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Tanjug - News in Brief -- Kosovo and Metohija
DEP:KOSOVO-RECOGNITION-AHREN
RECOGNITION NOT EXPRESSION OF HOSTILITY TOWARDS SERBIA, AHER
*27.2.2008 12:44 VIENNA, (Tanjug)* - The recognition of Kosovo is not an
expression of hostility towards Serbia, Irish Prime Minister Bertie
Ahern said in Vienna on Wednesday.
DEP:US-PRESS-JEREMIC
JEREMIC: PATH FORWARD - COMPROMISE SOLUTION FOR KOSOVO
*27.2.2008 12:23 NEW YORK, (Tanjug)* - Serbian Foreign Minister Vuk
Jeremic assessed on Wednesday that the recognition of the unilaterally
proclaimed Kosovo independence represented a legalisation of the
province's secession from Serbia, while the path forward was in unity
and the reaching of a compromise solution to the future status of Kosovo.
DEP:KOSOVO-MINISTERS-SERBS
TWO SERB MINISTERS FREEZE POSTS IN KOSOVO GOVERNMENT
*27.2.2008 12:04 PRISTINA, (Tanjug)* - Ministers Nenad Rasic for labor
and social issues and Boban Stankovic for return and communities with
the interim government of Kosovo and Metohija have frozen their posts
because of the unilateral proclamation of the independence of Kosovo,
the Albanian-language Pristina daily Infopress said on Wednesday.
DEP:SERBIA-KOSOVO-CASEY
CASEY: US WANTS GOOD RELATIONS WITH SERBIA
*27.2.2008 11:25 WASHINGTON, (Tanjug)* - United States (US) State
Department Deputy Spokesman Tom Casey has said that the US wants good
relations with Serbia, as a European country of key importance for the
stability of the Balkans, but reiterated that the US stand on Kosovo is
clear and consistent, and that the resolving of the status of this
province is a consequence of the disintegration of the former Yugoslavia.
DEP:AUSTRIA-KOSOVO-ASYLUMSEEKERS
KOSOVO INDEPENDENCE TO CAUSE CHANGES FOR ASYLUM SEEKERS
*27.2.2008 11:24 VIENNA, (Tanjug)* - Austria's recognition of Kosovo
might have consequences for the asylum seekers from the southern Serbian
province that live in Austria.
DEP:KMITROVICA-JUDICIARY-PROTEST
SERBS IN KOSOVSKA MITROVICA CONTINUE PROTESTS
*27.2.2008 10:26 KOSOVSKA MITROVICA, (Tanjug)* - Some 100 Serbs
continued their protest on Wednesday as well, and gathered outside the
District and the Municipal Court in the northern part of Kosovska
Mitrovica demanding to return to their jobs and that these two Courts be
returned under the jurisdiction of the Serbia Ministry of Justice.
DEP:KOSOVO-TRAJKOVIC-B92
NEW PRESSURE ON SERBS WOULD LEAD TO THEIR LEAVING KOSOVO
*27.2.2008 10:01 BELGRADE, (Tanjug)* - Serb National Council of Kosovo
and Metohija Executive Committee President Rada Trajkovic on Tuesday
evening expressed hope that the international community would not use
pressure on the local Serbs to accept the ethnic Albanian institutions,
because that would induce them all to leave the southern Serbian province.
DEP:EU-KOSOVO-MONTENEGRO
VUJANOVIC: MONTENEGRO HAS NO REASON TO MAKE HASTE
*27.2.2008 9:48 BRUSSELS, (Tanjug)* - Montenegrin President Filip
Vujanovic said in Brussels on Tuesday, following his meeting with
European Enlargement Commissioner Olli Rehn, that Podgorica had no
reason to make haste in reaching a decision on Kosovo status.
