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bcr_19991208_4_eng.txt 'Humane Exchanges' In Southern Serbia Cement Ethnic Divide While Serbs flee Albanian persecution in Kosovo and move to Serbia proper, Albanians living in southern Serbia are intimidated into making the opposite journey. At the end of November, Serbian Police Minister Vlajko Stojiljkovic met in Kursumlija with the heads of Kosovo police units which have been stationed in southern Serbia since their withdrawal from the province to examine "the security situation in Kosovo and in the security zone", even though no Serb police are currently in the province. Everything is fair." Two officials in the local administration in the southern-most Serbian municipality of Medvedja confirmed by telephone to IWPR, that several Albanian families from the two villages in that municipality have left for Kosovo during the past week. www.iwpr.net /archive/bcr/bcr_19991208_4_eng.txt   (721 words)

Studies & Reports Stop making exaggerated statements about Albanian guerrillas that needlessly frighten the Serbs and alienate the Albanians in southern Serbia. Reconstruct the Coordination Body for Southern Serbia according to the OSCE's proposal to include permanent members representing all relevant ministries, members of the community, mayors of the three Presevo Valley municipalities and a president appointed by the Serbian government. The Albanian-majority Presevo Valley in southern Serbia is one of the few conflict resolution success stories in the former Yugoslavia. www.balkans.mehedinti.info /yugoslavia/studies.htm   (2591 words)

Institute for War and Peace Reporting Many Albanians in southern Serbia view their region as "Eastern Kosovo" and do not want to be left out of a final deal. It was the fourth in a series of incidents that have shaken the predominantly Albanian region of southern Serbia. An outbreak of violence in southern Serbia is threatening the already fragile peace there, and creating acrimony between local Albanian politicians and Belgrade. www.iwpr.net /index.pl?archive/bcr3/bcr3_200309_457_1_eng.txt   (1205 words)

Serbia-and-Montenegro.htm This dialect is spoken in northern Albania and by the Albanians of Serbia and MontenegroSerbia and Montenegro (Southern Montenegro and Southern Serbia), the UN protectorate of Kosovo, as well as those of the Republic of Macedonia. Many ethnic Albanians also live in the bordering countries of Serbia and MontenegroSerbia and Montenegro (around 1,850,000; of that, around 1,800,000 in SerbiaSerbia (around 1,700,000 in its province called Kosovo (officially Kosovo and Metohia) only) and around 50,000 in MontenegroMontenegro)... It is bordered by Serbia and MontenegroSerbia and Montenegro in the north, the Republic of Macedonia in the east, and Greece in the south; it has a coast on the Adriatic Sea in the west, and a coast on the Ionian Sea in the southwest. www.worldhistory.com /wiki/S/Serbia-and-Montenegro.htm   (660 words)

2004 Country Report on Human Rights Practices in Serbia and Montenegro The Multiethnic Police Force in southern Serbia was composed primarily of ethnic Albanians and Serbs. Ethnic Albanian leaders of the southern Serbian municipalities of Presevo, Bujanovac, and Medvedja continued to complain about the underrepresentation of ethnic Albanians in government structures. The OMPF continued to cooperate with the Government of Serbia to receive identified remains of Kosovo victims from the 1999 war found in mass graves in Serbia; however, progress was slow. www.state.gov /g/drl/rls/hrrpt/2004/41706.htm   (19742 words)

Serbia and Montenegro Implementation of the Covic plan gave southern Serbia's ethnic Albanians proportional representation in the police and control of local governments in municipalities where they constituted a majority. This region, which encompasses the municipalities of Presevo, Bujanovac, and Medvedja, has the largest concentration of ethnic Albanians in Serbia proper and had been an area of significant ethnic unrest in 2000-01. The great majority of the approximately 10,000 IDPs who fled into Kosovo during the 2001 crisis in southern Serbia returned to their homes in Bujanovac, Presevo, and Medvedja municipalities following the implementation of the 2001 Covic plan. www.state.gov /g/drl/rls/hrrpt/2003/27874.htm   (18146 words)

