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	Kosovo Info Web Portal
		Kosovo Serb political leaders have voiced strong opposition to the removal of KFOR fixed security measures, most recently in the context of the bomb attacks that damaged two Serb Orthodox Churches in Istog/Istok municipality during the night of 17 November, shortly after the removal of the KFOR fixed protection.
		The Kosovo Gorani community is critical of the failure of UNMIK Police to solve crimes affecting the local population.
		Kosovo Serb inhabitants of the majority of the villages in the municipality are able to travel to Kamenicë/Kamenica town, to Gjilan/Gnjilane town, and to Serbia proper.
	www.ian.org.yu /kosovo-info/english/reports/10th/10thSECTION1.htm (8492 words)

	SECURITY COUNCIL URGES ALL MEN AND WOMEN OF KOSOVO TO VOTE IN NOVEMBER 17 ELECTIONS
		The Council also called on all Kosovo’s leaders to publicly condemn violence and ethnic intolerance and to exert all their influences and assume their responsibility for actively ensuring that the campaign and the election were peaceful, democratic and inclusive.
		With regard to the illegal trafficking of arms from Kosovo to the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, the responsibility to stop that activity remained that of UNMIK and KFOR, he said. He stated that the Albanian militants had contacts with Osama bin Laden.
		Haekkerup and UNMIK faced in accomplishing their objectives, which included necessary compromises. The success of the general elections in Kosovo on 17 November should be supported by the entire international community. For its part, Albania would contribute to the implementation of resolution 1244 and the preservation of peace and stability in the region.
	www.un.org /News/Press/docs/2001/sc7165.doc.htm (1450 words)

	Assessment of the Situation of Ethnic Minorities in Kosovo
		Kosovo continues to be volatile and potentially dangerous, with ethnicity often remaining a determining factor in the risk of falling victim to crime.
		Kosovo Serbs are particularly vulnerable to restricted access to medical facilities and increasingly resort to KFOR military hospitals where security and impartiality of service is effectively guaranteed.
		Kosovo is a long way from reaping any potential benefits in terms of improved inter-ethnic relations, fostered by the education system.
	se.uwaterloo.ca /~ijdavis/kosovo/unhcr3.html (20087 words)

	Situation Reports: Balkans, UNHCR: Update on the situation of Roma, Ashkaelia, Egyptian, Bosniak and Gorani in Kosovo
		Kosovo Albanian IDPs in Budisalc/ Budisavce threatened an IDP visiting from Serbia; due to his displacement to Belgrade, he was accused of being a Serb collaborator.
		Kosovo Albanians working for a construction company threatened a village leader because of a tender for reconstruction of houses for Roma, Ashkaelia and Egyptians in Kline/a municipality.
		In addition to violent incidents, Kosovo Serbs continue to be subjected to harassment, intimidation and humiliation ranging from stone throwing targeting individuals, property or vehicles, unwillingness of officials and general public to understand their language, to provide services, and vandalism of religious sites.
	www.reliefweb.int /rw/rwb.nsf/AllDocsByUNID/f673126ec34eb5fdc1256cbf00480ff7 (3036 words)

	macedonia :: macedonians muslim
		Gorani is the same group of people, Macedonian, but only with different name are also Gorani in Kosovo (Serbia).
		As the Gorani resided in the southernmost tip of Serbia (and Kosovo) they prided themselves as being the sole guarantors of Serbia's southern flank.
		The Gorani became targets of the Kosovo Liberation Army and the Kosovo Protection Force after the retreat of the Yugoslav Army and arrival of KFOR in June 1999.
	macedonia.cjb.net /demographics.php?page=macedoniansmuslim (887 words)

