UNMIK releases medical consignment

Kosovo Serb official Radmila Trajković says that medicine detained at the administrative line by UNMIK was let through today.

Izvor: Beta

Thursday, 04.09.2008.

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Kosovo Serb official Radmila Trajkovic says that medicine detained at the administrative line by UNMIK was let through today. The medical consignment is intended for hospitals and pharmacies in central Kosovo. UNMIK releases medical consignment It was held for over 20 days at the border by UNMIK, but allowed to pass this morning at 10:30 CET. Trajkovic, director of the Gracanica Health Center, said that the medicine should reach health institutions in Kosovo Polje and the surrounding enclaves later in the day, when it would be checked to see if was still usable, given that it had been “held in inadequate conditions” for over 20 days. According to her, the medicine was allowed to pass after diplomatic officials from Pristina intervened. Trajkovic said that it had been confirmed that there were no discrepancies in the end with the accompanying documentation, just as the Serbian side had claimed from the outset. Medicine sent from Serbia to central Kosovo has already been stopped and held at the administrative line in southern Kosovska Mitrovica several times since the province’s unilateral independence declaration in February. Serbia has also sent an appeal to the World Health Organization, whose support it has received. UNMIK stated that the medicine could not cross the border because it did not have the necessary licenses from the Kosovo Agency for the Circulation of Medicine. UNMIK Customs spokesman Adriatik Stavileci told Beta last week that the latest consignment of medicine had been held up because “there is a discrepancy between what is written in the documentation and what is contained within the consignment.” Rada Trajkovic (FoNet, archive)

UNMIK releases medical consignment

It was held for over 20 days at the border by UNMIK, but allowed to pass this morning at 10:30 CET.

Trajković, director of the Gračanica Health Center, said that the medicine should reach health institutions in Kosovo Polje and the surrounding enclaves later in the day, when it would be checked to see if was still usable, given that it had been “held in inadequate conditions” for over 20 days.

According to her, the medicine was allowed to pass after diplomatic officials from Priština intervened.

Trajković said that it had been confirmed that there were no discrepancies in the end with the accompanying documentation, just as the Serbian side had claimed from the outset.

Medicine sent from Serbia to central Kosovo has already been stopped and held at the administrative line in southern Kosovska Mitrovica several times since the province’s unilateral independence declaration in February.

Serbia has also sent an appeal to the World Health Organization, whose support it has received.

UNMIK stated that the medicine could not cross the border because it did not have the necessary licenses from the Kosovo Agency for the Circulation of Medicine.

UNMIK Customs spokesman Adriatik Stavileci told Beta last week that the latest consignment of medicine had been held up because “there is a discrepancy between what is written in the documentation and what is contained within the consignment.”

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