Feith calls displaced Serbs to return to Kosovo
EU special representative for Kosovo Pieter Feith said Tuesday that the security situation is much better than before and called on the displaced Serbs to return to Kosovo.
(KosovoCompromise Staff) Wednesday, May 20, 2009
During a visit to the village of Svinjare, close to Kosovska Mitrovica, which was destroyed in the 2004 March pogrom, Feith said that several years after the conflict in Kosovo, the situation has reached the point that the return should be carried out if there is a political will for this.
Minister for Communities and Return in the provisional Kosovo government, Sasa Rasic, also called on the displaced, primarily the Serbs, to return to their homes.
Rasic said that his ministry, with the aid of the international community would secure all the conditions for the returnees to coduct a normal life in their environments.
The mayor of the southern part of Kosovska Mitrovica, Bajram Rexhepi, said that the returning Serbs are welcome.
"We can ask for more police and secure a bus under escort on the Svinjare - Zvecan route for all going to and returning from work or for the school children", Rexhepi stated.
In Svinjare, about 137 houses have been rebuilt for the returning Serbs, but among the 1,000 ethnic Albanians living there, there is only one Serb out of the pre-1999 total of 400.
