Trepča Mines

Serbian Prime Minister Aleksander Vucic insisted on Sunday that the Trepca Mines, a huge and potentially lucrative mining complex in the Mitrovica area of northern Kosovo, will remain under Belgrade's control.

Striking Trepca miners on Friday announced that they were suspending further strike action for a month, to give the government time to decide the future of the complex.

The temporary suspension of the strike was decided following negotiations between the miners and the manager of Trepca, Ahmet Tmava.

Around 725 Kosovo Albanian miners in the middle and southern chain of the Trepca mining complex on Thursday decided to continue their strike, announced at 4 pm, around six hours after starting a meeting on Thursday.

They said the strike would continue and they would soon send their full list of requests to the Prime Minister, Isa Mustafa.

PRISTINA - The Kosovo government said Tuesday that the Mining, Metallurgical and Chemical Combine Trepca was "Kosovo's property" and that any attempt to create confusion that it was allegedly given up was malicious.

Serbs to be included in Trepca decision-making - report

PRISTINA -- Albanian language daily Koha Ditore writes on Tuesday that the Kosovo government has abandoned the intention to turn Trepca into a public company.

The Pristina-based newspaper adds that a possible change in the status of the mining company will be decided only with the consent of Serbs.

Controversial draft law on Trepca withdrawn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.

BELGRADE - Serbian President Tomislav Nikolic conferred on Wednesday with a delegation of the Trepca mining complex, headed by Director General Jovan Dimkic.

Nikolic stressed the significance of the agreement on business and technical cooperation that the company has signed with the US-based New Generation Power (NGP) consortium, the presidential press office said in a statement.