K. Serb families plead for help to stay

Three Kosovo Serb families spent the day on Tuesday in front of the Federation Palace in Belgrade, asking for assistance.

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Wednesday, 10.12.2008.

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Three Kosovo Serb families spent the day on Tuesday in front of the Federation Palace in Belgrade, asking for assistance. The families wish to continue living in Kosovo, but say that life for the Serbs there is impossible, and want the authorities to provide them with better conditions. K. Serb families plead for help to stay No member of the three families of five who protested yesterday is gainfully employed, with their only source of income coming from child benefits. Misko Krstic of Glogovac, near Kosovska Kamenica, says that he had tried to draw attention to his problems for the past ten years, but that after this failed, he decided to take his family to the capital city. "We went to the municipal president, envoy and district president, to no avail. We arrived here, we sent a fax, no one answered. Then, we came here," Krstic spoke in front of the Federation Palace building, that now houses the Ministry for Kosovo. The families say they do not expect overnight solutions for their problems, but they are demanding that the authorities pledge to assist them, so that they can remain in their homes in Kosovo. These Kosovo Serbs say that while "jobs are being handed out without competitions", unemployment remains their biggest problem. As the evening fell, the ministry's representatives took all three families to the Slavija Hotel to spend the night. They also promised that the issues the Kosovo Serbs cited would be "solved in some way", our reporter says. With more than 200,000 fleeing the province and ethnically motivated violence against them after 1999, the remaining Serbs live in the northern part of Kosovo, and in isolation in the scattered enclaves.

K. Serb families plead for help to stay

No member of the three families of five who protested yesterday is gainfully employed, with their only source of income coming from child benefits.

Miško Krstić of Glogovac, near Kosovska Kamenica, says that he had tried to draw attention to his problems for the past ten years, but that after this failed, he decided to take his family to the capital city.

"We went to the municipal president, envoy and district president, to no avail. We arrived here, we sent a fax, no one answered. Then, we came here," Krstić spoke in front of the Federation Palace building, that now houses the Ministry for Kosovo.

The families say they do not expect overnight solutions for their problems, but they are demanding that the authorities pledge to assist them, so that they can remain in their homes in Kosovo.

These Kosovo Serbs say that while "jobs are being handed out without competitions", unemployment remains their biggest problem.

As the evening fell, the ministry's representatives took all three families to the Slavija Hotel to spend the night. They also promised that the issues the Kosovo Serbs cited would be "solved in some way", our reporter says.

With more than 200,000 fleeing the province and ethnically motivated violence against them after 1999, the remaining Serbs live in the northern part of Kosovo, and in isolation in the scattered enclaves.

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