VRS Bosnian Serb Army

VRS Bosnian Serb Army

Mr. Mladen Pandurevic Serb Civic Council

Serb Orthodox Church clergy continue to be prohibited from entering the country or holding services for the Serb population.

Few qualified Kosovo Serb candidates are presented.

C. The return of Croatian Serb refugees

Mr. Mladen Pandurevic, Serb Civic Council (SCC)

Meeting with Serb returnees in surrounding villages

Thus, in Karlovac municipality six Croatian Serb judges were dismissed during the year, leaving only one Serb judge in that community.

HVO Croatian Defence Council VRS Bosnian Serb Army

Mr. Boro Martinovic Head of Krajina Serb association

Mr. Milenko Vucetic President, Serb Displaced Persons apos Association

Numerous statements have been made by Serb and Bosnian Serb political, and even religious, leaders saying that Karadzic and Mladic must be brought to The Hague.

Kosovo Serb municipalities declined to provide information to non Serb employees in the Cultural Heritage Division (two Kosovo Serbs are now employed see para. 67 above).

One non Serb, non Albanian deputy minister has been appointed.

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Kosovo Serb members of the drafting group on the law on cultural heritage withdrew following the March 2004 violence no comments have been received from the Kosovo Serb parties.

The long standing issue of the inability of persons belonging to the Serb minority to exercise freely their religion and register religious communities of the Serb Orthodox Church remains unresolved.

91. Several cases of harassment of Serb Displaced Persons and Serb residents of the region of Osijek and the pilot return villages of Anunovac and Ernestinovo have also been reported.

A return of Kosovo to Serb sovereignty is neither desirable nor realistic.

However, Serb resistance to the European Commission's principles produced an ongoing stalemate.

Mr. Spiro Lazinica Serb Displaced Persons apos Association and Baranja Democratic Forum

Meanwhile, in nearby Kistanje, also once a Serb majority town, there are now virtually no Serb residents but several hundred Croats who are refugees from Kosovo in the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia.

Borders between the Bosniak territory and the Bosnian Serb territory have calmed down.

Kosovo Serb participation this week in the decentralization working groups is also encouraging.

Borders between the Bosniak territory and the Bosnian Serb territory have calmed down.

Inter entity returns, especially to the Bosnian Serb entity, continue to pose protection challenges.

Remaining Serb displaced persons, meanwhile, reportedly have had difficulties in obtaining Croatian identity documents.

Mr. Branka Panic Head of Association of Captured and Missing Serb Civilians and Soldiers

49. The sale of Croatian Serb property to ethnic Croat refugees has become widespread.

A young Serb nurse who had returned to Kusonje told the Special Rapporteur that she was unable to get employment at a local hospital because she was a Serb she maintained that there were vacant posts.

Many Croatian Serb refugees were thus unable to reclaim their properties in the allotted time.

We also need to see progress with regard to Kosovo Serb participation in the political process.

But the Serb and Kosovar leaders too must make greater efforts to assume their full responsibilities.

The draft has been sent to the leaders of the Kosovo Serb political parties for comment.

95. The human rights situation of the Croatian Serb population remains a serious cause for concern.

At the same time, within the Region itself Serb extremists keep tensions at a high level.

The application of the amnesty law, however, continues to cause widespread concern among the Serb population.

The husband was a Serb and the wife Hungarian both were Croatian citizens and domiciled residents.

We welcome the expressed readiness of the Serb and Kosovar authorities to meet at the highest levels.

The Serb minority is part of Kosovo society, and as such, it has both rights and obligations.

The negative effect of these actions on the confidence of the Serb population in particular was predictable.

The first regards the appointment of judges, as the ethnic representation was unsatisfactory to the Serb side.

Regrettably, the post of Deputy Minister for Local Government Administration, reserved for a Kosovo Serb, still remains vacant.

Secondly, Switzerland welcomes the first steps that have been made towards a dialogue between Serb and Kosovar leaders.