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01 Jan 2004

Serbia + 1 other
Serbia and Montenegro Annual Appeal No. 01.74.2004

Report
— IFRC
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The International Federation's mission is to improve the lives of vulnerable people by mobilizing the power of humanity. The Federation is the world's largest humanitarian organization, and its millions of volunteers are active in over 180 countries. All international assistance to support vulnerable communities seeks to adhere to the Code of Conduct and the Humanitarian Charter and Minimum Standards in Disaster Response, according to the SPHERE Project.

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01 Jan 2004

Bosnia and Herzegovina + 4 others
Central Europe Annual Appeal 01.75/2004

Report
— IFRC
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The International Federation's mission is to improve the lives of vulnerable people by mobilizing the power of humanity. The Federation is the world's largest humanitarian organization, and its millions of volunteers are active in over 180 countries. All international assistance to support vulnerable communities seeks to adhere to the Code of Conduct and the Humanitarian Charter and Minimum Standards in Disaster Response, according to the SPHERE Project.

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31 Dec 2003

Serbia + 1 other
UN transfers final government responsibilities to Kosovo institutions

Report
— UN News Service
The United Nations Mission in Kosovo (UNMIK) has transferred a final set of responsibilities to local provisional institutions as part of its commitment to gradually introduce self-government to Kosovo.
Harri Holkeri, the Secretary-General's Special Representative for Kosovo, sent a letter today to Kosovo's Prime Minister, Bajram Rexhepi, stating that 25 "competencies" would now be carried out by Kosovo's major provisional institutions - the presidency, the government and the Kosovo assembly.

The competencies transferred include

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30 Dec 2003

Bosnia and Herzegovina + 3 others
Swiss agency helps UNHCR build homes in Montenegro

Report
— UN High Commissioner for Refugees
PODGORICA, Montenegro (UNHCR) - Sipping freshly-brewed coffee in the Vukovic family's sunny kitchen, one can hardly guess that they are refugees. Their apartment in the Montenegrin coastal town of Tivat, one of many built for displaced people across the country, is spacious, clean, neat and feels just like home.
But Vukosav and Gordana haven't always lived like this. After they fled from war-torn Sarajevo in 1992, they lived for six years under appalling conditions in one of many collective centres in what was then the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia and is now the State
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30 Dec 2003

Serbia + 1 other
UN transfers final government responsibilities to Kosovo institutions

Report
— UN News Service
The United Nations Mission in Kosovo (UNMIK) has transferred a final set of responsibilities to local provisional institutions as part of its commitment to gradually introduce self-government to Kosovo.
Harri Holkeri, the Secretary-General's Special Representative for Kosovo, sent a letter today to Kosovo's Prime Minister, Bajram Rexhepi, stating that 25 "competencies" would now be carried out by Kosovo's major provisional institutions - the presidency, the government and the Kosovo assembly.

The competencies transferred include

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30 Dec 2003

Afghanistan + 29 others
The Federal Foreign Office supported more than 300 humanitarian aid projects all over the world in 2003

Report
— Government of Germany
The Federal Foreign Office supported 307 projects for humanitarian aid, humanitarian mine clearance as well as disaster prevention all over the world in 2003 to the tune of EUR 71.5 million.
Some 237 projects totalling EUR 52.5 million received support from the humanitarian aid budget. This funding was used to look after victims of natural disasters or armed conflicts and provide life-saving commodities such as clean drinking water, food and medication. The aid projects were implemented by German non-governmental
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29 Dec 2003

Serbia + 1 other
Kosovo receives new funds from the European Union

Report
— European Commission
IP/03/1811
Brussels, 29th December 2003 The European Commission has adopted today a decision to provide Kosovo with an additional €16 million of assistance to be implemented by the European Agency for Reconstruction in Pristina. These extra funds will provide further EU support to the United Nations Mission in Kosovo (UNMIK) and Kosovo's Provisional Institutions of Self-Government (PISG) for the implementation of the Kosovo "Standards Work Plans".

