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January 31, 2004
ERP KIM Newsletter 31-01-04
Serb
children in Kosovo and Metohija need to learn according to Republic of
Serbia educational programs
"This is yet another attempt to sever
existing ties between the Serb community here with central Serbia and
her institutions, and thus take one more step toward the secession of
Kosovo and Metohija," said Fr. Sava Janjic on behalf of the Diocese of
Raska and Prizren
CONTENTS:
 Serb
children in Kosovo need to learn according to Serbian educational
programs
"This is yet
another attempt to sever existing ties between the Serb community here
with central Serbia and her institutions, and thus take one more step
toward the secession of Kosovo and Metohija," said Fr. Sava Janjic on
behalf of the Diocese of Raska and Prizren
Member
of Terrorist Albanian National Army Arrested in Pec
UNMIK police advised
that they have arrested a member of the illegal Albanian National Army
in Pec without giving his identity. In a written statement, UNMIK police
said the man was carrying an ANA identification card. Former UNMIK chief
Michael Steiner proclaimed the ANA a terrorist organization.
News from Kosovo and Metohija, Jan 30, 2004
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Old Serbian school in
Gracanica from 1870 (archive photo)
Serb
children in Kosovo and Metohija need to learn according to Republic of
Serbia educational programs
"This is yet another attempt to sever
existing ties between the Serb community here with central Serbia and
her institutions, and thus take one more step toward the secession of
Kosovo and Metohija," said Fr. Sava Janjic on behalf of the Diocese of
Raska and Prizren
ERP KIM
Info Service
Gracanica, January 30, 2004
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The Diocese of
Raska and Prizren expresses its strong protest against the most recent
initiative of the so-called Kosovo ministry of education to impose a
program of instruction and education prepared in Pristina in Serbian
schools in Kosovo and Metohija.
"This is yet
another attempt to sever existing ties between the Serb community here
with central Serbia and her institutions, and thus take one more step
toward the secession of Kosovo and Metohija," said Fr. Sava Janjic on
behalf of the Diocese of Raska and Prizren. Fr. Sava added that "Kosovo
and Metohija Serbs preserved their independent educational systems in
churches and monasteries during the entire five centuries of Turkish
occupation of the Balkans. It would be absurd if they were now to allow
their children to learn the Albanian version of the history of their own
motherland and people."
The Diocese of
Raska and Prizren strongly supports the initiative of the Coordinating
Center for Kosovo and Metohija, which has appealed to Serbs to reject
the programs for instruction of the Kosovo ministry of education for
secondary schools and requested that Serbs insist in negotiations with
UNMIK on the preservation of a unified education program for all Serbian
children throughout the territory of the Republic of Serbia, including
in her southern Province.
Schools in
North Mitrovica and Gorazdevac, as well as other schools attended
exclusively by Serbian children recently received a work contract from
the so-called Kosovo ministry for education, science and technology
foreseeing the introduction of a program of instruction and education
prepared in Pristina. Officials of the Kosovo ministry of education
justify their latest initiative with the intent of finally pulling Serb
teachers working in Kosovo "away from the influence of Belgrade's
policies".
First Serbian schools in
the Middle Ages were founded in Orthodox monasteries,
the centers of
learning and education during the Turkish occupation.
The first
printing press in Kosovo and Metohija was set up
in Gracanica
Monastery in the 16th century.
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Police in Pec arrest member of Albanian National Army
UNMIK
police advised that they have arrested a member of the illegal Albanian
National Army in Pec without giving his identity. In a written
statement, UNMIK police said the man was carrying an ANA identification
card. Former UNMIK
chief Michael Steiner proclaimed the ANA a terrorist organization.
Beta News
Agency, Belgrade
January 30, 2004
 PRISTINA
- UNMIK police advised that they have arrested a member of the illegal
Albanian National Army in Pec without giving his identity.
In a written statement, UNMIK police said the man was carrying an ANA
identification card.
The unnamed man was arrested in Pec two days ago when, according to the
statement, he attempted to deliver a sealed letter from "the main
Pristina headquarters of the ANA".
After the person for whom the letter was intended refused to receive it,
he reported the incident and the arrest followed.
UNMIK police have not revealed either the identity or the nationality of
the arrested person.
International authorities in Kosovo have arrested several Albanians and
sentenced them on suspicion of being members of the ANA.
Former UNMIK chief Michael Steiner proclaimed the ANA a terrorist
organization.
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News from Kosovo and
Metohija, Jan 30
I*Net News,
Belgrade
Friday 30 January 2004
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22:20 The Committee for Legal Issues and Human Rights of the Council of
Europe's Parliamentary Assembly has changed an earlier decision and
decided that in the upcoming seminar on the state of human rights in
Kosovo and Metohija in Paris will include representatives of the state
union of Serbia-Montenegro, advised Sladjana Prica, the head of the
Serbia-Montenegro permanent mission head to the Council of Europe, in
Strasbourg.
21:00 In Serbia there are currently 379,135 refugees, 61.49 percent of
whom are from Croatia and 34.68 percent of whom are from
Bosnia-Herzegovina, stated Petar Ladjevic, the head of the Center for
Political Culture and Education.
20:40 Macedonian authorities today freed Bishop Jovan, the exarch of the
Serbian Orthodox Church in Macedonia.
20:20 Albanian political leaders expressed dissatisfaction with the
decision of UNMIK chief Harri Holkeri not to invite representatives of
Kosovo provisional institutions to the upcoming session of the UN
Security Council, where he will submit a report on the situation in the
Province.
20:00 UNMIK officials assessed that the issue of education in Kosovo is
very sensitive and added that they engaged in constant discussion with
the Belgrade authorities and Kosovo Serbs in order to overcome
differences in accepting the Kosovo education system.
19:40 Con Ross, the coordinator of the task groups for drafting the plan
for implementation of standards in Kosovo, stated in Pristina that the
process is going well and that he expects the plan to be complete by the
middle of February.
12:40 UNMIK police have arrested former Kosovo Liberation Army member
Berim Berisha in Pec on suspicion of having participated in terrorist
activities, said police spokesman Joel Singleton.
12:00 The fundamental human rights of Serbs and other non-Albanian
communities in Kosovo-Metohija are jeopardized to the point where "we
can talk about real genocide without any exaggeration", emphasized
Russian MP Anatoly Korobeynikov, a participant in the winter session of
the Council of Europe's Parliamentary Assembly currently being held in
Strasbourg.
11:40 Speaking in Washington on Thursday, Bishop Artemije of Raska and
Prizren emphasized that the most acceptable solution for the future of
Kosovo and Metohija is "substantial autonomy of the Province within
Serbia-Montenegro with the implementation of essential standards".
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Artemije.
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