Verso la Grande Albania: 1--15 Dicembre 2003


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AVVERTENZE
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Come al solito, questa nostra rassegna sul Kosmet non ha pretesa di
completezza: le notizie qui riportate sono da considerare solo come
esempi delle informazioni negate alla pubblica opinione.

I precedenti "bollettini di guerra" dal Kosmet (da maggio 2002 in poi)
si possono recuperare partendo dalla URL:
http://it.groups.yahoo.com/group/crj-mailinglist/message/3005
che riporta anche gli avvenimenti di Novembre 2003.

In generale, un grande numero di articoli sui vari aspetti del regime
di terrore instaurato congiuntamente dalle "nostre" truppe occidentali
(KFOR) e dai neonazisti locali (UCK) si puo' trovare nel nostro
archivio:
http://it.groups.yahoo.com/group/crj-mailinglist/
Per un inquadramento storico del terrore nazista in Kosovo-Metohija
si vedano in particolare:
http://it.groups.yahoo.com/group/crj-mailinglist/message/1029
http://it.groups.yahoo.com/group/crj-mailinglist/message/1030
http://it.groups.yahoo.com/group/crj-mailinglist/message/2978
http://it.groups.yahoo.com/group/crj-mailinglist/message/2986
ed i collegamenti ivi contenuti.

Due SITI IN LINGUA ITALIANA dove trovare informazioni aggiornate
sulle violenze perpetrate giorno per giorno in Kosmet sono
http://www.ansa.it/balcani kosovo/kosovo.shtml (ANSA) e
http://www.osservatoriobalcani.it
Si tratta di due servizi professionali di informazione, di orientamento
istituzionale, con tutto quanto cio' comporta dal punto di vista della
interpretazione e presentazione degli avvenimenti.

Molti dei materiali che riportiamo nelle nostre rassegne provengono
dalle mailinglists:
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antinato@...
anti-imperialiste@...
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dal bollettino della chiesa ortodossa in Kosmet ERP KIM:
http://www.kosovo.com/erpkiminfo.html
e dalla rassegna curata da Babsi Jones per EXJU.ORG, che riporta
anche brevi testi riassuntivi in italiano - vedi ad esempio:
http://www.exju.org/comments/576_0_1_0_C/

Ulteriori informazioni si trovano infine sul sito curato dalla
chiesa serbo-ortodossa: http://www.kosovo.com

(a cura di A.M.)


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NOTIZIE
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PERICOLO-BOMBE ANCHE PER LE FORZE DI OCCUPAZIONE OCCIDENTALI

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http://www.rferl.org/newsline/2003/12/4-SEE/see-011203.asp

[Note: The US government site Radio Free Europe/Radio
Liberty spells the name of the Serbian province of
Kosovo as KosovA.]

Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty
December 1, 2003

NATO RESPONDS TO 'SPECIFIC THREAT' IN KOSOVA

A NATO spokesman told reporters in Prishtina on 28
November that KFOR "knows that a specific threat has
been made towards international organizations" in the
province, which is governed primarily by the UN
civilian administration (UNMIK) as a protectorate,
Reuters reported. KFOR and UNMIK said in a joint
statement that NATO-led troops have stepped up
security measures and that the precautions will remain
in effect until "the threat is assessed to have been
reduced." Unnamed "diplomatic sources" told the news
agency that the "specific threat" was directed against
UNMIK. Among the precautions taken were checks of cars
with foreign license plates. The statement referred to
"terrible recent events, not just in southeastern
Europe but elsewhere in the world." Several top
Kosovar leaders recently told "RFE/RL Newsline" in
Prishtina that an early resolution of the status
question is essential for improving the security
situation in Kosova. PM

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http://www.b92.net/english/news/
index.php?&nav_category=&nav_id=25775&order=priority&style=headlines
SRNA - December 1, 2003

Security stepped up in Kosovo

PRISTINA -- Monday – A concrete wall has been erected
around the United Nations headquarters in Kosovo in
response to attacks on UN facilities in Iraq.
International peacekeepers have also set up
checkpoints in Pristina near UN facilities and the
diplomatic offices of western countries.

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http://www.tanjug.co.yu/
Tanjug - December 1, 2003

KFOR, UNMIK specialists control-explode bomb in
Kosovska Mitrovica

17:00 KOSOVSKA MITROVICA , Dec 1 (Tanjug) - Special
forces of UNMIK police and KFOR control-exploded on
Monday a bomb in the northern part of Kosovska
Mitrovica, and the explosion caused windows to crack
in a nearby business.
The bomb was planted in the vicinity of a power
sub-station, only about fifty meters away from a
student dormitory in that town in southern Kosovo, and
also nearby is a highschool playground.

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KOSOVO: GOVERNATORE ONU SOSPENDE 12
DEL CORPO DI PROTEZIONE

(ANSA) - TIRANA, 3 DIC - Il governatore Onu del Kosovo, Harri
Holkeri, ha sospeso per sei mesi dal servizio dodici appartenenti al
Corpo di protezione del Kosovo (Tmk) per presunte ''attivita'
illegali''. La decisione e' stata fortemente criticata dal
comandante generale del Tmk Agim Ceku, che fu in passato capo
militare della guerriglia albanese (Uck) dalle cui ceneri e' nato il
corpo di protezione civile: ''E' un atto illegittimo che danneggia
fortemente la nostra immagine'' ha commentato. Holkeri non ha
fornito indicazioni sul tipo di attivita' illegale contestata ai 12
appartenenti al Tmk, ma ha assicurato che sul loro operato e' in
corso un'indagine della polizia. Il sospetto e' che siano stati
verificati legami fra i dodici indagati e l'Armata nazionale albanese
(Ana, o Aksh per gli albanesi), nuovo movimento di guerriglia
considerato dalla missione Onu in Kosovo come ''gruppo
terrorista''.(ANSA) BLL 03/12/2003 16:30

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http://www.rferl.org/newsline/2003/12/4-SEE/see-031203.asp

[The US federal government Radio Free Europe/Radio
Liberty operation, which coincidentally has just
announced it's ceasing broadcasting into seven nations
- Bulgaria, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Lithuania,
Latvia and Estonia - all seven of whom were nominated
for full NATO membership at last year's NATO Prague
Summit, prefers the spelling of the
internationally-recognized Serbian province of Kosovo
according to the orthographic requirements of Messrs
Thaci, Ceku, Haradinaj and Ahmeti, *surreptitious*
commanders of the very same Albanian National Army
that NATO and UNMIK insists doesn't exist.]

Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty
December 3, 2003

UN ADMINISTRATOR SUSPENDS 12 KOSOVA CIVILIAN CORPS MEMBERS

On 3 December, Harri Holkeri, who heads the UN's
civilian administration in Kosova (UNMIK), suspended
12 ethnic Albanian members of the civilian Kosova
Protection Corps (TMK) for six months while their
alleged links to the outlawed Albanian National Army
(AKSH) are investigated, RFE/RL's South Slavic and
Albanian Languages Service reported. Holkeri first
discussed the matter with TMK commander Agim Ceku, but
they reached no decision, Hina reported. Holkeri then
sought the support of Western diplomats in Prishtina.
PM

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http://www.b92.net/english/news/
index.php?&nav_category=&nav_id=25809&order=priority&style=headlines
Beta - December 3, 2003

Holkeri suspends Protection Corps officers

PRISTINA -- Wednesday – The chief UN diplomat in
Kosovo has suspended 12 members of the Kosovo
Protection Corps pending an investigation into
suspected links with an outlawed terrorist group.
The investigation concerns the bombing of a railway
bridge in northern Kosovo in April this year. The
Albanian National Army claimed responsibility, and was
subsequently branded a terrorist organisation by the
then head of the UN mission, Michael Steiner.
Steiner’s successor, Harri Holkeri, today suspended 12
members of the Protection Corps, a civil protection
unit formed by the UN from the disbanded Kosovo
Liberation Army. Two of the terrorists were killed in
the explosion on the bridge. It later emerged that one
of them was a member of the Protection Corps.
Corps commander Agim Ceku today dismissed the move as
“unacceptable.”

