Mitrovica, Kosovo

KOSOVSKA MITROVICA - The so-called Kosovo Police said on Monday it had arrested a Serb suspected of allegedly having committed a war crime.

In a statement, it said the 70-year-old man, identified with the initials Z N, had been arrested in the north of Kosovska Mitrovica for allegedly committing a "war crime against civilians - sexual violence" in the Vucitrn municipality in 1999.

KOSOVSKA MITROVICA - A Serbian flag believed to have been removed from the Zvecan Fortress in the north of Kosovo-Metohija last night has been put back into place, a Tanjug correspondent reported.

It remains unknown who, and when, removed the tricolour flag and its post.

KOSOVSKA MITROVICA - Kosovo-Metohija Serbs gathered at a mass protest rally in northern Kosovska Mitrovica on Monday to call on the international community to ban Pristina's unilateral decision to abolish the Serbian dinar and point out that Serbs in the province were disenfranchised and deprived of the basic living conditions.

KOSOVSKA MITROVICA - A member of the Serbian Gendarmerie who was detained at the Jarinje administrative crossing on Friday has been released from a police station in the south of Kosovska Mitrovica after several hours of questioning, the regional deputy chief of the so-called Kosovo Police told Tanjug.

BELGRADE - The head of the Serbian government Office for Kosovo-Metohija Petar Petkovic said on Friday that, by land-grabbing in a Serb-majority municipality, Pristina PM Albin Kurti's "occupation gauleiter" in northern Kosovska Mitrovica had taken a new step towards militarisation and occupation of the north of Kosovo-Metohija by Kurti's parapolice.

KOSOVSKA MITROVICA - The head of the EU Office in Kosovo-Metohija Tomas Szunyog spoke with newly-elected Srpska lista leader Zlatan Elek on Monday to discuss the upcoming local elections and the Belgrade-Pristina dialogue.

KOSOVSKA MITROVICA - A Srpska lista delegation headed by the organisation's President Zlatan Elek met with Eulex chief Maj Gen Giovanni Pietro Barbano in Kosovska Mitrovica on Monday to discuss the political and security situation in Kosovo-Metohija.

KOSOVSKA MITROVICA - Pristina's police on Wednesday carried out searches on several locations in the north of Kosovo-Metohija in connection with the Banjska case.

In a statement to Tanjug, the regional deputy chief of the so-called Kosovo Police said no arrests had been made for the time being.

The session will be held starting at 12 o'clock at the party's headquarters, on Kralj Petar I street in Kosovska Mitrovica, Serb List announced.
Elek was elected at the assembly of the Serb List, which has been held in North Mitrovica.
Dr Elek is the director of KBC Kosovska Mitrovica, and he will replace Goran Rai as President of Srpska Lista.

KOSOVSKA MITROVICA - Zlatan Elek has been elected new president of Srpska lista, it was confirmed to Tanjug on Tuesday.

He was elected to the position by an electoral assembly of the political organisation of Kosovo-Metohija Serbs.

Elek succeeds Goran Rakic in the post.