	The Others: Kosovo of Non-Albanians
		However the fact that Kosovo is also the land for some 4-percent of Turk, Bosnian, Gorani, Roma, Ashkali and Egyptian makes the Kosovo question their problem as well.
		As the former UN-appointed international ombudsman in Kosovo, Marek Antoni Nowicki stated harshly: “The Serbs are a so-called political minority in Kosovo and they are an important part of the negotiations story.
		Kosovo is also the land of Turks, Bosnians, Gorani, Roma, Ashkali and Egyptians.
	www.axisglobe.com /article.asp?article=858 (487 words)

	UNDP Kosovo - Capacity Building Facility for Kosovo
		Kosovo's authorities have taken up this responsibility and are now currently engaged at all levels of the returns process.
		In October 2003, as a result of negotiations between UNMIK and the PISG in the fall of 2003, the government of Kosovo agreed to participate directly in the returns process with funding from the Kosovo Consolidated Budget, which culminated in the launch of the Government Assistance to Returns (GAR) project initially composed of 12 sub-projects.
		Thus the GAR project represents the largest Kosovo government initiative to support the returns process to date and is an integral part of its wider effort to operationalise its commitment to the "Kosovo Standards" process.
	mirror.undp.org /kosovo/Projects/GAR/gar.asp (4930 words)

	Complete UN Kosovo Coverage
		Kosovo Serb participation was "patchy," with a higher turnout in the enclaves than in northern Mitrovica, Mr.
		The statement also welcomed the signing by the UN Mission in Kosovo (UNMIK) and Belgrade on 5 November of a Common Document, which was consistent with Security Council resolution 1244 and the Constitutional Framework for Provisional Self-Government in the province.
		Kosovo: head of UN mission, Transitional Council voice outrage at attacks on US 12 SEPTEMBER – The top United Nations official in Kosovo and the Kosovo Transitional Council today expressed outrage over the terrorist acts against the United States yesterday, while a rally of solidarity with the victims was held in the streets of Pristina.
	www.un.org /peace/kosovo/news/kosovo2.htm (7522 words)

	[MGSA-L] Kosovo/Macedonia/Bulgaria: Gorani ask for autonomy in Kosovo
		Gorani in Kosovo have similar cultural characteristics with Pomaks in Bulgaria and Greece and Torbeshi in Albania (Muslim religion and a Macedonian or Bulgarian mother tongue).
		He added that the scheduled conference in Skopje would include debates on the measures that the Gorans are expected to undertake during the census in Kosovo, as well as talks on the political and religious oppression over the Gorans in Kosovo.
		"Dnevnik" says that representatives of the Macedonians in Kosovo, especially the locals from the village of Dragas, claimed to have been exposed to strong pressure exerted by the Bosnians, Serbs and Albanians from Kosovo, forcing them to join their ethnic community.
	maillists.uci.edu /mailman/public/mgsa-l/2005-December/006601.html (315 words)

	International Crisis Group - Violence in Kosovo: Who's Kill (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		This move is unlikely to halt the rising tide of violence and crime in Kosovo, or to stem the continued exodus of the province's few remaining non-Albanians; stopping the violence in Kosovo will require much more.
		Both the Roma and the Gorani are accused by ethnic Albanians in general of being allies of the Serbs, and thus have also found themselves targets of revenge killings.
		Atrocities committed by Serb forces against ethnic Albanians and the expulsion of hundreds of thousands of Kosovo Albanians from their homes in the fall of 1998 and again during the NATO air campaign will not soon be forgotten or forgiven.
	www.crisisgroup.org /home/index.cfm?id=1581&l=1 (738 words)

	Serbia and Montenegro (Kosovo/Kosova): "Prisoners in our own homes": Amnesty International's concerns for the human ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		A significant number of Kosovo Albanians live in areas of Kosovo in which they are the minority population, and where they suffer from the same security concerns and denial of the right to freedom of movement.
		Impunity is a highly politicized issue for all communities in Kosovo in the context of both ongoing violations and the legacy of war crimes committed on all sides.
		On 4 September 2002, Kosovo Serb Saša Grkoviæ – arrested on 2 June 2001, and indicted on 19 February 2002 – was acquitted on the basis of insufficient evidence on charges of war crimes, including the massacre of over 100 Albanian civilians at Mala Kruša/Krushë e Vogel.
	web.amnesty.org /library/Index/ENGEUR700102003 (12022 words)

