Kosovo Serb Policy Correction
RE: Kosovo Serbs Announce Break With Belgrade by Arben Qirezi BCR No. 566, 22-Jul-05
Dear Sir,
As a regular reader of IWPR, please let me express my deep dissatisfaction with your report, dated 22 July from Pristina: "Kosovo Serbs Announce Break With Belgrade" by Arben Qirezi.
The article is based on the thesis of a "break-up" of Kosovo Serbs with Belgrade and using Oliver Ivanovic, the head of the Serbian List for Kosovo and Metohija, SLKM, as a source of this information on the "break-up".
The author of the article says, "Ivanovic announced that his group will now take up the eight seats that it holds, but has not occupied, in the Kosovo Assembly, and will formally announce a decision to join the government over the next few days. The announcement marks a sharp break with SLKM policy, which was earlier characterised by a willingness to leave all the big policy decisions to Belgrade."
Yet, two days before the article was officially posted (July 22), Ivanovic and the SLKM adopted exactly the opposite decision from the one your article suggested.
Ivanovic has himself announced that the SLKM agreed "unanimously" not to participate in Kosovo institutions and, rather, to follow the position of Belgrade.
I hope this is either an editorial mistake, a time gap problem or a problem in interpretation. In any case, I hope that these kinds of mistaken reports will figure as exceptions.
Looking forward to read you further
Aleksandar Mitic
Brussels
Editorial Note
When the article in question was first filed, it
was factually correct. However, IWPR accepts that the story subsequently
changed, and the new line was not reflected in the published version. This was
simply an editorial error and not an attempt to mislead. We apologise for the
mistake.
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