Kosovo government

Vladeta Kostic, the candidate of the Belgrade-backed Civic Initiative "Srpska", was elected as the new mayor of Gracanica on Sunday with 65 per cent of the votes.

A vote in the Kosovo Assembly intended to partially privatise the Trepca mine complex, with the government of Kosovo holding the majority of the shares, was postponed just before the start of the parliamentary session on Monday.

The mine complex was Kosovo's most profitable conglomerate during the Yugoslav period before falling into disrepair.

Controversial draft law on Trepca withdrawn

PRISTINA, BELGRADE -- The assembly of Kosovo will not discuss a law concerning the Trepca mining complex on Monday, it has been announced in Pristina.

ZVECAN - Trepca workers from northern Kosovo staged protests in the municipalities of Zvecan, Zubin Potok and Leposavic on Monday against a new bill the Kosovo government had adopted regarding a change of ownership in that company to turn it into a public enterprise.

Government "will not allow Trepca to be taken"

BELGRADE -- The government "will not accept" a unilateral decision of Pristina to take over the ownership of the Mining, Metallurgical and Chemical Combine Trepca.

BELGRADE - The Serbian government will not accept the unilateral decision of the Kosovo government to take over the ownership of the Mining, Metallurgical and Chemical Combine Trepca, because the Republic of Serbia Development Fund owns a majority stake in the mines, Director of the Serbian government's Office for Kosovo-Metohija (KiM) Marko Djuric said Sunday.

ZVECAN - If adopted in the Kosovo assembly, the bill amending the law on public enterprises could destabilise the situation in northern Kosovo and put the implementation of the Brussels Agreement in jeopardy, Jovan Dimkic, general manager of the Mining, Metallurgical and Chemical Combine Trepca, warned on Friday.

Mine takeover "could trigger unrest in north Kosovo"

ZVECAN -- If adopted in the Kosovo assembly, a bill amending the law on public enterprises could destabilize the situation in northern Kosovo, says Jovan Dimkic.

Takeover of mine "would deal heavy blow to Kosovo talks"

BELGRADE -- Aleksandar Vucic says a unilateral decision of the Kosovo government to take over Trepca "would deal a heavy blow to the Belgrade-Pristina dialogue."

BELGRADE - Serbian Prime Minister Aleksandar Vucic said Thursday that the unilateral decision of the Kosovo government to take over the ownership of Mining, Metallurgical and Chemical Combine Trepca would deal a heavy blow to the Belgrade-Pristina dialogue.