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September 17, 2001 - 15:38 CET

Covic meets with Haekkerup again

The main topics of the third round of talks held between Serbian Deputy Prime Minister Nebojsa Covic and UNMIK's chief Hans Haekkerup on Friday, September 7, were Kosovska Mitrovica, Serb participation in local government, imprisoned Serbs and missing persons

Nebojsa Covic

Serbian Prime Minister Zoran Djindjic told a press conference on Thursday that discussion on the internal relations within DOS was "over and done with as far as I'm concerned", and that the country had neglected its real, reform-related priorities over the past two months MORE

Public debate on the Draft Law on Labour is drawing to a close and after the objections of the Working group are summed up, it will be brought before the Government and the Parliament - announced Serbian Minister of Labour and Employment Dragan Milovanovic after today's meeting with the managing board of Electric Power Industry of Serbia (EPS) and its trade unions MORE

-The Serbian Interior Ministry has formed a special team to conduct intensive enquiry into the murder of Momir Gavrilovic. So far we still have no concrete evidence pointing either to the person who carried out the crime or to the person who ordered it - captain Dragan Karleusa said on Tuesday MORE

Serbian Minister of Justice and Local Self-Government Vladan Batic at the press conference held on Friday, August 24 denied "malicious accusations of legalists on the work of the Ministry"; "Serbia-Info" brings the whole text of Minister Batic's public statement as well as the resignation of the former head of the State Security Service Radomir Markovic MORE

The privatisation of the three cement factories, namely those in Beocin, Kosjeric and Novi Popovac, has been launched by the selection of the finance and legal advisers, it was said at the press conference given by the Economy and Privatisation Ministry and the Agency for Privatisation on Friday MORE

On the basis of 150 interviews held in the course of the investigation into the murder of Momir Gavrilovic, this former State Security Service officer is revealed to have been involved in Belgrade liquidations, extortion and blackmail, Dragan Karleusa, deputy head of the Serbian Interior Ministry organized crime unit told the press conference on Tuesday MORE

The US Alliance to Save Energy (ASE), the Serbian Mining and Energy Ministry and the Electric Power Industry of Serbia (EPS) launched a campaign for selling insulating tapes on credit to the biggest electric power consumers MORE

"I will be meeting the UNMIK chief Hans Haekerrup around the middle of this week," said the Serbian Deputy Prime Minister Nebojsa Covic, adding that the return to of the first Serbian families displaced from Kosovo should be looked upon as a humanitarian action MORE

"Kosovo Liberation Army aims to carry out open terrorist attacks and other provocations in order to keep tensions high in this area, and we can expect this trend to continue in the upcoming period", Serbian Assistant Interior Minister Goran Petrovic told a press conference on Monday MORE

In the course of his three-day visit to Greece of the Serb Minister of Urban Planning and Civil Engineering, Dragoslav Sumarac, a deal was reached on the hiring of Serb builders for the construction of the infrastructure for the Olympics; realisation of four HABITAT housing projects in Serbia has also been envisaged MORE

The local self-governing draft law foresees direct election of the president of the municipality and the mayor, the two functions, which constitute the executive, the introduction of an ombudsman office and substantial extension of municipal authority MORE

On the basis of suspicion of war crimes committed against civilian population on March 28 1999, the Prokuplje District Attorney submitted on July 11 this year a request for launching a criminal investigation and a proposal for the remanding in custody of Sasa Cvjetan, from Novi Sad, and of another person whose identity was not revealed in the interest of the investigation MORE

Three male bodies, shot at close range, blindfolded and hands tied with wire, were found atop a heap of bodies in a pit at Petrovo Selo, near Kladovo. The Kursumlija Magistrate Court document found on the bodies indicates the identity of the victims as Chicago-born brothers Bytyqui: Agron (1978), Mehmet (1976), and Ylli (1974) MORE

Gordana Matkovic, Minister of Social Affairs of the Republic of Serbia, on the DM10m donations of the Italian government to 66 social welfare institutions in Serbia MORE