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Tanjug News Agency
September 5, 2009
Over 200,000 Kosovo Serb IDPs
-The registration did not apply to persons living in private accommodation or
to Serbs and other non-Albanians who were expelled from their homes but remain
in Kosovo.
Of the total number of registered, about 10 percent, or 100 families with over
400 members, are members of Gorani, Roma and Muslim minorities....
BELGRADE: Central Serbia is still home to over 200,000 internally displaced
persons (IDP), driven out of their homes in Kosovo.
The Ministry for Kosovo yesterday concluded the registration of the IDPs.
Assistant to the Minister for Kosovo Bojan Anđelkovic told B92 that very few of
those who were forced to leave had returned to the province.
He added that the number of IDPs is the same as the one obtained in 2001, and
that it is also the one used by UNHCR.
Anđelkovic stressed that while this UN agency claims that some 16,000 Kosovo
Serbs and other non-Albanians had returned and stayed in their homes in the
past ten years, "our numbers are significantly smaller, only five, or less than
five thousands people".
A total of 1,212 IDP families, or 3,200 persons, have applied for return to
Kosovo and Metohija, Anđelkovic told a news conference in Belgrade on Friday.
Registration of applicants was carried out from March to mid-August this year
and was limited to the internally displaced persons accommodated in collective
centers and those who had already expressed their desire to return, he
explained.
The registration did not apply to persons living in private accommodation or to
Serbs and other non-Albanians who were expelled from their homes but remain in
Kosovo.
Of the total number of registered, about 10 percent, or 100 families with over
400 members, are members of Gorani, Roma and Muslim minorities, he said.
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