Over €11 million have been earmarked for economic and social infrastructure in Kosovo's municipalities, showing

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17 Dec 2003

Serbia + 1 other
Under-Secretary-General for Peacekeeping briefs UN SC on Kosovo, highlights launch of review process for "standard before status" policy

Report
— UN Security Council


SC/7958
Security Council
4886th Meeting (AM)

Briefing the Security Council this morning on the situation in Kosovo, Under-Secretary-General Jean-Marie Guéhenno said that the past two months had been eventful politically, especially with the launch last week of a process of periodic and comprehensive reviews of implementation of the "standards before status" policy.

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16 Dec 2003

Serbia + 1 other
UN envoy urges Kosovo to aim for standards of 'normal society'

Report
— UN News Service
The senior United Nations envoy to Kosovo today urged the province to reach progress towards recently elaborated standards in order to pave the way for decisions on its future status.
Harri Holkeri, the Special Representative of Secretary-General Kofi Annan to Kosovo, said the standards - which include the holding of fair and regular elections, the establishment of an impartial legal system, and the advancement of a free media - describe "a normal society."

The future status of Kosovo, which has been under UN administration since June 1999, is still to be decided. The

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12 Dec 2003

Serbia + 1 other
UN SC, in presidential statement, expresses support for 'standards for Kosovo'

Report
— UN Security Council
SC/7951
Security Council
4880th Meeting (PM)

The Security Council this afternoon expressed support for the "Standards for Kosovo", presented on 10 December in Pristina, after hearing a briefing yesterday from Under-Secretary-General for Peacekeeping Operations, Jean-Marie Guéhenno.

The 10-page standards document sets out point-by-point the meaning of the standards, which had been set to prepare

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12 Dec 2003

Central African Republic + 9 others
USAID and Foods Resource Bank expand alliance to reduce hunger

Report
— US Agency for International Development
WASHINGTON, DC - The U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) has announced an $800,000 grant to expand a public-private alliance with Foods Resource Bank (FRB) to address hunger through unique agricultural development programs in the developing world. The USAID-FRB alliance was formed in 2002 with an initial $500,000 grant.
The FRB is a Michigan-based national organization that encourages philanthropy and unites resources in a new and visible way. Under the FRB program, U.S. farmers, paired with urban
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11 Dec 2003

Serbia + 1 other
Kosovo: Donor briefing on returns

Report
— UN Interim Administration Mission in Kosovo
UNMIK/PR/1082
PRISTINA - Today, during the meeting the PISG Inter-Ministerial Coordinator for Returns, UNMIK and UNHCR for the first time jointly briefed representatives of liaison offices on the continuing need for assistance to support the return of displaced people to Kosovo. In this annual briefing, Peggy Hicks, Director of UNMIK's Office of Returns and Communities noted that while the returns process failed to accelerate as much as had been hoped in 2003, there are encouraging prospects for better results in the coming year.

"Taking advantage of those opportunities

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11 Dec 2003

Serbia + 1 other
Serbia & Montenegro: EIB's first financing for health in the Western Balkans

Report
— European Investment Bank
The European Investment Bank (EIB), the Union's long-term financing institution, provides its first ever loan for the health sector in the Western Balkans. The EUR 50 million financing is for the emergency rehabilitation needs of some 20 hospitals in Serbia.

The agreements have been signed today in Belgrade by Mr. B. Djelic, Serbian Minister of Finance and Economy, and Mr G. Genuardi, EIB Vice-president responsible for the Western Balkans, on the occasion of his first official visit to the country. During the signing ceremony Mr. G. Genuardi, stressed that "the loan for the

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10 Dec 2003

Serbia + 1 other
SRSG and PM launch the "Standards for Kosovo"

Report
— UN Interim Administration Mission in Kosovo
UNMIK/PR/1079
PRISTINA - SRSG Harri Holkeri and Prime Minister Bajram Rexhepi today launched the "Standards for Kosovo". In front of representatives of the Provisional Institutions of Self-Government (PISG), representatives of KFOR, the liaison offices of the international communities, members of the Kosovo civil society and numerous senior UN officials, they inaugurated the document in the Pristina City Hall in the morning.
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10 Dec 2003

Serbia + 1 other
Standards for Kosovo

Report
— UN Interim Administration Mission in Kosovo
UNMIK/PR/1078
"A Kosovo where all - regardless of ethnic background, race or religion - are free to live, work and travel without fear, hostility or danger and where there is tolerance, justice and peace for everyone."

