Minister, veterans meet, no agreement
A meeting between Defense Minister Dragan Šutanovac and war veterans from Kuršumlija yielded no results.
Tuesday, 25.09.2007.
10:14
A meeting between Defense Minister Dragan Sutanovac and war veterans from Kursumlija yielded no results. Sutanovac met Tuesday with a delegation of the former army reservists protesting unpaid wages for their service in Kosovo in 1999, and agreed to send legal representatives of the Ministry to Kursumlija to meet with the veterans’ lawyers and go over their documentation. Minister, veterans meet, no agreement The ministry claims that all wages have been paid and that some reservists collected the money in 1999 “more than once”. Nonetheless, ex-servicemen, who say that some of them received nothing, while some did get only a part of the sum, do not plan to back down from their demands. Sutanovac said the reservists "had no right to protest as they had already obtained their wages." He showed the delegation all documentation related to the alleged payments during the meeting today. According to Sutanovac, lawyers manipulated the reservists into suing the Serbian Army claiming the documentation kept in the ministry was destroyed. In his word, not all of reservists collected their wages in full, adding however that some of them managed to double the sum. “The ministry will look into all these cases,” Sutanovac promised. The reservist said afterwards that today’s meeting "solved nothing," claiming that even though the documents may exists, "the ministry cannot prove that all reservists received what was their due." “Tomorrow, when our lawyers meet with the representatives of the Defense Ministry, we will have the complete picture." "If it is possible that lawyers and judges did not know the law, and if it turns out that the Army has been right all this time, we will end our protest,” said Dejan Milosevic, one of the protest organizers. The army reservists who were called up to serve in Kosovo in 1999 are into the fifteenth day of their hunger strike. They decided yesterday to introduce radical measures to their protest by locking themselves inside the municipality building. Overnight, four protesters were taken ill and sent home upon receiving medical treatment. Meanwhile, the reservists’ children did not go to school yesterday as a sign of solidarity with their parents.
Minister, veterans meet, no agreement
The ministry claims that all wages have been paid and that some reservists collected the money in 1999 “more than once”.Nonetheless, ex-servicemen, who say that some of them received nothing, while some did get only a part of the sum, do not plan to back down from their demands.
Šutanovac said the reservists "had no right to protest as they had already obtained their wages."
He showed the delegation all documentation related to the alleged payments during the meeting today.
According to Šutanovac, lawyers manipulated the reservists into suing the Serbian Army claiming the documentation kept in the ministry was destroyed.
In his word, not all of reservists collected their wages in full, adding however that some of them managed to double the sum.
“The ministry will look into all these cases,” Šutanovac promised.
The reservist said afterwards that today’s meeting "solved nothing," claiming that even though the documents may exists, "the ministry cannot prove that all reservists received what was their due."
“Tomorrow, when our lawyers meet with the representatives of the Defense Ministry, we will have the complete picture."
"If it is possible that lawyers and judges did not know the law, and if it turns out that the Army has been right all this time, we will end our protest,” said Dejan Milošević, one of the protest organizers.
The army reservists who were called up to serve in Kosovo in 1999 are into the fifteenth day of their hunger strike.
They decided yesterday to introduce radical measures to their protest by locking themselves inside the municipality building.
Overnight, four protesters were taken ill and sent home upon receiving medical treatment.
Meanwhile, the reservists’ children did not go to school yesterday as a sign of solidarity with their parents.
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