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01 Jan 2003

Serbia + 1 other
UNHCR position on the continued protection needs of individuals from Kosovo

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— UN High Commissioner for Refugees
January 2003
Introduction:

1. This paper is an update of UNHCR's position on the continued protection needs of individuals from Kosovo, and return there, as outlined in the previous position paper of April 2002.

2. The focus of this paper is primarily on the continued need of international protection of minority groups originating from Kosovo. The vast majority of Kosovo Albanians who fled during the 1999 crisis have returned home, and few of them have experienced individual protection problems. Groups of Kosovo Albanians who may have residual protection

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01 Jan 2003

Serbia + 1 other
UNHCR: Update on the situation of Roma, Ashkaelia, Egyptian, Bosniak and Gorani in Kosovo

Report
— UN High Commissioner for Refugees
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UNHCR Kosovo, January 2003
TABLE OF CONTENTS

INTRODUCTION
PART 1: TRENDS IN SECURITY AND FREEDOM OF MOVEMENT

  • 1.A Situation of Roma, Ashkaelia, Egyptian, Bosniak and Gorani since the UNHCR/OSCE 9th Minorities Assessment (April 2002)
  • 1.B Comparative situation of ethnic Serbs during the same period
PART 2: SITUATION OF MINORITY GROUPS BY REGION, WITH SPECIAL FOCUS ON CONDUCIVENESS TO RETURN
  • 2.A Roma, Ashkaelia and Egyptian
    - Pristina Region
    - Gjilan/Gnjilane Region
    - Prizren Region
    - Peje/Pec Region
    - Mitrovica Region
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31 Dec 2002

Afghanistan + 31 others
ICRC Overview of Operations 2003

Report
— ICRC
This document supplements the ICRC's Headquarters Appeal 2003and contains:
  • an overview of the ICRC's operations in 2003
  • a description of its presence in the field
  • a breakdown of its operational organization
  • a description of its target populations
  • a concise description of its programmes
  • a brief description of its 63 delegations
  • overall budget amounts
  • overall budget and budgets by programme for each delegation
The ICRC's operations in 2003 and the respective budget figures are presented in detail
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30 Dec 2002

Serbia + 1 other
Kosovo: Steiner, Rugova, Kadare discuss future status

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— Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty
By Jolyon Naegele
As 2002 draws to a close, RFE/RL's Kosovo Unit has asked three leading personalities to give their views on the most pressing issues facing Kosovo, including the return of displaced persons and the future status of the international protectorate.

Prague, 30 December 2002 (RFE/RL) -- Kosovo's final status is a hot potato that no one, except for the province's Albanian majority, seems to have any desire to deal with.

The international community's chief administrator for the province, Michael Steiner, has blocked attempts by Kosovo's ethnic

Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty:

© RFE/RL, Inc. All Rights Reserved.

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30 Dec 2002

Serbia + 1 other
Kosovar President repeats call for independence

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— Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty
In a televised interview on 27 December, President Ibrahim Rugova called on the international community to recognize the independence of Kosova, saying this would contribute to the region's peace and stability, RFE/RL's South Slavic and Albanian Languages Service reported. Rugova stressed the considerable progress the province made in all aspects of life in 2002, including the functioning of Kosovar institutions as well as the beginnings of integration by ethnic minorities. Though the international community recognizes positive developments in the province,
Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty:

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30 Dec 2002

Serbia + 1 other
Back to the future - A principal works to improve his school in southern Serbia

Report
— Mercy Corps
It is not difficult for Ismet Sacirovic to envision what he wants the school in his hometown Mur in southern Serbia to become.
"Thinking back some 25 years when I was a student here, I remember that it was one of the best rural schools with clean water, new desks and chairs, and other school supplies," Sacirovic says.

More than two and a half decades of deteriorating conditions and insufficient funding have left the schools in Mur in a state of disrepair - uncomfortable for students and teachers, an eyesore for

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27 Dec 2002

Serbia + 1 other
Kosovo Humanitarian Update Nov-Dec 2002

Report
— UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs
Highlights:
  • On a two-day official visit to Kosovo, the UN SG MR. Kofi Annan came to Kosovo and met with UN senior management, political leadership and ordinary citizens of multi-ethnic villages. He made positive remarks on the Kosovo progress.

