Kosovo police block medical supplies to Serb enclave

Kosovo police, KPS, said a vehicle transporting medical supplies has been stopped and confiscated. The incident happened yesterday near Vucitrn in Kosovo. Kosovo police block medical supplies to Serb enclave A spokesman for the KPS told reporters in Pristina that the vehicle, carrying medicines to the Serb enclave of Gracanica, "did not have the necessary paperwork". The spokesman also said that the vehicle was "handed over to the customs service, and that they should be asked when the Gracanica pharmacies will get their supplies". The supplies were sent from central Serbia to the hospital and pharmacies in the enclave. Stojan Sekulic, the hospital director there, said that medicines worth RSD 3mn were previously stranded in southern Kosovska Mitrovica for two says. UNMIK deputy commissioner Larry Wilson promised that the supplies would be released, however, he later retracted, to say that the matter was outside of his jurisdiction, and referred the doctors to UNMIK customs, Sekulic explained.

Kosovo police block medical supplies to Serb enclave

A spokesman for the KPS told reporters in Priština that the vehicle, carrying medicines to the Serb enclave of Gračanica, "did not have the necessary paperwork".

The spokesman also said that the vehicle was "handed over to the customs service, and that they should be asked when the Gračanica pharmacies will get their supplies".

The supplies were sent from central Serbia to the hospital and pharmacies in the enclave. Stojan Sekulić, the hospital director there, said that medicines worth RSD 3mn were previously stranded in southern Kosovska Mitrovica for two says.

UNMIK deputy commissioner Larry Wilson promised that the supplies would be released, however, he later retracted, to say that the matter was outside of his jurisdiction, and referred the doctors to UNMIK customs, Sekulić explained.