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http://www.tanjug.co.yu/
Tanjug - December 3, 2003

Ceku does not accept suspension of 12 KPC members

17:08 PRISTINA , Dec 3 (Tanjug) - The suspension on
Wednesday of 12 members of the Kosovo Protection Corps
(KPC) came after an investigation into the attempt to
destroy a bridge in northern Kosovo, said UNMIK chief
Harri Holkeri.
Holkeri added that the findings of the investigation
were sufficiently serious to entail a suspension of
KPC officers, the UN statement said, without
specifying the details of the accusation, AP news
agency reported.

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http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/BUZ343261.htm
Reuters - December 3, 2003

UN suspension move angers Kosovo ex-guerrillas
By Shaban Buza

PRISTINA, Serbia and Montenegro, Dec 3 (Reuters) -
Kosovo's U.N. governor on Wednesday suspended two
generals and 10 other officers of an ethnic
Albanian-dominated successor force to the guerrilla
Kosovo Liberation Army, angering ex-rebel chiefs.
Harri Holkeri, the Finnish head of the province's
U.N.-led administration, said he took the decision as
a result of its enquiry into a bomb attack in April on
a railway in a part of Kosovo populated mainly by
minority Serbs.
But the head of the civilian emergency Kosovo
Protection Corps (KPC), former guerrilla chief of
staff Agim Ceku, said there was no proof the suspended
officers were involved and made clear the move would
be ignored.
"This decision is unacceptable for us and as such will
not be taken into consideration," Ceku told reporters
after meeting Holkeri and other top Western officials
in Kosovo, which remains legally party of Serbia and
Montenegro.
It was the toughest action yet against members of the
3,000-strong KPC since it was set up four years ago,
replacing the rebel army that fought against Slobodan
Milosevic's forces in a conflict that ended with
NATO's 1999 bombing of Yugoslavia.
The corps was designed to provide a civilian role for
former rebels, tasked with humanitarian missions such
as reconstruction and disaster relief. Many
independence-seeking ethnic Albanians see it as a
nucleus of a future Kosovo army.
Holkeri did not give details of the enquiry into the
attack in northern Kosovo, in which two suspected
bombers were killed. A shadowy group called the
Albanian National Army (ANA) claimed responsibility.
But he said the findings "in respect of illegal
activities" were sufficiently serious to merit a
police investigation and a six-month suspension of the
officers pending its results.
"This is the approach taken by European institutions
when serious allegations are made against their
members," he said in a joint statement with the
commander of the NATO-led peacekeeping force in
Kosovo, German General Holger Kammerhoff.
The two suspended KPC generals, Nuredin Lushtaku and
Rrahman Rama, were top guerrilla commanders during the
war.
Holkeri said he counted on Ceku's full cooperation.
But Ceku said Holkeri had taken a wrong decision.
Five KPC officers were suspended in 2001 after they
appeared on a U.S. black list of people accused of
stoking Balkan instability.

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Da: Rick Rozoff
Oggetto: [yugoslaviainfo] Albanian National Army Bombers Get 6 Months
Paid Vacation For Kosovo Terror Act

http://www.un.org/apps/news/story.asp?NewsID=9057&Cr=kosovo&Cr1=

[All twelve culprits, including two so-called Kosovo
Protection Corps generals, will be paid out of the
budget of the United Nations Mission In Kosovo.]

UN News Centre
December 3, 2003

UN envoy to Kosovo orders suspension of 12 police
officers pending inquiry

3 December – The head of the United Nations Interim
Administration Mission in Kosovo (UNMIK) has ordered
that *12 Kosovo police officers be suspended, with
pay, for six months* while a police investigation
takes place into their role in the demolition of a
railway bridge in the northern Kosovo town of Loziste
in April.
Harri Holkeri, the Special Representative for Kosovo,
was not prejudging the investigation’s result or
presuming guilt, according to a joint statement by
UNMIK and KFOR, the multinational force in Kosovo,
that was issued today in Pristina.
But Mr. Holkeri said the initial findings against the
12 officers, all serving members of the Kosovo
Protection Corps (KPC), after a joint UNMIK-KFOR
inquiry were “sufficiently serious” to warrant both a
police investigation and the suspensions.
The statement said Mr. Holkeri and KFOR Commander
Holger Kammerhoff met the Commander of the KPC, Lt.
Gen. Agim Ceku, today to inform him of the
suspensions.
The statement added that Mr. Holkeri “recognized that,
with a few exceptions, the KPC members act
professionally and in keeping with the standards
expected of them…It is important to ensure that the
inquiry findings are followed up to protect the good
name of the KPC.”
Meanwhile, Mr. Holkeri, who is also the chairman of
the Task Force on Returns in Kosovo, said next year
would be critical for the return of people still
displaced after war. The Task Force is calling for
more financial support from within and outside Kosovo
so that it can carry out its work of assisting people
to move.
In another development, UNMIK’s Missing Persons Unit,
together with Kosovo’s Office on Missing Persons and
Forensics (OMPF) and the Serbia and Montenegro
authorities, have arranged for a group of bodies to be
transferred from Serbia to Kosovo tomorrow.
The transfer of mortal remains, identified by DNA
after they were exhumed from a mass grave at
Batajnica, will be completed following verification
procedures at a transfer facility near the
Serbia-Kosovo border.

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http://www.b92.net/english/news/
index.php?&nav_category=&nav_id=25839&order=priority&style=headlines
Beta - December 5, 2003

Kosovo Protection Corps accepts suspensions

PRISTINA -- Friday – Senior officers of the Kosovo
Protection Corps last night agreed to accept a
decision by UN administrators in the province to
suspend twelve of the corps members.
UNMIK chief Harri Holkeri on Wednesday suspended
twelve corps members pending an investigation into
links with the outlawed Albanian National Army.
A statement issued by the senior officers notes that
corps commander Agim Ceku has said he will resign over
the suspensions, but that that the officers, the
suspended members and Kosovo Prime Minister Bajram
Rexhepi were opposed to this.
The statement also asserts however that the decision
is unjust and that there is no evidence to support it.

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http://www.tanjug.co.yu/EYug.htm#Covic%20doubts%20UNMIK
Tanjug - December 9, 2003

Covic doubts UNMIK's good intentions

12:40 BELGRADE , Dec 9 (Tanjug) - Head of the
Kosovo-Metohija coordination centre Nebojsa Covic
voiced doubt about the good intentions of UNMIK to
carry out a true investigation against 12 suspended
officers of the Kosovo Protection Corps (KZS), who are
suspected of having ties with the illegal ethnic
Albanian National Army (ANA), the centre said in its
Tuesday statement.
"I am afraid that that will be just a farce and that
after an alleged investigation, the officers will be
acquitted of the charges," Covic said, proving such a
stand by the fact that Agim Ceku had been arrested,
and soon after that, set free.

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HASHIM THACI: IL TRIBUNALE DELL'AIA NON MI PROCESSERA' MAI

http://www.tanjug.co.yu/
Tanjug - December 4, 2003

KOSOVO-TACHI-INTERVIEW
I am innocent, Thaci

19:29 BONN , Dec 3 (Tanjug) - Democratic Party of
Kosovo leader and one of the leaders of the disbanded
Kosovo Liberation Army Hashim Thaci said he was not
afraid of the war crimes tribunal because he was
innocent, and that ethnic Albanians in the
investigation were reluctant to testify against war
crime suspects because of the inherited mentality, and
not because they were protecting their kinsmen.
In an interview to the Frankfurter Allgemaine Zeitung
Thaci said he was not afraid that the Tribunal would
issue an indictment against him, "because, I never
breached international law."

