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Series of proposals for resolving new problems in Kosovo to be prepared

Belgrade, 11 March 2008

Serbian Assistant Minister for Kosovo-Metohija Ljubomir Kljakic said today that this ministry is preparing a series of proposals that it will send to UNMIK and the UN to resolve newly emerged problems in the province.

Kljakic told Beta news agency that the proposals will include solutions to the problems of confiscated medicines and sanitary articles and the halting of railway traffic in northern Kosovo-Metohija.

He said that the entire dispute over the interception of sanitary articles intended for the hospital in Gracanica is a political decision in order to put pressure on Serbia and its institutions in Kosovo-Metohija. Solving that problem depends on the political will of Kosovo’s institutions.

According to him, solving this problem will require greater engagement by both UNMIK and the relevant Serbian ministries.

Kljakic recalled that on March 3 the Kosovo police confiscated a consignment of medicines, medical equipment and sanitary articles worth RSD 3.5 million intended for the Clinical Centre in Gracanica and the treatment of patients in central Kosovo, and handed it over to UNMIK customs in the southern part of Kosovska Mitrovica.

Because of that the Serbian Ministry for Kosovo-Metohija sent a request on March 7 to UNMIK chief Joachim Ruecker to solve the problem of the confiscated medicines, but the ministry got no response, the assistant minister said and added that so far there have been no problems with the supply of medicines to health institutions in the province.

According to him, the Ministry asked Ruecker to solve that problem in accordance with an UNMIK regulation which specifies that all kinds of goods can enter Kosovo without any impediments if they are not used for further sale and if they are for humanitarian needs.

The assistant minister said that the Clinical Centre in Gracanica is the largest medical institution in Kosovo, which operates as part of the system of the Republic of Serbia, and added that all medicines and equipment which are used there were tested by the competent agency for medicines in Belgrade.