http://www.focus-fen.net/index.php?catid=144&newsid=85243&ch=0 Focus News Agency (Bulgaria) March 27, 2006 Economic Situation in Kosovo Catastrophic Belgrade - "The Serbian energy sector is at all times depending on Kosovo coals, since this is part of Serbian territory and its wealth", Nenad Popovic, leader of the economic team of the Serbian cabinet for Kosovo and Southern Serbia, has said cited by the Serbian Blic newspaper. The platform for the talks on the final status of Kosovo is in preparation and an economic team has been formed aiming to prepare a strategy for a long-term economic development of Southern Serbia and the Serbian community in Kosovo. It was a mistake, according to him, that everyone is discussing the status talks and they forget that a process of privatization is going on, that there was not a single day without electricity cuts, and that workers are losing their jobs. The economic situation in Kosovo is disastrous, Popovic stated. The province has the highest unemployment level in Europe 90% among the members of the Serbian community in the province, and up to 70% in the Albanian community in 2005. Serbian News Network - SNN [email protected] http://www.antic.org/