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UNMIK: "TUTTO A GONFIE VELE"

http://www.tanjug.co.yu/
Tanjug - December 4, 2003

UNMIK says its results are significant, Serbs disagree

17:42 GNJILANE , Dec 3 (Tanjug) - Representatives of
UNMIK in the region of Gnjilane told a news conference
on Wednesday that important results had been achieved
last year, but this was denied by local TV Silovo
journalist Jovan Simic, who described numerous data
from the report as "figments of imagination."
UN regional administrator Marcel Cintalan, regional
chief of UNMIK police Robert Richardson and KFOR
Brigadier General Jerry Beck pointed at the greater
freedom of movement of the population and stressed
that the number of peacekeepers in the region's seven
municipalities would not be reduced, despite the
withdrawal of fixed checkpoints from a number of
locations.

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MEMBRI DEL "CORPO DI PROTEZIONE" (UCK) ACCUSATI ANCHE DI SFRUTTAMENTO
DELLA PROSTITUZIONE

"Kosovo Protection Corps" Members Accused Also of White Slavery and
Smuggling

Epoka e Re, Kosovo daily in Albanian
Pristina, December 04, 2003

UNMIK administration made it known that the suspension of the 12
TMK members came after an investigations of the events that happened on
April near Zvecan. But according to the UNMIK spokesman they are also
accused of involvement in trafficking people and illegal trade.

UNMIK_s information official, told "Kosova Live" on Wednesday
that 12 TMK officers except that they are involved in the attack of the
bridge in Lozice, they are suspended for other illegal actions as well.
She added that the police will start with the investigation of the
cases as soon as they receive the suspension letters from the
chief-administrator Holkeri.
In a joint communication released by UNMIK with KFOR and the
Quint state representatives in Kosovo, it pointed out that Harry
Holkeri has informed TMK Commander, lieutenant general Agim Ceku, that
as a result of the joint investigation between UNMIK and KFOR he
decided that the findings against the 12 TMK officers related to the
illegal activities justifies police investigations.

Without prejudging the results of these investigations or without
presupposing their guilt, he decided that the conclusions were very
serious and that deserves and justifies the suspension of 12 TMK
officers, with pay and for a period of six months, while awaiting the
results of the investigations. UNMIK makes known that the
investigations are still ongoing.
The spokesman said that the chief-administrator evaluated that
the TMK members with some "exceptions" act professionally and according
to standards, as it is expected from them. "It is important to make
sure that the results of the investigations followed to protect the
image of TMK", said Holkeri.

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Kosovo youth under attack of human traffickers

Tanjug - December 9, 2003
13:36 LONDON , Dec 9 (Tanjug) - The young people of Kosovo-Metohija are
becoming more and more the target of human traffickers, and there are
also cases of kidnapping children, the London daily Independent said
in its Tuesday issue, reminding of the fact that Kosovo had been the
main transit centre for smuggling people to West Europe for some time
now.
Smugglers, however, are attacking local under-aged people more often
now, promising them employment somewhere in Europe, while they usually
end up in some kind of forced labour, in sexual slavery or
prostitution, and there are even cases of selling human organs.

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http://www.exju.org/comments/576_0_1_0_C/

[ex-nju/kosovo e metohija] 8-15 dicembre

[9 dicembre/pristina] migliaia di donne provenienti dalle ex repubbiche
sovietiche vengono comprate i vendute dai trafficanti del sesso: nella
sola pristina, in kosovo, si contano 130 bordelli…
l’articolo di daniel howden sull’independent.co.uk

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CHI DEVE CHIEDERE SCUSA A CHI ?
COMMENTI SULLA "GIORNATA DEI DIRITTI UMANI"

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http://www.exju.org/comments/552_0_1_0_C/

il capo dell’unmik holkeri “è tenuto ha chiedere scusa alla serbia
democratica”: così tanjug [http://www.tanjug.co.yu/%5d riporta le
opinioni di nebojsa covic, capo del centro di coordinamento per il
kosovo in merito alla dichiarazione di holkeri del 3 dicembre. a
belgrado, alla conferenza sulla tolleranza e sulle integrazioni
internazionali, holkeri aveva incautamente sostenuto “che la serbia è
tenuta a chiedere scusa al popolo kosovaro perché gli 800 mila albanesi
che fuggivano durante la pulizia etnica non possono dimenticare i
migliaia di assassinati”. “la dichiarazione di holkeri conferma che
presso la comunità internazionale esiste una volontà di accelerazione
del il piano di albanizzazione del kosovo”, ha concluso covic...

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http://www.exju.org/comments/576_0_1_0_C/

[ex-nju/kosovo e metohija] 8-15 dicembre

[9 dicembre/gracanica] editoriale di padre janjic: “un’altra
performance teatrale dei diritti umani”:
il 10 dicembre è la giornata mondial dei diritti dell’uomo.
paradossalmente, anche in kosovo verrà festeggiata, sono in programma
eventi musicali e sportivi proprio nella provincia che negli ultimi
quattro anni si è distinta come “il buco nero” dei diritti umani e
della tolleranza, dove i non-albanesi sono sistematicamente
perseguitati… gli eventi organizzati (tutti in lingua albanese)
mostrano ancora una volta l’assenza di convivenza civile con le
minoranze; nessun serbo potrà parteciparvi se non scortato dai veicoli
delle forze onu/nato, e correndo rischi inimmaginabili…
decani ml

[10 dicembre/pristina] il discorso di covic in occasione della giornata
mondiale dei diritti umani:
...mr. president, prime minister, ladies and gentlemen, today is
international human rights day. i am glad of that because today is also
an important day for kosovo, the day when the prime minister and i are
launching “standards for kosovo”. the announcement of a review date
for a decision on final status has opened a new chapter. now it is time
for us to write that chapter. our task, together, is to prepare kosovo
for final status. there is now a date for a decision, but there is
nothing inevitable about that decision. that decision depends on what
is said and done here in kosovo, because there’s only one route to
final status. and that is through progress on standards...
il testo integrale su decani ml
...e la richiesta del governo serbo affinché cessino tutte le violenze
ai danni delle minoranze non-albanesi in kosovo:
serbia.sr.gov.yu

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A MITROVICA LA BANDIERA E' ALBANESE: MINACCE AI FUNZIONARI ONU CHE
ANCORA NON SONO D'ACCORDO

http://www.makfax.com.mk/news1-a.asp?br=57653
MakFax (Macedonia) - December 5, 2003

UNMIK to remove Albanian flag in Mitrovica

UNMIK has decided to remove the Albanian flag from the
city hall in Kosovo’s western city of Mitrovica. The
flag was raised on November 28.
Deputy Special Representative to the UN Civil
Administration, Francesco Bastagli, made it clear that
the UN flag is the only flag that could be raised
inside and outside the building of the city hall.
“The use of symbols that exclude non-Albanian
communities is doing disservice to a city like
Mitrovica,” said Bastagli in his letter to local
authorities in Mitrovica. He also voiced deep concerns
at the recent threats for physical liquidation of UN
staff in Mitrovica.

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http://www.b92.net/english/news/
index.php?&nav_category=&nav_id=25840&order=priority&style=headlines
Beta - December 5, 2003

UNMIK “concerned” over threats to staff

KOSOVSKA MITROVICA -- Friday – The United Nations
mission in Kosovo yesterday expressed concern over the
death threats to international staff in Kosovska
Mitrovica.
Deputy UN governor Francesco Bastagli, in a letter to
Albanian leaders in the segregated town, also took
exception to the Albanian flag being raised on the
local council building, saying that only a UN flag
should be flown either in or outside the building.
He added that the UN was also particularly concerned
that one of its employees in the Mitrovica council had
been declared persona non grata.

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MORTO SOLDATO USA

il manifesto - 07 Dicembre 2003

Un soldato americano è stato trovato morto in un bunker a Camp
Monteith, base dei militari statunitensi della missione Nato nel Kosovo
orientale. Secondo fonti della Kfor, il sergente Daryl Brooks, 43 anni
sottufficiale di collegamento, è morto per una ferita da arma da fuoco.
Brooks era uno dei circa 2.500 soldati americani schierati nella forza
Nato. Aperte le indagini.