Albanians demand autonomy for the Presevo valley The largest party of Albanians in southern Serbia, the Party for Democratic Action (PDD) of Riza Halimi, is not represented in the Consensual Council. Presevo, 28 July: Three Albanian opposition political parties in southern Serbia - the Democratic Party of Albanians (DPA), the Movement for Democratic Progress (PDP), and the Democratic Union of the (Presevo) Valley (DUD) - today adopted a political platform demanding territorial and political autonomy for the "Presevo Valley" with the right to unite with Kosovo. 13 The Albanian leadership at the time tried to prejudice the role of KPC with the introduction of the adjective mbrojtje with twofold meaning: protective and defensive, which is the reason why the international representatives insist on the English term (Kosovo Protection Corps), which is not equivocal. www.freerepublic.com /focus/f-news/1184029/posts   (13626 words)

Albanians in the Balkans: Special Reports: Publications: U.S. Institute of Peace The Albanian population in the Balkans, which is defined as a language group and includes Catholics, Orthodox Christians, and Muslims, is scattered throughout the region, with the largest concentrations existing in Albania proper; Macedonia; Kosovo; the areas of Presevo, Bujanovac, and Medvedja in southern Serbia near the border with Kosovo; and Montenegro. Kosovo Albanians have been largely successful at seeking the release of Albanian political prisoners held in Serbia, and are pressing for investigations of missing Albanians. Albanians are even more concerned by the fact that many of the police officers and Ministry of the Interior troops involved in policing the demilitarized zone are the same individuals who patrolled the area under Milosevic, and in some circumstances committed crimes against the Albanian population. www.usip.org /pubs/specialreports/sr77.html   (6061 words)

Skirmishes on Kosovo's border with central Serbia Kosovo, the southern province of Serbia, is now under control of NATO-led peacekeepers, and under agreements with Belgrade, Yugoslav troops must maintain a distance of several miles from the border. The independent Belgrade daily Glas reported Saturday that armed Kosovo Albanians had made a number of attacks on south-central Serbian villages close to the border with Kosovo. Roland Lavoie, a NATO spokesman, said that a group of Kosovo Albanians had brought a fellow Albanian with a gunshot wound to a Kosovo hospital late Friday. www.agitprop.org.au /stopnato/1999112209.htm   (6061 words)

Beta News Agency Covic confirmed that authorities in Belgrade and Albanians from southern Serbia, with NATO guarantees, "will sign a ceasefire agreement around March 10," after which a dialogue should begin with political representatives of the Albanian population from the municipalities of Presevo, Bujanovac and Medvedja. Covic, who heads the Serbia and Yugoslav governments' coordinating body for southern Serbia, told BETA that statements made by NATO officials in New York meant that "we are together going towards stability for the entire region," by exercising patience in resolving the crisis in the municipalities of Presevo, Bujanovac, and Medvedja. BELGRADE - Noon - Movement for Democratic Serbia press conference. www.beta-press.com /bnewsone.htm   (6061 words)

Serbia and Montenegro As in 2002, there were few reported instances of police harassment of ethnic Albanians in southern Serbia. A strong police presence remained in southern Serbia due, in part, to credible threats of violent acts by radical elements of the ethnic Albanian community. Serbia and Montenegro (SaM) is a constitutional republic consisting of the relatively large Republic of Serbia and the much smaller Republic of Montenegro.* In March 2002, the two republics, with European Union (EU) mediation, negotiated the Belgrade Agreement, in which they agreed to redefine the joint state. www.state.gov /g/drl/rls/hrrpt/2003/27874.htm   (18146 words)

ReliefWeb » Document Preview » Report of United Nations Inter-Agency Assessment Mission to Southern Serbia (Mar 2001) However, a brunt of this is felt most acutely in Southern Serbia by the ethnic Albanian community, yet despite dissatisfaction with the former regime's policies, ethnic Albanians did not systematically withdraw from State institutions as was the case in Kosovo in the early 1990's. A UN-led Inter-Agency Assessment Mission to Southern Serbia Report of United Nations Inter-Agency Assessment Mission to Southern Serbia (Mar 2001) www.reliefweb.int /w/Rwb.nsf/vID/40088DC9ADF1D57CC1256A2B0050570E?OpenDocument   (12018 words)

