Sunday, February 27, 2005

190 Orthodox churches ruined in Kosovo since 1999

Kosovo Serb leader Oliver Ivanovic said that Serbs should be careful about heeding the call of Kosovo Prime Minister Ramush Haradinaj for all Serb refugees to return to their homes in Kosovo.

http://www.b92.net/english/news/index.php?&nav_category=&nav_id=31425&order=priority&style=headlines

Serbian Prime Minister Vojislav Kostunica said that he could not imagine any Serbian government agreeing to giving Kosovo independence.

http://www.b92.net/english/news/index.php?&nav_category=&nav_id=31427&order=priority&style=headlines

190 Orthodox churches ruined in Kosovo since 1999 - Russian expert

http://www.interfax.ru/e/B/0/28.html?id_issue=10754134

Saturday, February 26, 2005

Standards For Final Status Talks Not Reached

Standards For Final Status Talks Not Reached

http://www.europaworld.org/week213/kosovo25205.htm

WASHINGTON - Soldiers in combat, too busy or too far from home to file their taxes, get special exceptions at tax time. The assistance includes flexible filing deadlines, tax-free combat pay and delayed audits. Soldiers can qualify if they served in designated combat zones, which currently include regions in the Arabian Peninsula, Afghanistan and Kosovo. A combat zone includes the airspace over a designated region, and those considered in the combat zone include personnel who serve in direct support of combat operations and receive hostile fire or imminent danger pay.

http://msnbc.msn.com/id/7018476/

Jessen-Petersen believes there is a good chance status talks can begin in the second half of this year.
"I am not saying that Mr. Covic or Belgrade doesn't have a right to be critical or worried. There are reasons," Jessen-Petersen said. "But what I do object to is you go through a litany of issues that have been raised so many times and you ignore the facts on the ground and I used security as one example. How can you talk about insecurity, lots of incidents, when the facts are that there hasn't been one single [ethnic incident] since June?"

http://www.rferl.org/featuresarticle/2005/02/f664b582-cfa6-498a-9d6c-b9bb0a018c72.html

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