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US soldier found dead in Kosovo

Agence France Presse - December 6, 2003

PRISTINA, Serbia-Montenegro - A US soldier serving with the NATO
peacekeeping mission in Kosovo (KFOR) has been found dead, a statement
Saturday by the peacekeeping force said.
"Sergeant Daryl Brooks, 43, a personnel non-commissioned officer with
Headquarters and Headquarters Company, 1st Battalion 111th Infantry was
found dead of a gunshot wound" early Thursday, the statement said.
Brooks was found in a concrete bunker in the US military Camp Monteith
in eastern Kosovo by a soldier serving with his unit.
The statement did not say whether the death came under suspicious
circumstances.
Over 2,000 US soldiers are part of 20,000-strong KFOR and are in
control of Kosovo's eastern sector that borders Macedonia and Serbia.
Kosovo has been under UN and NATO control since June 1999.

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INCIDENTI A MITROVICA

il 6 dicembre una folla di serbi a mitrovica ha accolto a sassate il
ministro albanese rexhepi che si recava alla cena con i rappresentanti
della world bank. non ci sono stati feriti, ma alcuni veicoli dell’onu
sono stati bruciati...

voice of america :
http://www.voanews.com/article.cfm?objectID=E4F8A549-58F6-4E2E-
94E5F99D140FFEED

politika : http://www.politika.co.yu/2003/1207/01_18.htm

la responsabilità degli incidenti a mitrovica è di rexhepi stesso: al
pranzo con i rappresentanti della banca mondiale non doveva
parteciparvi, lo ha fatto per farsi vedere buona luce prima della
conferenza a bruxelles, e lo ha fatto violando gli accordi territoriali
onu di mitrovica...”: questa l’opinione di milan ivanovic,
rappresentante del consiglio nazionale serbo per il kosovo
settentrionale...

KOSOVO: ATTACCO CONTRO DELEGAZIONE BANCA MONDIALE

(ANSA-REUTERS) - KOSOVSKA MITROVICA, 7 DIC - Una folla ha attaccato,
lanciando sassi, un ristorante di Kosovska Mitrovica dove pranzava
una delegazione della Banca Mondiale, fino a poco prima assieme al
primo ministro kosovaro, Bajram Rexhepi, di etnia albanese. Un
giornalista dell'agenzia Reuters sul posto ha riferito che la folla
ha scagliato sassi ma la polizia le ha impedito di fare irruzione nel
locale. Rexhepi aveva lasciato da poco il ristorante, ma i
rappresentanti della Banca mondiale sono stati costretti a fuggire.
La folla ha lanciato sassi contro i loro veicoli, ferendo lievemente
un membro della delegazione. Due ministri serbi del governo Rexhepi,
che si supponeva dovessero trovarsi nel locale, in realta' non si
sono presentati. Kosovska Mitrovica e' divisa in due: la parte
nord e' popolata in prevalenza da serbi (che sono maggioranza anche
in tutta la citta'), mentre gli albanesi vivono perlopiu' nella
zona sud, di la' da un ponte che e' stato spesso teatro di scontri
tra le due etnie. In un comunicato, la Missione Onu in Kosovo
(Unmik), che amministra la provincia dopo la guerra del 1999, ha
affermato che negli incidenti sono state coinvolte circa 150 persone,
alcune delle quali hanno danneggiato un autobus e incendiato tre
veicoli (due della polizia locale). Il comunicato non precisa
l'etnia degli aggressori ne' l' identita' della persona rimasta
ferita, ma condanna l'attacco, avvenuto - afferma - durante una
visita mirante a trovare mezzi ''per promuovere lo sviluppo economico
in Kosovo''. ''Le azioni delle persone che hanno turbato l'ordine
pubblico sono biasimevoli'', aggiunge il comunicato. L'addetto
stampa dell'Unmik Tracy Becker ha precisato che la delegazione della
Banca mondiale ha poi trovato rifugio presso il quartier generale
della polizia, dove e' al sicuro. (ANSA-REUTERS). DIG
07/12/2003 01:24

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[ex-nju/kosovo e metohija] 8-15 dicembre

[9 dicembre/mitrovica] commentando l’incidente della scorsa settimana a
mitrovica (un gruppo di serbi inferociti ha aggredito rexhepi ed i
delegati della banca mondiale di passaggio in città, non ci sono stati
feriti ma alcuni veicoli dell’unmik sono stati dati alle fiamme) il
portavoce dell’onu chappell ha confermato che l’unmik era completamente
all’oscuro della visita di rexhepi a mitrovica, che non era minimamente
prevista. in merito all’articolo apparso sul sunday mirror, è stato
confermato l’arresto di halil balaj, e sono in corso indagini per
identificare gli altri ex-membri dell’uck che avrebbero connessioni con
il terrorismo internazionale...

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BOMBA ESPLODE A PRISTINA

http://www.b92.net/english/news/
index.php?&nav_category=&nav_id=25894&order=priority&style=headlines
Beta - December 9, 2003

Explosion in Pristina

PRISTINA -- Tuesday – A loud explosion was reported in
southern Pristina just after 10.00 last night.
Beta news agency said the blast outside the former
university campus could be heard across Kosovo’s
capital city.
Two UN vehicles parked nearby were also destroyed.
There are no details of casualties or who might have
been responsible.

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KOSOVO: UE, SERBIA RESPINGE PIATTAFORMA UNMIK PER STANDARD

(ANSA) - BELGRADO, 8 DIC - Il governo serbo giudica ''inaccettabile''
la piattaforma proposta dall'amministrazione dell'Onu per il Kosovo
(Unmik) sugli standard necessari per avviare una discussione sullo
status della provincia, che verra' presentata a Bruxelles al forum
Ue-Balcani del 10 dicembre. In una riunione convocata dal
vicepremier serbo incaricato della questione albanese, Nebojsa Covic,
il governo ha definito il documento ''non adeguato alla risoluzione
1244 dell'Onu'', che prevede fra l'altro la sovranita' di Belgrado sul
territorio kosovaro. I ministri hanno sottolineato che non sono
stati recepiti nella bozza dell'Unmik i suggerimenti espressi dalla
Serbia, fra cui il ritorno incondizionato dei profughi serbi nel
Kosovo, la restituzione dei beni serbi passati nelle mani degli
albanesi, una riorganizzazione basilare del Corpo di protezione
kosovaro, i diritti di Belgrado nei processi di privatizzazione.
La discussione sugli standard avviene in un momento delicato della
vita politica serba, in piena campagna per le elezioni legislative
del 28 dicembre. Il Kosovo e' uno dei temi piu' gettonati dalle forze
ultranazionaliste, ed e' parte integrante anche del programma di
quelle piu' moderate.(ANSA). OT 08/12/2003 17:14

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EYug.htm#Draft%20standards%20do%20not%20prejudice%20final%20status%20of%
20Kosovo,%20UNMIK
Tanjug - December 9, 2003

Kosovo Serbs reject standards

09:47 BELGRADE , Dec 9 (Tanjug) - The Kosovo-Metohija
coordination centre said late on Monday that the Serb
representatives at Kosovo institutions, members of the
province's local management, and the coordination
centre leading team had supported the decision of the
Serbian government that the standards representatives
of the international community had proposed for
Kosovo-Metohija be rejected.
It was said that the draft of the document represented
an attempt of revision of Security Council Resolution
1244, as well as of the Kosovo Constitutional
Framework. The document was qualified as unacceptable
also becuase it did not respect the crucial issues as
regards the return of IDPs, privatisation, return of
property, resolution of property relations in Kosovo
and the Kosovo Protection Corps, the statement said.

