Kosovska Mitrovica

Kosovo office head "confident" Serbs will "prove innocence"

KOSOVSKA MITROVICA -- Serbian Government Office for Kosovo Director Marko Đurić said on Tuesday that Serbia stands firmly behind the five Serb defendants in Kosovo.

KOSOVSKA MITROVICA - Leader of the Citizen Initiative Freedom, Democracy, Justice (GI SDP) Oliver Ivanovic has pleaded not guilty before the court of first instance in Kosovska Mitrovica on all counts of the indictment for involvement in war crimes in 1999 and 2000.

"I am absolutely not guilty," he replied to judge Roxana Comsa.

ZVECAN – The 18th edition of the cultural event Sokolica 2014 has began in the town of Zvecan in northern Kosovo-Metohija (KiM).

The event was opened by President of the Zvecan arts and culture center Slavisa Miljkovic on Monday evening. Also present was Zlata Radovanovic, coordinator of the Serbian government’s KiM Office in Zvecan.

KOSOVSKA MITROVICA - The first hearing in the case against leader of the Citizens' Initiative “Freedom, Democracy, Justice” (GI SDP) Oliver Ivanovic and four other Serbs suspected of committing war crimes and aggravated murder will be held at the Basic Court in Kosovska Mitrovica on Tuesday, EULEX spokeswoman Dragana Nikolic-Solomon said Monday.

KOSOVSKA MITROVICA - The leader of the Citizens' Initiative "Freedom, Democracy, Justice" (GI SDP) Oliver Ivanovic will for the first time appear before a judge of the northern Kosovska Mitrovica Basic Court on Tuesday and plead on the indictment charging him with war crime and incitement to murder.

Serbs in north "not increasingly happy with EULEX"

KOSOVSKA MITROVICA -- Goran Rakić has rejected the assessment of EULEX chief Bernd Borhardt that residents of northern Kosovo all increasingly satisfied with the EU mission.

Rakić serves as mayor of northern Kosovska Mitrovica.

EULEX: No secret indictments against Serbs

BELGRADE -- Head of the EU mission in Kosovo (EULEX) Bernd Borchardt "has rejected claims that Kosovo Serbs do not trust EULEX," Tanjug is reporting.

BELGRADE - Head of EULEX Kosovo Bernd Borchardt jas rejected the claims that the Kosovo Serbs do not trust EULEX, adding that the citizens of Kosovo who have not committed any crimes have nothing to fear, because there are no secret lists or secret indictments against Kosovo Serbs.

NOVI SAD - Oliver Ivanovic, leader of the Citizens' Initiative 'Freedom, Democracy, Justice“ (SDP) and the most famous prisoner in Kosovo-Metohija (KiM), said Sunday that the participation of KiM Serbs in the new government in Pristina, in full coordination with the Serbian government, could prove a far more efficient way to promote their vital interests.

"EULEX indirectly hindering agreement"

KOSOVSKA MITROVICA -- Self-government representatives from northern Kosovo have said that EU mission EULEX is "indirectly hindering the implementation of the Brussels agreement."