BELGRADE, Sept 18 (Hina) - Forty thousand displaced Kosovo Serbs will gather in Merdar, on the Kosovo-Serbia administrative border, on September 21, in an attempt to peacefully return to their homes, the chief of the Return to Kosovo
Committee, Miroslav Solevic, said on Wednesday.
BELGRADE, Sept 18 (Hina) - Forty thousand displaced Kosovo Serbs
will gather in Merdar, on the Kosovo-Serbia administrative border,
on September 21, in an attempt to peacefully return to their homes,
the chief of the Return to Kosovo Committee, Miroslav Solevic, said
on Wednesday. #L#
"No one will be able to either enter or exit Kosovo and Metohija
until our conditions are met," said Solevic, announcing a three-day
rally which envisages road blocks between Nis and Pristina to last
six hours the first, ten hours the second, and the whole day the last
day.
Solevic's Committee demands the immediate ensuring of the return of
5,000 displaced "to locations they will determine", the return of
7,500 employees with the Serbian power utility company to jobs in
Kosovo, the return of some 1,600 post and telecommunications
workers, and that each family be allocated one-off assistance of
EUR1,000 "so that they may be ready for the coming winter."
The displaced will stay in Merdar and block the Nis-Pristina road
around the clock until their demands are met, said Solevic.
He was a Kosovo Serb leader in the late 1980s who helped the rise of
Slobodan Milosevic. He left the province in 1989 due to pressure.
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