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KOSOVO: ONU FISSA 'ROAD MAP' PER DEFINIZIONE DELLO STATUS

(ANSA) - PRISTINA, 10 DIC - Le Nazioni Unite hanno fissato e reso
noto oggi i criteri ai quali il Kosovo dovra' attenersi come
condizione per la definizione del suo status, non esclusa
l'indipendenza. Il documento, che rappresenta una sorta di ''road
map'', e' stato presentato oggi nel corso di una cerimonia ufficiale
da parte dell'amministratore Onu della provincia, Harri Holkeri. I
criteri posti dall'Onu per giungere a una definizione dello status
entro il 2005, riguardano riforme democratiche nel campo
dell'economia, delle minoranze (incluso il ritorno dei profughi
serbi) e per la costituzione dello stato di diritto. ''Per
giungere allo status definitivo c'e' una sola strada - ha dichiarato
Holkeri - e' questa strada e' il rispetto degli standard che abbiamo
fissato. Questa strada - ha aggiunto - e' anche la scelta fra le
democrazia e la criminalita' e l'anarchia''. Alla cerimonia erano
assenti in segno di dissenso tutti i rappresentanti della minoranza
serba. Il presidente Ibrahim Rugova e il primo ministro Bajram
Rexhepi hanno accolto con soddisfazione il documento, rivolgendo un
appello pubblico affinche' da oggi in poi ''ogni kosovaro si impegni
per il rispetto di questi standard, che costituiscono la via di
accesso alla nostra indipendenza''. (ANSA). BLL
10/12/2003 19:20

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http://www.tanjug.co.yu/
Tanjug - December 11, 2003

Holkeri's offer "conditional independence of Kosovo,"
Trajkovic

13:10 GRACANICA , Dec 10 (Tanjug) - Member of the
Return coalition and Serbian national council for
central Kosov, Rada Trjkovic, said on Wednesday that
the standards UNMIK chief Harri Holkeri had offered,
practically represented "a conditional independence of
Kosovo."
"Since the paper (standards) does not imply any
institutional ties between Kosovo-Metohija and
Belgrade, it practically means a conditional
independence of the province," Trajkovic told Tanjug.

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Elect.htm#If%20Kosovo%20became%20independent,%20Macedonia%20would%20disa
ppear%20-%20Covic
Tanjug (Serbia-Montenegro) - December 11, 2003

If Kosovo became independent, Macedonia would
disappear - Covic

10:49 CACAK , Dec 11 (Tanjug) - Serbian Deputy Premier
and leader of the Democratic Alternative (DA), Nebojsa
Covic, said in Cacak late on Wednesday that in case
Kosovo-Metohija became independent, Macedonia, as a
state, would disappear.
"I can sign right now that if Kosovo-Metohija is
granted independence, there will be no Macedonia in a
month and a half, at the most. Our intention is not,
in spite of all, to give up a part of our territory,"
Covic said.

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Tanjug - December 10, 2003

Time for Serbia to take more aggressive steps, Jaksic

14:26 KOSOVSKA MITROVICA , Dec 10 (Tanjug) - Community
of Serbian municipalities in Kosovo and Metohija
president Marko Jaksic told Tanjug on Wednesday,
following the unilateral decision of UNMIK chief Harri
Holkeri to determine standards in Kosovo, that it was
time for the state of Serbia to take more aggressive
steps.
"It is time for Serbia to take the initiative, and
that means taking more aggressive steps for the
integration of Kosovo and Metohija into the Serbian
state," Jaksic assessed.

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http://www.seeurope.net/en/Story.php?StoryID=46556&LangID=1
Seeurope.net - December 11, 2003

Belgrade Warns of Ethnic Cleansing in Kosovo

An alternative reality is being established in Kosovo
based on the results of ethnic cleansing, Belgrade’s
Kosovo Coordination Centre said today.
“Human rights are the inalienable right of every man.
But a different reality is being built in Kosovo today
on the results of ethnic cleansing, criminalisation of
the society and violation of human rights,” said the
centre in a statement, quoted by radio B92.
Before any debate on the final status of Kosovo, the
international community must provide Serbs living
there with fundamental human rights, the centre said.

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[ex-nju/kosovo e metohija] 8-15 dicembre

[11 dicembre] kosovo/status, standard, road map
il governo serbo ha rigettato ieri la bozza presentata il giorno
precedente da harri holkeri a pristina. la bozza, che dovrebbe condurre
allo “status giuridico finale per il kosmet” verrà presentata a
bruxelles ed è stata infelicemente ribattezzata ‘road map’. alla
presentazione del documento i serbi del kosovo non erano presenti: in
breve, si rifiutano di partecipare perchè ritengono che nei documenti
a) sia data sovranità alle istituzioni albanesi senza che sia garantito
il rientro degli sfollati serbi; b) la risoluzione 1244 non sia stata
rispettata, c) non sia prevista la restituzione dei beni usurpati ai
serbi fuggitivi dagli albanesi, né che sia prevista la revisione del
kosovo protection force che - al momento - non è che un riciclaggio
delle forze uck. nebojsa covic, responsabile del kosovo per belgrado,
ha dichiarato che il documento elaborato da holkeri è “un’autostrada
che porta diritta all’indipendenza del kosovo”. neppure gli albanesi
sembrano soddisfatti: accusano holkeri di aver ‘sentito eccessivamente’
le pressioni di belgrado. articoli in merito:
balkantimes
danas
glas-javnosti/1
glas-javnosti/2
novosti
politika/1
politika/2
guardian.co.uk
oss.balcani

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ATTACCO CONTRO CHECKPOINT SERBO

B92 - December 8, 2003  

South Serbian checkpoint under attack

KONCULJ -- Monday - Unidentified gunmen last night opened fire on a
police checkpoint Konculj, near the Kosovo border, police in the
southern Serbian city of Vranje said today.  
Police in the checkpoint returned the fire.  No casualties were
reported in the incident.
An investigation this morning indicated that the shots were fired from
an improvised stone shelter near the local school.
Police are investigating.

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ANCHE IN UNGHERIA L'EROINA ARRIVA DAL KOSOVO

http://www.tanjug.co.yu/
EBalkans.htm#Heroine%20comes%20from%20Kosovo,%20Hungarian%20police
Tanjug - December 9, 2003

Heroin comes from Kosovo, Hungarian police

13:16 BUDAPEST , Dec 9 (Tanjug) - According to the
knowledge of the Hungarian police, each day, about 100
kilogrammes of heroine are sent from Kosovo to
European countries.
Besides the ethnic Albanian mafia, Turks are also very
active in this job, who are are specialised for
transporting the drugs from Asia to Europe, it was
pointed out in the latest report of the coordination
centre for the fight against organised crime, which is
seated in Budapest.

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RUSSI E MACEDONI A COLLOQUIO SUL PROBLEMA GRANDEALBANESE

http://en.rian.ru/rian/
index.cfm?prd_id=160&msg_id=3682948&startrow=1&date=2003-12-
09&do_alert=0
Russian Information Agency (Novosti) - December 9, 2003

MACEDONIAN OFFICIAL DISCUSSES KOSOVO PROBLEM IN MOSCOW

MOSCOW, December 9th, 2003 (ITAR TASS correspondent
Yulia Troitskaya) - Russian Deputy Foreign Minister
Vladimir Chizhov has discussed the Kosovo settlement
with Undersecretary of the Macedonian Foreign Ministry
Victor Gaber, the Russian ministry's information and
press department reported.
At the meeting the parties exchanged opinions on
regional problems. Thus, the Russian party confirmed
that it supported the efforts of the Macedonian
leaders to strengthen the security, sovereignty and
territorial integrity of the state.
The parties also expressed satisfaction with the
dynamics of the two countries' political dialogue.
They signalled mutual interest in further development
of comprehensive Russian-Macedonian co-operation,
above all, in the trade and economic sphere, the
ministry pointed out.
Gaber arrived in Moscow to take part in the
Russian-Macedonian foreign-ministry consultations.

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PROFUGHI SERBI PROVANO A RIENTRARE:
SUBITO CIRCONDATI DA FOLLA OSTILE

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[ex-nju/kosovo e metohija] 8-15 dicembre

[10 dicembre/klina] un gruppo di 26 serbi stazionava da settimane a
bica in attesa di rientrare nelle proprie case a klina. scortati
dall’unmik, si sono mossi verso klina (a sette chilometri di distanza)
e hanno trovato un centinaio di civili albanesi infericiti che hanno
impedito loro di riprendere possesso delle proprie abitazioni,
accogliendoli a sassate.

