Kosovo Serbs

KOSOVSKA MITROVICA - The Srpska List called on Albanian leaders in Kosovo-Metohija and representatives of the Kosovo government and parliament to pass a bill setting up a court that would try war crimes committed by the Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA), and thus contribute to reconciliation.

BELGRADE - The 22nd Kopaonik Business Forum will be held from March 3 to 5 and it will gather over 500 participants including economic experts, government members, diplomats, media figures and businessmen.

The Forum will be organised by the Serbian Association of Economists and the Serbian Association of Corporate Directors.

BELGRADE - Labor Minister Aleksandar Vulin called on Serbian citizens on Sunday to visit tourist destinations in Kosovo-Metohija (KiM) as this province has much to offer, and pointed to Mt. Brezovica and cultural, historical and religious monuments.

OBILIC - A Serbian Orthodox cemetery near Obilic and a cemetery just outside Gnjilane, southern Kosovo, have been desecrated over the past few days by unknown perpetrators.

Tombstones in the cemetery in Krusevac, a village near Obilic, have been knocked over and burned, the Eparchy of Raska and Prizren of the Serbian Orthodox Church has said in a statement.

Serb graves desecrated in two cemeteries in Kosovo

OBILIC -- Graves in two Serbian Orthodox cemeteries in Kosovo have been desecrated, the Serbian Orthodox Church (SPC) Raska-Prizren Diocese has announced.

The incidents happened in the village of Krusevac near Obilic and Donji Livoc near Gnjilane.

A prosecution witness said he saw Kosovo Serb political party leader Oliver Ivanovic with a group of paramilitary policemen who executed four ethnic Albanians in Mitrovica in April 1999.

BELGRADE - The head of the Serbian government Office for Kosovo-Metohija Marko Djuric on Wednesday thanked Austrian writer Peter Handke for his many years of support and assistance to Serbia and his love for the Serbian people, in particular, for the citizens of Kosovo-Metohija.

"Dangers produced by Kosovo precedent become clear"

BELGRADE -- Serbian Government Office for Kosovo Director Marko Djuric says the clear dangers produced by "the Kosovo precedent" are now becoming evident.

BELGRADE - Austrian writer Peter Handke, known as a great friend of the Serbian people particularly in Kosovo-Metohija, arrived with his wife in Serbia on Friday, where he will stay until February 18, reads a release by the Office for Kosovo-Metohija (KiM).

BELGRADE - The Association of Families of Kidnapped and Missing Persons in Kosovo-Metohija (KiM) sent an open letter to top state officials on Friday, demanding that they raise the question of abducted and murdered Serbs before all international institutions and in contacts with international officials.