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28.07.2005 Kosovo Government and UNMIK do not have sufficient funds for the
successful return of internally-displaced people. Killian Kleinschmidt,
the head of the Office for Returns and Communities, said that €22 million
are needed to implement current projects for IDP returns. Kleinschmidt
called on donors to support UNMIK and the Kosovo Government in acquiring
the necessary resources.

28.07.2005 MANS expressed their support to the proposal of new the Law on Preventing Conflict of Interests that, according to them, represents significant improvement to the existing legislation. MANS believes that its implementation will finally bring real results in eliminating conflict of interest and the ongoing campaign against the corruption.

28.07.2005 Web page mreza-lokalni-razvoj.net (Local Development Net) has been developed through ODRAZ's LDN project and designed as platform for gathering and distribution of information on local development between LDN members and the interested entities.

28.07.2005 GONG protested the decision by the City Council of Zagreb to change the practice for media access to the sessions of the Council and City Assembly and demands from the Council to open its work to the public again.

28.07.2005 The Humanitarian Law Centre protests the unacceptable conduct by the Becej, Vojvodina, Police Department and its treatment of Baskim Krueziu, who was harrassed because of his ethnic and religious background.

27.07.2005 Today the Secretariat of the Political Forum of Kosovo will propose members for the working groups that will prepare for talks on Kosovo’s final status.

27.07.2005 The Electronic Network Centre and the E-Macedonia Foundation presented today the new internet website, Nasa Strana (Our Site), which is a part of the programme implemented under the same name. Zlatko Nikolovski from the Electronic Network Centre and Slave Mladenovski from the E-Macedonia Foundation talked to the media at the presentation.

27.07.2005 The inclusion of the Old Bridge in Mostar and the Old City on UNESCO’s list of world cultural heritage is a huge achievement for Bosnia and Herzegovina and introduces a brighter future for B&H cultural heritage, concluded the round-table discussion “Mostar – Global Cultural Heritage: Perspectives for the Coming 10 Years”.

27.07.2005 Two thirds of Skadar Lake belong to Montenegro, and one third to Albania. The Montenegro side has been declared a National Park in 1983, but in spite of that, Montenegro and Albanian scientists plan to lower the level of the Skadar Lake and expand the arrable land by 2008.

27.07.2005 From May 20 to June 15, 2005, the Union of High School Students of Serbia and the Centre for Youth Motivation and Activism conducted a survey on the social and economic status of high school students in Belgrade.