  • A delegation representing all 15-member states of the UN Security Council visited Kosovo to review the progress made over the last 18 months and visited different sites and met with range of senior UN and PISG officials.

  • Local politicians have been raising
UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs:

To learn more about OCHA's activities, please visit http://unocha.org/.

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26 Dec 2002

Afghanistan + 13 others
The year in review: Good news, bad news

Report
— UN High Commissioner for Refugees
GENEVA, Dec. 26 (UNHCR) - They returned by foot or occasionally on horseback. They came jammed in pickups, on motor scooters and buses. Groups of families surrounded by donkeys, suitcases, satellite dishes and huge wooden beams from their old homes, perched precariously atop convoys of trucks resembling overcrowded fairground gondolas swathed in a kaleidoscope of colors.
Following 23 years of war and the worst drought in living memory, travellers were often greeted on their return with scenes drawn from Dante's Inferno. "Look at my hair. It went
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26 Dec 2002

Serbia + 1 other
FRY - Focus on Kosovo Appeal No. 01.46/2002 Programme Update No. 3

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— IFRC
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The Federation's mission is to improve the lives of vulnerable people by mobilizing the power of humanity. It is the world's largest humanitarian organization and its millions of volunteers are active in 178 countries. For more information: www.ifrc.org
Appeal Target: 2,482,904 CHF
Period covered: July-November 2002;

IN BRIEF

Appeal coverage: 99.1%
Related Appeals: N/A
Outstanding needs: Donors are encouraged to focus their support on the 2003 Annual Appeal for the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia - Kosovo (no. 01.75/2003)

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25 Dec 2002

Bosnia and Herzegovina + 4 others
Balkan reforms in the balance as world moves on

Report
— Agence France-Presse
By Stephen Coates

BELGRADE, Dec 25 (AFP) - The scars of the Balkan wars healed slowly this year, but the legacy of ethnic hatred, political turmoil, economic ruin and organised crime will continue to fester in 2003, even as the world moves on.

The unsteady young democracies of southeastern Europe will have to shoulder more and more of the burden for their own transition in the coming year, as the world crashes toward new crises and yesterday's flashpoints are forgotten.

Whether they can take the tough decisions

Agence France-Presse:

©AFP: The information provided in this product is for personal use only. None of it may be reproduced in any form whatsoever without the express permission of Agence France-Presse.

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24 Dec 2002

Serbia + 1 other
Kosovo: Monthly report to the UN on KFOR operations (S/2002/1421)

Report
— UN Security Council
S/2002/1421
Letter dated 23 December 2002 from the Secretary-General addressed to the President of the Security Council

Pursuant to Security Council resolution 1244 (1999), I have the honour to convey the attached report on the international security presence in Kosovo, covering the period 1 to 30 November 2002 (see annex).

I should be grateful if you would bring the present letter and its annex to the attention of the members of the Security Council.

(Signed) Kofi A. Annan

Annex

Monthly report to the United Nations on KFOR operations

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23 Dec 2002

Serbia + 1 other
Kosovo: Comment - "Legalised" division of Mitrovica

Report
— Institute for War and Peace Reporting
The UN Mitrovica agreement effectively legitimises the Serbian parallel structures it claimed it wanted to remove.
By Nexhmedin Spahiu in Mitrovica (BCR No. 393, 23-Dec-02)

A much-trumpeted UN sponsored agreement to reunify Mitrovica in northern Kosovo now appears to have practically legalised the division of the town instead.

The chief of United Nations Mission in Kosovo, UNIMK, Michael Steiner, signed the accord with Serbian deputy prime minister Nebojsa Covic on November 25. Ostensibly, it was intended to loosen

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23 Dec 2002

Serbia + 1 other
Kosovo: Governing Mitrovica - A critical crossroads

Report
— Institute for War and Peace Reporting
COMMENT
What lies in store for northern Mitrovica - gradual reintegration into the rest of Kosovo or institutionalised separation?

By Valerie Percival in Pristina (BCR No. 393, 23-Dec-02)

For almost three and a half years, the troubled city of Mitrovica has been a thorn in the side of the United Nations Mission in Kosovo, UNMIK. Rocked by frequent uprisings and an apparently unbridgeable gulf between Albanians and Serbs, the city epitomises the ethnic fault-line that characterises Kosovo.

