

Kosovo has been under U.N. administration since 1999, when NATO launched a campaign to stop a Serb crackdown on ethnic Albanians fighting for Kosovo's independence.

Talks to determine Kosovo's future are under way in Austria, with the next round starting Aug. 7.

Ethnic Albanians are pushing for independence, but Serbs want to keep Kosovo - an area Serbs consider their historic heartland - part of Serbia.

The contact group has set guidelines for the talks that reject returning to Belgrade's full control, its partition, or unification with another country in the region. It also has said the solution should be acceptable to Kosovo's people.

Western envoys are aiming for an agreement by the end of the year that at least would ensure the well-being of Kosovo's minorities, particularly Serbs.

U.N. officials recently proposed having a provisional international body supervise the northern Serb sector and integrate it into Kosovo's institutions once the status issue has been resolved.

The group pledged increased international engagement in Kosovo's north and called for the U.N.-run talks to include a solution for the ethnically divided town of Kosovska Mitrovica.