Serbia and Montenegro As in 2002, there were few reported instances of police harassment of ethnic Albanians in southern Serbia. A strong police presence remained in southern Serbia due, in part, to credible threats of violent acts by radical elements of the ethnic Albanian community. Serbia and Montenegro (SaM) is a constitutional republic consisting of the relatively large Republic of Serbia and the much smaller Republic of Montenegro.* In March 2002, the two republics, with European Union (EU) mediation, negotiated the Belgrade Agreement, in which they agreed to redefine the joint state. www.state.gov /g/drl/rls/hrrpt/2003/27874.htm   (12018 words)

CNN.com - Serbia sets ultimatum over Kosovo border - November 24, 2000 Serbia, which had originally given the KFOR peacekeepers just 48 hours, says it will order its own police in to the buffer zone bordering the province if recent attacks by ethnic Albanians are not halted. Prelevic said that the road linking Bujanovac in southern Serbia and Gnjilane in Kosovo was closed because of the presence of ethnic Albanian separatists around a section of the road. In Serbia, angry Kosovo Serb protesters -- unable to return to the province because of the clashes -- set up a roadblock on the motorway between the town of Nis and the Macedonian capital Skopje near the town of Bujanovac. www.cnn.com /2000/WORLD/europe/11/24/kosovo.kfor/index.html   (790 words)

Insight: Legacy of Medieval Serbia There are masterpieces of art and architecture among the medieval monasteries of southern Serbia and Kosovo, but these, too, are poorly known outside scholarly circles, although their locations, including Pech and Prishtina, have become familiar through media reports on the war. The province of Kosovo is part of the heartland of medieval Serbia, which for a time rivaled the Byzantine Empire in Europe, and at its greatest extent in the mid-fourteenth century stretched from the Danube River to the Corinthian Gulf, and from Thrace to the Adriatic coast. The Patriarch complied, appointing Sava Archbishop of Serbia and decreeing that successors should be appointed and confirmed in Serbia itself; the Serbian church thereby became self-governing, with its seat at Zhitcha monastery. www.archaeology.org /9909/etc/insight.html   (2515 words)

info: SERBIA The southern province of Kosovo, once heart of the medieval Orthodox Christian Serbia, during the Ottoman reign became largely populated by different Muslim peoples, especially Albanians but also Turks, Egyptians and so on. Serbia, and in particular the valley of the Morava, is often described as 'the crossroads between East and West', which is one of the primary reasons for its turbulent history. Serbia was a principality or kne?evina (knja?evina), between 1817 and 1882, and a kingdom between 1882 and 1918, during which time the internal politics revolved largely around dynastic rivalry between the Obrenovic and Karadordevic families. www.info-malta.com /Serbia   (2515 words)

Greater Albania - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Southern Montenegro with as centra Ulcinj on the coast and the isolated Plav and Gusinje in the south-east. At the time of the League, Serbs were well ahead with their plans for a Greater Serbia, which would incorporate all the northern Albanian territories, including the port of Durrës. In addition to conflict with the Ottoman Empire, the League was opposed by the neighbors because the mere existence of Albania, autonomous or independent, would frustrate the Greater Serbia plans. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Greater_Albania   (827 words)

Balkan wars and terrorist ties b) Ethnic Albanians from Kosovo (and predominantly ethnic Albanian parts of southern Serbia, such as Presevo) who are accused of being collaborators with the Serbs; Although the report finds that integration in Serbia and Montenegro will be the most likely outcome for the overwhelming majority of refugees and displaced people, it says that it is too early to give up on the goal of repatriation. It added, "Paradoxically, it might even strengthen Milosevic's hand, giving him a convenient scapegoat for the many ills confronting Serbia." USCR's report urges the United States and other donor countries to provide humanitarian assistance to Serbia as well as Montenegro. www.balkanpeace.org /monitor/mfry17.shtml   (516 words)

Serbia - Biocrawler The southern province of Kosovo, once heart of the medieval Orthodox Christian Serbia, during the Ottoman reign became largely populated by different Muslim peoples, especially Albanians but also Turks, Egyptians and so on. Serbia, and in particular the valley of the Morava, is often described as "the crossroads between East and West", which is one of the primary reasons for its turbulent history. Serbia's terrain ranges from the rich, fertile plains of the northern Vojvodina region, limestone ranges and basins in the east, and, in the southeast, ancient mountains and hills. www.biocrawler.com /encyclopedia/Serbia   (5369 words)