The northern part of the city has been

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23 Dec 2002

Serbia + 1 other
Monthly report to the UN on the operations of the Kosovo Force (S/2002/1404)

Report
— UN Security Council
S/2002/1404
Letter dated 20 December 2002 from the Secretary-General addressed to the President of the Security Council

Pursuant to Security Council resolution 1244 (1999), I have the honour to convey the report on the international security presence in Kosovo covering the period from 1 to 31 October 2002 (see annex).

I should be grateful if you would bring it to the attention of the members of the Security Council.

(Signed) Kofi A. Annan

Annex

Monthly report to the United Nations on the operations of the Kosovo Force

1. Over the reporting period (1-31 October

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20 Dec 2002

Albania + 5 others
IOM press briefing notes 20 Dec 2002: Balkans and Eastern Europe

Report
— International Organization for Migration
Spokesperson: Christopher Lom
ITALY - Italy Backs IOM Programmes in the Balkans and Eastern Europe - The Italian government has announced over EUR 2.1 million in funding for three IOM projects to be implemented in the Balkans in 2003 and over EUR 113,000 to a new IOM counter trafficking initiative in Eastern Europe.=A0=A0

The Balkan projects include a EUR 1.1 million psychological and trauma response initiative for war victims in Serbia; a EUR 520, 000 counter trafficking initiative in Albania, Croatia, Montenegro, Kosovo and the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia (FYROM);

International Organization for Migration:

Copyright © IOM. All rights reserved.

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20 Dec 2002

Bosnia and Herzegovina + 2 others
Comment: Reconciliation key to Kosovo's future

Report
— Institute for War and Peace Reporting
Without prior reconciliation between Serbs and Albanians, there is not sense in discussing Kosovo's final status.
By Nebojsa Covic in Belgrade (BCR No. 392, 20-Dec-02)

The Kosovo-Metohija issue is widely seen as insoluble. I do not agree with this, however, though if I now maintain there are no insoluble issues, as I intend to, I hope no one will accuse me of relying on unfounded optimism. On the contrary, my optimism is well founded, and, I believe, entirely rational.

There may be hard and headache-inducing obstacles, but none are insurmountable.

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20 Dec 2002

Serbia + 1 other
Switzerland supports the restoration of housing and property rights in Kosovo

Report
— UN Interim Administration Mission in Kosovo
Pristina - Head of Swiss Office in Pristina, Mr. Hans-Peter Fischer, and DSRSG for Civil Administration, Mr. Francesco Bastagli, signed today a funding agreement with the Swiss Government, granting 550,000 Swiss Francs (376,000 euros) for the work of the Housing and Property Directorate (HPD).
"On behalf of UNMIK, I would like to thank the Swiss Government for their continued support of HPD. This and other recent contributions are reinforcing the organisation and allowing it to implement its mandate", Mr. Bastagli said.

HPD is mandated to resolve residential

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20 Dec 2002

Serbia + 1 other
Fundraisers witness the vital work of Christian Aid's partners in Kosovo

Report
— Christian Aid
A group of churchgoers from the West Midlands has returned from a two-week Christian Aid fact-finding mission in Kosovo to see how much money raised has been spent. Volunteers John Innes, from Solihull, Merryn Hellier, from Hereford and Philip and Mary Wetherall, from Malvern, were there to see what has been achieved in the region since the Balkans conflict that dominated the news headlines three years ago.
During 1999 more than one million people, mostly Kosovo Albanians, fled for their lives with whatever possessions
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19 Dec 2002

Serbia + 1 other
Notable progress' in Kosovo but more needs to be done, Security Council told

Report
— UN News Service
A Security Council delegation has found "notable progress" in Kosovo but much work remains to be done in several areas, including the rule of law and the return of minority communities, according to a report released today at United Nations Headquarters in New York.
The report of the Council delegation that visited Kosovo and Belgrade, Federal Republic of Yugoslavia from 14 to 17 December notes that the elections for the Kosovo Assembly in 2001 and the municipal ballot earlier this year led to the formation of the

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