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index.php?&nav_category=&nav_id=25925&order=priority&style=headlines
Beta - December 11, 2003

Serb repatriates narrowly escape angry mob

GRACANICA -- Wednesday – A group of Serb repatriates
in Kosovo were evacuated today from the town of Klina
after an angry mob of Albanian residents besieged the
building they were in.
Local Serb Petko Pesic told media that about ten
Serbs, part of a group of 26, arrived in the town
today and moved into a house in order to prepare for
the return of the others over the next few days.
However they were eventually evacuated by KFOR troops
after several hundred local Albanians, described by
Pesic as extremely aggressive, surrounded the
building.
Witnesses said that about a hundred UNMIK police
officers arrived at the scene to secure the
evacuation.
As the left the house, the mob stoned the Serbs and
vehicles driven by the international police, said
Pesic.
Serb sources in the nearby village of Bica, where the
26 would-be-repatriates are staying, say that the
group is determined to return to their home town.

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Tanjug - December 12, 2003

Trajkovic says return of Serbs to Metohija obstructed

18:34 KOSOVSKA MITROVICA , Dec 11 (Tanjug) - Serb
National Council for Central Kosovo Executive
Committee member Rada Trajkovic, a Kosovo parliament
MP of the coalition Povratak, on Thursday accused
UNMIK return department chief Peggy Higgs of
obstructing the return of Serbs to Metohija region of
this province.
Higgs influenced KFOR officials, who stopped providing
protection for Serbs who returned to Klina, and the
Serbs then fled to the nearby village Bica after a
protest by ethnic Albanians, Trajkovic said.

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KOSOVO: PARLAMENTO DICHIARA DECADUTE LEGGI SERBE

(ANSA) - BELGRADO, 11 DIC - Il parlamento del Kosovo ha votato oggi a
larghissima maggioranza una dichiarazione che definisce decadute le
leggi serbe a partire dal 1989, quando la provincia a maggioranza
albanese fu privata dell'autonomia. L'amministratore dell'Unmik
Harry Holkeri ha annullato la decisione, che la portavoce Isabelle
Carlovic ha qualificato come ''inaccettabile e non riconosciuta dalla
comunita' internazionale''. '' Applicare la legge e' compito
dell'amministrazione dell'Onu, in base alla risoluzione 1244 del
consiglio di sicurezza delle Nazioni unite. Il parlamento puo' solo
manifestare la sua opinione'', ha detto Holkeri. Asim Bajrami,
autore della mozione approvata dal parlamento, ha motivato il voto -
al quale i media di Belgrado danno stasera ampio risalto - con il
fatto che le leggi serbe adottate dopo il 1989 ''sono state varate
contro la volonta' della maggioranza della popolazione kosovara e
pregiudicano l'avvenire del Kosovo''. Hanno votato a favore
della mozione 71 deputati, 17 hanno votato contro. (ANSA).
OT
11/12/2003 19:50

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http://www.makfax.com.mk/news1-a.asp?br=58240
Makfax (Macedonia) - December 11, 2003

Kosovo Assembly moves to repeal Serbian laws

Kosovo’s Assembly will convene for a session to debate
the proposed repealing of dozens of Serbia’s laws that
have been enforced in the past, including the laws
related to privatization in the province.
The motion was tabled by the Kosovo’s government and
the Legislation Board of the Kosovo Assembly. The
motion includes revoking of 53 laws that have been
enforced by Serbia after March 22, 1989. Kosovo’s
government is insisting that these laws be designated
‘inapplicable’.
The Representatives of Kosovo Serbs strongly opposed
government’s move, noting that the eventual passage
will be ‘invalid’ given the fact that this issue is
under the jurisdiction of the UN mission in Kosovo
(UNMIK).

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Tanjug - December 10, 2003

Kosovo government instructed to nullify Serbia's
legislation

20:49 PRISTINA , Dec 9 (Tanjug) - The Kosovo
parliament commission for legislation, judiciary and
Constitutional Framework instructed Tuesday the Kosovo
government to nullify all laws and regulations
regarding Kosovo-Metohija adopted by the Republic of
Serbia from 1989 and 2001.
If the Kosovo government does this, it should then
also nullify many legal acts adopted by the Kosovo
parliament since 2001, such as the law on superior
education which discriminates against the Serb
community, Kosovo parliament presidency member Gojko
Savic said.

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[ex-nju/kosovo e metohija] 8-15 dicembre

[11 dicembre] ...nebojsa covic chiede ufficialmente a holkeri di
invalidare la decisione del parlamento kosovaro albanese, che ha
abrogato tutte le leggi serbe introdotte fra il 1998 ed il 2001. il
governo serbo minaccia di cancellare i decreti approvati in merito al
kosovo dopo il 12 giugno del ‘99. per l’ennesima volta il governo di
belgrado chiede che sia rispettata la risoluzione 1244 delle nazioni
unite...
serbia.sr.gov.yu
decani ml

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ANCHE I TURCHI - NOTORIAMENTE - SONO IN KOSOVO PER PORTARE PACE,
DEMOCRAZIA, E RISPETTO DELLE MINORANZE

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Seeurope.net - December 11, 2003

Chief of Turkish General Staff Holds Talks in Kosovo

Chief of Turkish General Staff Gen. Hilmi Ozkok on
Monday met NATO and Turkish military officials in
Kosovo.
Ozkok held his first meeting in NATO's Kosovo Force
(KFOR) headquarters with KFOR Commander Gen. Holger
Kammerhoff.
Ozkok also met with commanders of a Turkish battalion
deployed in Kosovo. In addition to the commanders, he
also spoke with local civilian officials.
He was scheduled to head for Bosnia and Herzegovina
upon completion of his meetings in Kosovo, Turkish
Daily News.

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Turkish Press - Anadolu Agency - December 11, 2003

Albanian President Moisiu Receives Gen. Ozkok

TIRANA - Albanian President Alfred Moisiu said on
Wednesday that Turkey was the country which extended
the biggest technical support and aid in modernization
process of Albanian armed forces.
Moisiu received the same day Chief of General Staff
Gen. Hilmi Ozkok who visited Albania. Speaking during
the meeting, Moisiu said that the military cooperation
between the two countries had to be further
intensified.
The contributions which Turkey would make to training
and preparation of Albanian commando forces were taken
up and Turkey's increasing cooperation with Tirana
administration in military field also came onto
agenda.
Ozkok said in the meeting that the aid of Turkey to
Albania in latter's reaching NATO standards would
continue.
Noting that Albania was a factor of peace and
stability in the region, Ozkok said that Turkey was
ready to help to make Albania become a member of NATO
as soon as possible.
After the meeting, Ozkok visited centre of commando
forces in Zall Heri region near Tirana. An operation
was also exercised in the centre where Turkey
contributed to reconstruction studies.
Gen. Ozkok will also visit today Kucova military
airbase which was reconstructed by Turkish soldiers.
The military base is expected to be ready in 2005.

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IL CRIMINALE UCK AGIM CEKU PROMETTE: TRASFORMERO' IL "CORPO DI
PROTEZIONE" (UCK) NELL'ESERCITO DELLA KOSSOVA

http://www.b92.net/english/news/index.php?nav_id=25950&style=headlines
SRNA - December 12, 2003

Agim Ceku’s army ambitions

PRISTINA -- Friday – The commander of the Kosovo
Protection Corps has confirmed he intends to transform
the UN-created body into an army.
“We’re not questioning UNMIK’s authority, which
defines the KPC as a civil organisation, but the KPC
will become an army”, Agim Ceku told BBC Radio. “We’re
capable of it, we have a right to do it, and no one
should fear this”.
The KPC was set up by the United Nations
administration four years ago from the ranks of the
disbanded Kosovo Liberation Army. It is defined as a
“civilian emergency organisation” designed to secure
public safety in times of emergency and humanitarian
assistance.
The UN governor in the province last week suspended 12
members of the Corps for suspected links with an
outlawed terrorist organisation going by the name of
the Albanian National Army. Ceku said the move was
“unacceptable” since the investigation was still
underway.
Under the UN’s plan to implement standards in the
province ahead of final-status talks, the KPC is
expected to recruit more members from ethnic minority
communities, and to cut its overall size to just 3,052
active members and 2,000 reservists.
Ceku told the BBC he was confident of meeting the
standards, and pledged to “invest maximum effort to
convince members of the Serb community that the KPC is
their institution as well”.