Serbia - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia The southern province of Kosovo, once heart of the medieval Orthodox Christian Serbia, during the Ottoman reign became largely populated by different Muslim peoples, especially Albanians but also Turks, Egyptians and so on. Serbia's terrain ranges from the rich, fertile plains of the northern Vojvodina region, limestone ranges and basins in the east, and, in the southeast, ancient mountains and hills. Serbia, and in particular the valley of the Morava, is often described as "the crossroads between East and West", which is one of the primary reasons for its turbulent history. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Serbia   (5369 words)

Serbia - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia The southern province of Kosovo and Metohia, once heart of the medieval Orthodox Christian Serbia, during the Ottoman reign became largely populated by different Muslim peoples, mostly Albanians, but also Turks, Egyptians and so on. Serbia's terrain ranges from the rich, fertile plains of the northern Vojvodina region, limestone ranges and basins in the east, and, in the southeast, ancient mountains and hills. Serbia, and in particular the valley of the Morava, is often described as "the crossroads between East and West", which is one of the primary reasons for its turbulent history. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Serbia   (5369 words)

Kosova Crisis Center Seeing as the Albanians used to live in present day southern Serbia, the direct consequence of that fact was their brutal expulsion from the wider vicinities of Nis, Pirot, Palanka, Leskovac and Vranje. Despite a wealth of scholarship condemning the role of Serbian Chetniks during World War II, Serbian mythology lives on and even grows as the genocide of the Kosovars goes on. The reality is that like virtually every country on the European continent during World War II Serbia had a government which collaborated with the Axis. www.alb-net.com /kcc/050499e2.htm   (4512 words)

Serbia and Montenegro The Muslim faith is the second largest in Serbia and Montenegro, with approximately 5 percent of the population, including Slavic Muslims in the Sandzak, and ethnic Albanians in Montenegro and Southern Serbia. Religion and ethnicity are intertwined closely throughout Serbia and Montenegro, and in many cases it is difficult to identify discriminatory acts as primarily religious or primarily ethnic in origin. The Kosovo Serb population, of who about 100,000 reside in Kosovo and 225,000 in Serbia and Montenegro, are largely Serbian Orthodox. www.state.gov /g/drl/rls/irf/2003/27248.htm   (4486 words)

Serbia: Prime Minister Says Belgrade Will Never Give Up Kosovo Belgrade, 5 September 2003 (RFE/RL) -- Serbian Prime Minister Zoran Zivkovic says the continuing push by Kosovo Albanians for independence is a "dangerous dream" and that Serbians will never agree to give up the southern province. Serbia's parliament last week adopted a document declaring Kosovo an integral and permanent part of Serbia. Speaking at a session of Serbia and Montenegro's parliament yesterday, Zivkovic said he believed the country's accession to the European Union would eventually provide the solution for the Kosovo dispute. globalsecurity.org /military/library/news/2003/09/mil-030905-05092003083838.htm   (207 words)

Inet Vesti The fewest registered voters voted in southern Serbia, where Albanians are boycotting elections. The International Mission for observing election is formed by the OSCE office for democratic institutions and human rights, Parliamentary assemblies of OSCE and European Council and Congress of Local and Regional authoroties of Europe within the European Council. In the central Serbia, 51.36 per cent of registered voters had cast a vote, 50.73 in Vojvodina, while 51.37 percent voters voted in Belgrade. www.inet.co.yu /index.php?date=20031228   (207 words)

Serbia Foresees Democratic Movement Many ethnic Albanians in Kosovo and in parts of southern Serbia bordering the province boycotted the vote, which they called invalid, and hundreds protested the election Saturday in Kosovo´s capital, Pristina. Saturday´s results in Serbia´s elections will enable the democratic movement to complete the revolution set in motion when Kostunica defeated Milosevic for the Yugoslav presidency Sept. 24. Serbia accounts for more than 90 percent of Yugoslavia´s population of 10 million. www.balkanpeace.org /hed/archive/dec00/hed2269.shtml   (730 words)

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