	ORANGE REVOLUTION :: The Forgotten Ones in Kosovo
		That Kosovo’s ethnic Albanians and Serbs talked face-to-face during negotiations in Vienna in February was a milestone in the UN’s seven-year-long attempt to resolve the thorny problem of Kosovo’s status.
		For a group of ethnic Gorani living in Dragas, a small town on the slopes of the Sara mountains in southern Kosovo, there are few realistic opportunities to make a life elsewhere.
		In the decades preceding the outbreak of hostilities in Kosovo, the Gorani population was more aligned with Serbian state structures than with Kosovo’s ethnic Albanian majority.
	www.orangerevolution.us /blog/_archives/2006/3/21/1832679.html (1637 words)

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		Trajkovic, two voices of reason in Kosovo have resigned from Bernard Kouchner's UN sponsored interim council and have announced that formal defensive steps could be taken in the near future.
		He said it was easy for just about anyone to get into Kosovo and that illegal weapons were widely available following the war between ethnic Albanian rebels and Serb security forces, which ended in June when NATO bombing forced the Serbs to leave.
		The national electrical grid and urban heating plants remain damaged; water supplies are still uncertain and no aid is being provided, despite the fact that Yugoslavia has adhered to the articles of the cessation of hostilities agreement and UN Resolution 1244.
	www.siri-us.com /backissues/1999/SIT-9-22-Kosovo-DU-UNTaiwan.htm (2573 words)

	Analysis: Balkans, UNHCR position on the continued protection needs of individuals from Kosovo
		While most Kosovo Albanians are unlikely to face protection difficulties, there are certain categories of Kosovo Albanians who may face serious protection related problems, including physical danger, were they to return home at this time.
		Concerning the Goranis, with the exception of Gjilan/Gnjilane region, in particular Ferizaj/Urosevac, their security situation can likewise be considered relatively stable particularly in the rural communities of Dragash municipality which has a high concentration of Gorani.
		The circumstances faced by internally displaced persons from Kosovo, in Serbia and Montenegro lead UNHCR to maintain its general conclusion that internal displacement in such conditions does not offer an adequate or reasonable alternative to international protection, as described in UNHCR's Position on the Continued Protection Needs of Individuals from Kosovo, of April 2002.
	www.reliefweb.int /w/rwb.nsf/9ca65951ee22658ec125663300408599/904f03175455dab3c1256cbf0040aca4?OpenDocument (1676 words)

	Gorani at AllExperts
		* Gorani (Kurds), (also known as Hawrami), a small group of Kurds and their dialect of the Kurdish language in Iran and Iraq.
		* Gorani, Laconia, a village in the prefecture of Laconia, Greece.
		* Gorani, Croatia, a village near Ravna gora, Croatia.
	en.allexperts.com /e/g/go/gorani.htm (132 words)

	UNHCR - The Balkans: Kosovo
		Update on the Kosovo Roma, Ashkaelia, Egyptian, Serb, Bosniak, Gorani and Albanian communities in a minority situation
		Update on the situation of Roma, Ashkaelia, Egyptian, Bosniak and Gorani in Kosovo
		Kosovo Albanians in Asylum Countries: UNHCR Recommendations as Regards Returns
	www.unhcr.org /cgi-bin/texis/vtx/balkans-country?country=kosovo&display=protection (222 words)

	United Nations Development Programme (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		RFP for Production of documentary for SALW (Kosovo Small Arms Control Initiative) situation in Kosovo
		Blue Ribbon Series # 1 Decentralization and Local Governance in Kosovo
		Blue Ribbon Series # 2 Local Development for Decentralised Governance in Kosovo
	www.kosovo.undp.org /?cid=2,19,74 (4981 words)

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