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[ex-nju/kosovo e metohija] 8-15 dicembre

[12 dicembre] le ambizioni militari di agim ceku: “non intendiamo
mettere in dubbio l’autorità dell’unmik, ma il KPC (kosovo protection
force) non può che diventare un vero e proprio esercito”, ha
dichiartato agim ceku alla bbc. “abbiano il diritto di farlo e nessuno
dovrebbe temerci”. solo la scorsa settimana dodici membri del kosovo
protection force erano stati sospesi dal servizio per sospetta attività
terroristica di matrice grand’albanese.

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ATTACCATO POLIZIOTTO

http://www.b92.net/english/news/index.php?nav_id=25973&style=headlines
SRNA - December 15, 2003

Policeman attacked in western Kosovo

PEC -- Sunday – A Kosovo Police officer was seriously
injured in an armed attack on a police patrol near Pec
on Saturday evening.
The policeman was admitted to hospital in Pec with
several gunshot wounds.
The incident came only fifteen days after an attack in
which two police were killed on the Pec-Decani road.
Both attacks are being linked to the Kosovo Police
investigation into drug smuggling and prostitution in
the west of the province.

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AGGREDITA UNA DONNA A MITROVICA

http://www.b92.net/english/news/index.php?nav_id=25974&style=headlines
SRNA - December 15, 2003

Serb woman attacked in segregated Kosovo town

KOSOVSKA MITROVICA -- Sunday – A Serb women was beaten in the northern
part of the divided town of Kosovska
Mitrovica late on Saturday evening.
Zlata Djurovic suffered serious head injuries in the
attack and was admitted to hospital where she is
reported to be in a satisfactory condition.
Hospital spokesman Marko Jaksic told media that the
attack followed the beating of two Serb teenagers in
the same area less than a month ago.
He said the Kosovo police were obviously unable to
protect Serbs in the area and that UN police and KFOR
troops no longer patrolled the border between the Serb
and Albanian occupied parts of the town.

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Tanjug - December 14, 2003

Mixed settlement in northern part of Kosovska
Mitrovica permanent hotbed, ZSOK president

18:32 KOSOVSKA MITROVICA , Dec 14 (Tanjug) - President
of the Union of Kosovo-Metohija Serb Municipalities
(ZSOK) Marko Jaksic has said, in view of the incident
in which Kosovo Serb woman Zlata Djurovic was injured
late on Saturday, that the ethnically-mixed
Micro-settlement (Mikro naselje) in the northern part
of the town represents a permanent hotbed and that
UNMIK and Kosovo police are not capable of protecting
Kosovo Serbs.
"UNMIK police have never showed readiness to undertake
something, and ever since the mixed Kosovo police
service began patrolling the streets some two or three
months ago, the situation is even worse for the
Serbs," Jaksic said.

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[ex-nju/kosovo e metohija] 8-15 dicembre

[14 dicembre/mitrovica] durante la notte, assalitori sconosciuti hanno
picchiato zlata djurovic, una donna serba di 52 anni. i medici del
reparto di terapia intensiva dell’ospedale di kosovska mitrovica hanno
comunicato che la donna è stata ricoverata con gravi lesioni al cranio
e che la sua situazione sanitaria è ancora incerta. questo è il secondo
attacco nell’ultimo mese a cittadini serbi che vivono nella zona di
mitrovica, abitata da popolazione mista e divisa da un check point
militare. l’incidente ha provocato nuove paure tra la popolazione, ed i
rappresentanti serbi accusano l’onu di non fare abbastanza per
proteggere la popolazione serba in kosovo. >>>

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NUOVA BEFFA: UNA "ROAD MAP" PER IL KOSOVO ?

----- Original Message -----
From: ERPKIM Info Service
Sent: Monday, December 15, 2003 10:18 AM
Subject: [ERPKIM] Kosovo Serbs insist on full implementation
of UNSCR 1244, Dec 15

Decembar 15, 2003

ERP KiM Newsletter 15-12-03

Kosovo Serbs insist on full implementation of UN SC Resolution 1244

(...)
Serbian Coalition within Kosovo Parliament wrote a letter
to the UN Sec. Gen. Kofi Annan expressing their concerns because the
most fundamental elements of UN SCR 1244 are missing in the "Standards
for Kosovo" plan. Belgrade Government and Kosovo Serbs see the "the
Standards for Kosovo" as a roadmap to Kosovo's secession from Serbia and
an attempt to make a revision of the Resolution 1244. Serbian Patriarch
Pavle and the Holy Synod of the Serbian Orthodox Church supported the
position of Dr. Covic and the Povratak Coalition on this document which
in return for short term "minority rights" leaves only independence of
Serbia's southern province as an option for negotiations. Bishop
Artemije appealed on Belgrade and Serb MP's in Kosovo Parliament not to
support a plan with such serious deficiencies, but to request
fundamental elements of 1244 Resolution to be implemented prior to any
further discussion on Kosovo's final status - specifically: substantial
autonomy of Kosovo within Serbia-Montenegro and the return of "Serb
personnel" to Kosovo.

Extract from the letter to Kofi Annan
Serb MP's indicate that they will not participate
in institutions which are in opposition with UN Mandate

The Return Coalition reminded that, according to
Resolution 1244, the status of Kosovo is defined as substantial autonomy
within Serbia and Montenegro, with respect for the sovereignty and
territorial integrity of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, now the
state union of Serbia and Montenegro.
"The question that must be asked is if substantial
autonomy of Kosovo and Metohija is not achieved within Serbia and
Montenegro, with respect for her sovereignty and territorial integrity
in this phase of implementation of Resolution 1244, what can then be
expected in the phase of determining the future status of Kosovo and
Metohija?" the Return Coalition emphasizes in its letter to the UN
secretary general.
"Otherwise, political representatives of the Serbian
people in Kosovo and Metohija within the provisional institutions of
self-government are not prepared to offer by their presence the illusion
of acquiescence with what is in grave contradiction with the UN mandate,
as well as with the political and national interests of the Serbian
people and state in the region of Kosovo and Metohija," the Coalition
underlines in the letter to Kofi Annan. More


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"Povratak" Coalition sends (protest) letter to Kofi Anan

The Serb political representatives in Kosovo sent the letter to
Annan yesterday in which they stated that they are concerned by the
practice of "the imposition of the content of the document on 'Standards
for Kosovo' as the culmination of the misuse of provisional institutions
of self-government by Albanian political representatives in the
parliament and government of Kosovo and Metohija".

TOP

Beta News Agency, Belgrade
December 14, 2003

Return Coalition sends letter to Kofi Annan

PRISTNA - In a letter addressed to UN secretary general Kofi
Annan, the Return Coalition (Povratak) stressed that adopting the
"Standards for Kosovo" without participation by the Serbian side, as
well as the content of the document itself, is "a serious violation of
Resolution 1244 and blazing a path to an independent Kosovo".

The Serb political representatives in Kosovo sent the letter to
Annan yesterday in which they stated that they are concerned by the
practice of "the imposition of the content of the document on 'Standards
for Kosovo' as the culmination of the misuse of provisional institutions
of self-government by Albanian political representatives in the
parliament and government of Kosovo and Metohija".

Informing Annan that they did not attend the promotion of
"Standards for Kosovo" this week in Pristina, the representatives of the
Return Coalition explained that they thus wished "to once again stress
their disagreement with the content and manner of enactment of the
document whose passage is of critical importance for the future of
Kosovo and Metohija".

