Tanjug - News in Brief -- Kosovo and Metohija
DEP:GREECE-KOSOVO
GREECE TO TAKE DECISION ON KOSOVO SOME TIME IN FUTURE
*27.2.2008 19:06 ATHENS, (Tanjug)* - Greece will not take any decision
for the time being on potential recognition of the unilateral
declaration of Kosovo independence, but after consideration of all
aspects of that issue, Foreign Ministry spokesman George Koumoutsakos
said Wednesday.
DEP:EU-KOSOVO-GROUP
FEITH AT FORMATION OF KOSOVO INTERNATIONAL STEERING GROUP
*27.2.2008 17:50 BRUSSELS, (Tanug)* - EU High Representative for Kosovo
Pieter Feith will attend the formation of the International Steering
Group (ISG) in Vienna on Thursday, the spokesperson of the EU Foreign
Policy and Security Chief Javier Solana - Cristina Gallach said in
Brussels on Wednesday.
DEP:KOSOVO-COURT-UNMIK
KAKUK: RETURN TO COURTS IS 'POLITICAL ISSUE'
*27.2.2008 17:40 KOSOVSKA MITROVICA, (Tanjug)* - UNMIK spokesman Georgy
Kakuk on Wednesday stated that the request by the Serb employees of the
justice organs in Kosovska Mitrovica to return to their posts is a
political issue.
DEP:RUSSIA-KOSOVO-UN
CHURKIN: SITUATION IN KOSOVO IS RATHER DANGEROUS
*27.2.2008 17:06 MOSCOW, (Tanjug)* - Permanent Representative of the
Russian Federation to the United Nations Vitaly Churkin on Wednesday
said that the situation in Kosovo and Metohija is very dangerous and tense.
DEP:GRACANICA-LJAJIC-VISIT
STATE SHOUD HELP KOSOVO SERBS, LJAJIC
*27.2.2008 17:05 GRACANICA, (Tanjug)* - Serbian Labour and Social Policy
Minister Rasim Ljajic said Wednesday that Serbia should implement
various development programs to help the Serbs remain and survive in
Kosovo and Metohija.
DEP:SLOVENIA-KOSOVO-TIRK
SLOVENIA NEEDS CONCENSUS ON KOSOVO, TIRK
*27.2.2008 16:38 BUDAPEST, (Tanjug)* - Slovenian President Danilo Tirk
has said that the Slovenian government supports the independence of
Kosovo, but that the final decision will be made by the country's
parliament.
DEP:FRANCE-KOSOVO-AMBASSADOR
KOSOVSKA MITROVICA SHOULD REMAIN IN SERBIA, FROMENT-MEURICE
*27.2.2008 16:30 PARIS, (Tanjug)* - French diplomat Henri
Froment-Meurice told Le Figaro daily on Wednesday that Kosovska
Mitrovica should be ''annexed'' to Serbia and that UNESCO should finance
the transfer of Serb monasteries and churches from Kosovo and Metohija
to where the Serbs want.
DEP:KOSOVO-CHECKPOINTS-UNMIK
KAKUK: NO CUSTOMS DUE TO RECONSTRUCTION OF KPS FACILITIES
*27.2.2008 16:24 LEPOSAVIC, (Tanjug)* - UNMIK spokesman Georgy Kakuk on
Wednesday confirmed that the infrstructure destroyed during the protests
staged by Kosovo Serbs at the Brnjak and Jarinje checkpoints several
days ago is under construction.
DEP:KOSMET-STUDENTS-PROTEST
STUDENTS PROTEST IN MITROVICA
*27.2.2008 15:59 KOSOVSKA MITROVICA, (Tanjug)* - Students of the
Pristina University, which has been relocated to Kosovska Mitrovica,
continued peaceful protests on Wednesday against the unilaterally
declared independence of Kosovo and Metohija, receiving the backing of
Serbian Premier Vojislav Kostunica.
DEP:KOSOVO-REACTION-VARADI
VARADI: HUNGARY SHOULD NOT RUSH WITH RECOGNITION OF KOSOVO
*27.2.2008 15:52 BUDAPEST, (Tanjug)* - Expert on international law and
former Yugoslav minister for minorities Tibor Varadi has stated that
Hungary should not rush with recognition of Kosovo's independence
because of its minority in the neighboring countries and good neighborly
relations with Serbia.
DEP:AUSTRIA-ISR-KOSOVO
FIRST MEETING OF INTERNATIONAL STEERING GROUP FOR KOSOVO
*27.2.2008 15:44 VIENNA, (Tanjug)* - The International Steering Group
(ISR) for Kosovo will meet for the first time in Vienna, Austria on
Thursday, the Austrian Foreign Ministry confirmed on Wednesday.
DEP:KOSOVO-ECONOMY-IVANOVIC
ECONOMIC SITUATION IN KOSOVO DISASTROUS, O.IVANOVIC
*27.2.2008 15:19 KRAGUJEVAC, (Tanjug)* - The economic situation in
Kosovo and Metohija is disastrous because almost nothing has been
manufactured over the past nine years, while one half of the population
is unemployed, Social Democratic Party Kosovo branch head Oliver
Ivanovic said on Wednesday.
DEP:KMITROVICA-IVANOVIC-RUSSIANS
SNV CALLS ON RUSSIA TO RETURN SOLDIERS TO KFOR
*27.2.2008 15:14 KOSOVSKA MITROVICA, (Tanjug)* - The Serb National
Council of Northern Kosovo-Metohija called on Russia to return its
soldiers to the southern Serbian province, Council President Milan
Ivanovic said on Wednesday.
DEP:USA-KOSOVO-DEBATE
DIFFERENT STANDS ON UNILATERAL INDEPENDENCE OF KOSOVO
*27.2.2008 15:13 WASHINGTON, (Tanjug)* - In a debate on Kosovo at the
Washington Institute for Peace US Diplomat Frank Wisner said that the
United States and European countries would not nullify the unilateral
declaration of Kosovo's independence while Nixon Center President
Dimitri Simes assessed that international law was violated.
DEP:KMITROVICA-PROTEST-KOSTUNICA
SERBIAN PRIME MINISTER SUPPORTS STUDENTS IN MITROVICA
*27.2.2008 14:40 KOSOVSKA MITROVICA, (Tanjug)* - Serbian Prime Minister
Vojislav Kostunica on Wednesday told students who have been protesting
for the 10th day in a row in Kosovska Mitrovica against the unilateral
declaration of independence of the southern Serbian province that all of
Serbia was proud of them.
