Kosovo

KOSOVSKA MITROVICA - The four municipalities in northern Kosovo-Metohija scheduled separate sessions on Wednesday to adopt municipal charters, and Ksenija Bozovic, president of the municipal assembly of northern Mitrovica, has said that draft charters are status-neutral.

BRUSSELS - John Clint Williamson,lead prosecutor for the EULEX Special Investigative Task Force investigating the allegations presented in the report by Dick Marty,returned from a two-day visit to Pristina on Tuesday, where he underlined the need for bringing the investigation into the human organ trafficking to a close without pre-judgment and speculation.

BELGRADE - Serbian Prime Minister Ivica Dacic stated on Tuesday that the statement by Gerhard Schroeder, former chancellor of Germany, that the 1999 air campaign against Serbia constituted a violation of international law has no legal significance for Serbia except that it proves what Serbia has always claimed - that the bombing was an aggression rather than a peacekeeping operation.

BELGRADE - The Republic Electoral Commission (RIK) issued an approval for monitoring the work of bodies in charge of parliamentary elections on March 16 to the delegation of the Central Electoral Commission of the Russian Federation, diplomats of the Bulgarian Embassy and a delegation of the Inter-parliamentary Assembly of Member Nations of the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS).

Kosovo faces water shortages

BELGRADE - Political leader of Serbs in north Kosovo-Metohija Oliver Ivanovic has been in solitary confinement in Pristina as of Saturday, and his health has deteriorated, Ivanovic's wife Milena told Tanjug on Monday.

“I visited Oliver in the detention unit in Pristina. This is the seventh day in a row that he is on a hunger strike. His health was very poor today,” she said.

KLINA - Oliver Ivanovic, who is on a hunger strike in detention in Pristina, is facing irreversible health consequences, Serbian Minister without portfolio for Kosovo-Metohija Aleksandar Vulin said on Monday, requesting that Ivanovic be allowed a transfer to a detention unit in Kosovska Mitrovica.

ZVECAN - The steering team for the community of Serb municipalities, the head of the Kosovska Mitrovica district and the mayors of the four municipalities in northern Kosovo-Metohija have requested from international representatives in the province that Oliver Ivanovic be immediately transferred from a detention unit in Pristina to a detention unit in Kosovska Mitrovica.

NATO and Serbia strive to strengthen co-operation in Kosovo

KOSOVSKA MITROVICA - Serbia's Minister without Portfolio in charge of Kosovo-Metohija (KiM) Aleksandar Vulin said in Kosovska Mitrovica that KiM will always be a priority for the Serbian government and all its bodies, and that Serbia will not cease to care for its people in Kosovo.