"Unfortunately, this is also a consequence of the irrational
insistence of UNMIK that the participation of legitimate representatives
of the Serbian people in Kosovo and Metohija, as well as of the Serbian
Government, be formal instead of substantive, that it is, that it be
reduced to being informed of the content of the document," the Return
Coalition said in the letter, a copy of which has also been sent to EU
high representative Javier Solana and officials of the Council of Europe
and the European Parliament.

The Serb political representatives point out that the majority of
their suggestions in the drafting of the document were rejected while,
on the other hand, "the key conclusions are obviously those of Albanian
political representatives".

The Return Coalition reminded that, according to Resolution 1244,
the status of Kosovo is defined as substantial autonomy within Serbia
and Montenegro, with respect for the sovereignty and territorial
integrity of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, now the state union of
Serbia and Montenegro.

"The question that must be asked is if substantial autonomy of
Kosovo and Metohija is not achieved within Serbia and Montenegro, with
respect for her sovereignty and territorial integrity in this phase of
implementation of Resolution 1244, what can then be expected in the
phase of determining the future status of Kosovo and Metohija?" the
Return Coalition emphasizes in its letter to the UN secretary general.

The Return Coalition therefore energetically demands that the
process of implementation of standards be returned within the scope of
the mandate of the United Nations in Kosovo and Metohija.

"Otherwise, political representatives of the Serbian people in
Kosovo and Metohija within the provisional institutions of
self-government are not prepared to offer by their presence the illusion
of acquiescence with what is in grave contradiction with the UN mandate,
as well as with the political and national interests of the Serbian
people and state in the region of Kosovo and Metohija," the Coalition
underlines in the letter to Annan.

The Serbian deputies in the Kosovo parliament informed Annan that
it is "the last opportunity for the UN Security Council, as well as for
you personally, to become concretely engaged in the resolution of
current problems in Kosovo and Metohija, so that the entire process does
not get out of control and open a new cycle of territorial and other
disputes with unforeseeable consequences for the entire region".

The Return Coalition proposes that Annan receive a delegation of
legitimate representatives of the Serbian people in provisional
institutions in Kosovo at the upcoming UN Security Council session on
Kosovo in New York where standards of Kosovo are to be discussed in
order to present problems and proposals for a way out of the existing
crisis.

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NATALE SI AVVICINA: CHIESE SOTTO ATTACCO IN KOSOVO

Explosion in Serb churchyard in Urosevac

Tanjug - December 15, 2003
18:39 BELGRADE , Dec 15 (Tanjug) - The Ras and Prizren Eparchy of the
Serbian Orthodox Church on Monday strongly condemned the Sunday attack
on the Church of St. Uros in Urosevac, in the south-eastern part of
Kosovo.
According to the statement made by the official representative of the
Greek KFOR contingent, an unidentified person threw an explosive
device, most likely a hand grenade, into the churchyard on Sunday
evening, at about 8 p.m.


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'Unfounded' Al Qaeda rumors aim at destabilizing Kosovo, says Rugova
(by Stavros Tzimas)
http://www.ekathimerini.com/4dcgi/_w_articles_ell_1405668_01/12/
2003_36911

Why the UN Mission is Hiding the Real Situation in Kosovo and Metohija
From the Public (by Fr. Sava Janjic)
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/decani/message/78382#5

Danas: Interview: Fr. Sava: An Introduction to the Revision of Security
Council Resolution 1244 (by J. Tasic)
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/decani/message/78438#3

Latest draft version of plan for implementation of standards ultimately
leads to secession of Kosovo and Metohija
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/decani/message/78438#1

Serbian Government: Kosovo Standards Implementation Plan Unacceptable
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/decani/message/78478

Dija Gidzic: Kosovo's Romany envoy. A village teenager's quest to
better herself abroad
http://www.praguepost.com/P03/2003/Art/1204/pprofile.php

Brit Reporters buy Deadly Explosives from KLA Terrorists... ...But it
was NATO that groomed those same Terrorists for Power!
(by Jared Israel)
http://emperors-clothes.com/news/discovery.htm

UNMIK/PR/1079: SRSG and PM launch the "Standards for Kosovo"
http://www.reliefweb.int/w/rwb.nsf/6686f45896f15dbc852567ae00530132/
0aae03912920efae85256df80079046f?OpenDocument

Serb returnees barely escape lynching in attempt to return to their
homes in Kosovo
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/decani/message/78517#1

Human Rights Day - Annual Theatrical Performance in Pristina (by Fr.
Sava Janjic)
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/decani/message/78498#1

Road from Bujanovac to Kosovo-Metohija opened
http://www.serbia.sr.gov.yu/cgi-bin/printpage.cgi?filename=/news/2003-
12/16/332458.html

Serb National Council: Kosovo is not for sale
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/decani/message/78635


Altri articoli interessanti, linkati su
http://www.exju.org/comments/576_0_1_0_C/
[ex-nju/kosovo e metohija] 8-15 dicembre :
il crudele limbo dei rifugiati rom del kosovo in macedonia
hrw.org
gli orfani del kosovo e la nato
guardian.co.uk
intervista con nebojsa covic
danas
il kosovo di ahmeti, indipendente nel 2005
vesti.mk
l’articolo del sunday mirror (come comprare esplosivo in kosovo) è
anche qui
balkanpeace
politika
serbian-business.com
perché gli ebrei hanno lasciato pristina?
emperors-clothes
il kosovo come un modello (sic)
aljazeerah


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Sulle teste mozzate dai miliziani filo-occidentali dell'UCK vedi:
http://it.groups.yahoo.com/group/crj-mailinglist/message/2997
http://resistance.chiffonrouge.org/article.php3?id_article=291
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/decani/message/77934
e le foto su:
http://www.novosti.co.yu/zlocin.htm
http://www.antic.org/KLA
http://www.kosovo.com/kla_decapit.jpg
http://www.kosovo.com/kla_decapit.pdf

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Crime, Terror Flourish In 'Liberated' Kosovo
http://it.groups.yahoo.com/group/crj-mailinglist/message/3004

http://www.exju.org/comments/576_0_1_0_C/

[ex-nju/kosovo e metohija] 8-15 dicembre

[10 dicembre] quattro anni dopo essere stato ‘liberato’ dalla nato con
le bombe, il kosovo è degenerato in una palude di crimine organizzato,
violenze antiserbe, simpatizzanti di al qa’eda: così dicono gli
esperti. sebbene sotto il controllo nominale delle nazioni unite, la
provincia meridionale della serbia oggi è dominata da un triumvirato di
paramilitari albanesi, mafiosi e guerriglieri-terroristi. insieme
controllano il redditizio contrabbando e perfezionano la pulizia etnica
brutale nei confronti delle minoranze: serbi, ma anche rom ed ebrei.

isabel vincent dalle pagine del national post
http://canada.com/national/story.asp?id=E1A583C8-5192-41AB-9E14-
C8B472EDC4EB


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Quattro anni di crimini ignorati
Di Babsi Jones
http://www.clorofilla.it/articolo.asp?articolo=3452

Migliaia di vittime e di desaparecidos per lo più civili e di etnia
serba. Trecentomila cittadini non albanesi espulsi. I nomi degli
appartenenti alle bande terroristiche che operano nell’area. A piede
libero e sotto il vessillo delle Nazioni Unite. Duecento pagine
ripercorrono, con l'ausilio di mappe, testimonianze fotografiche e dati
statistici, la tragica storia delle regioni serbe del Kosovo e della
Metohija degli ultimi quattro anni. E' un libro bianco presentato dal
premier serbo Zoran Zivkovic che raccoglie le testimonianze della
popolazione che, dal 6 giugno 1999 al 23 agosto 2003, ha subito circa
seimila attacchi

SUL "LIBRO BIANCO" DEL GOVERNO DI BELGRADO
VEDI ANCHE:

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