Presented Pristina, 10 December 2003

I. Functioning Democratic Institutions

The Provisional Institutions of Self-Government (PISG) are freely, fairly and democratically elected. The PISG governs in an impartial, transparent and accountable manner, consistent with UNSCR 1244 and the Constitutional Framework. The interests and needs of all Kosovo

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10 Dec 2003

Serbia + 1 other
UN presents roadmap for Kosovo

Report
— Agence France-Presse
PRISTINA, Serbia-Montenegro, Dec 10 (AFP) - The United Nations chief in Kosovo, Harri Holkeri, on Wednesday unveiled a roadmap of democratic reform that the province must achieve before its final status can be discussed.

The "Standards for Kosovo" document sets goals in areas such as the return of ethnic minority refugees, economic reform and the rule of law.

"In a sense this document represents a choice... Achieve the standards and the international community will in due course make the necessary decisions to consider Kosovo's final status,"

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10 Dec 2003

Serbia + 1 other
SRSG's speech at the launch of the "Standards for Kosovo"

Report
— UN Interim Administration Mission in Kosovo
delivered on 10 December 2003
at the City Hall Pristina
UNMIK/PR/1081

Mr. President, Prime Minister, Ladies and Gentlemen,

Today is International Human Rights day. I am glad of that because today is also an important day for Kosovo, the day when the Prime Minister and I are launching "Standards for Kosovo".

The announcement of a review date for a decision on final status has opened a new chapter. Now it is time for

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10 Dec 2003

Serbia + 1 other
Surviving day-to-day in Serbia

Report
— IFRC
by Marie-Françoise Borel in Stara Pazova
"Just give me a normal job, and I will be able to buy a house and give my children a better future." There is frustration, resentment and sadness in Gojko Grubic's voice as he thinks back on the eight years which have passed since he was forced to flee with his parents, his wife, Mira, and their two children from Benkovac, a village now in Croatia.

Mira, 38, was pregnant then with their third child. They left their house, their land, their garden by tractor on August 4, 1995, and entered Serbia on August 12. The baby was born in

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09 Dec 2003

Serbia + 1 other
Southern Serbia's fragile peace

Report
— International Crisis Group
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Europe Report N°152
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY AND RECOMMENDATIONS

The Albanian-majority Presevo Valley in southern Serbia is one of the few conflict resolution success stories in the former Yugoslavia. Yet tensions linger, and a series of violent incidents in August and September 2003 demonstrated that the peace can still unravel. Serbia's stalled reform process is preventing the political and economic changes that are needed to move forward on many critical issues in the area, and there is a general sense among local Albanians that peace

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09 Dec 2003

Serbia + 1 other
France: Aide humanitaire aux populations déplacées de Serbie centrale et méridionale en provenance du Kosovo

Report
— Government of France
Déclaration du porte-parole du Quai d'Orsay
(Paris, le 9 décembre 2003) Une subvention de 80 000 euros a été accordée par le ministère des Affaires étrangères à l'organisation humanitaire ACTED pour une action en faveur des populations déplacées de Serbie centrale et méridionale en provenance du Kosovo. Ce programme vise à aider ces populations à passer l'hiver dans des conditions décentes et à étudier avec elles les possibilités de leur retour dans les régions d'o=F9 elles sont issues. Cette action s'inscrit dans le contexte du soutien que la France apporte au dialogue instauré

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