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31.01.2006 The Head of the European Commission Liaison Office in Kosovo Ambassador Giorgio Mamberto said in an exclusive interview with KosovaLive that the European Union is not going to administrate Kosovo.

31.01.2006 Sandra Pernar, Deputy President of GONG association received the Council of Europe Award for its “First Time Voter” Project, yesterday in Strassbourg. “First Time Voter” is a project implemented by GONG for six years in a row, at Croatian secondary schools. Over 100,000 high-school students have participated in the projects.

31.01.2006 Dr. Ibrahim Rugova was the only political leader in former Yugoslavia who embraced nonviolence, says Transnational Foundation director Jan Oberg, who remains convinced that "had his nonviolent policy won the determined support of the international community in the early 1990s, many lives could have been saved and much suffering avoided."

31.01.2006 The Bureau of Public Health of the Herzegovina-Neretva Canton, in cooperation with four elementary schools from Mostar started a campaign to mark 31 January – No Smoking Day. The official slogan of the campaign is “No Smoking – Life at Its Fullest”. The campaign is organized under the Orkdal project, with support by the Nansen Dialogue Centre Mostar.

31.01.2006 Amnesty International, human rights organization, reports that Serbian authority failed to investigate the alleged bad treatment of detainees during the “Sablja 2003” operation that followed the assassination of Prime Minister Zoran Djindjic.

30.01.2006 In his address of the press after the meeting and talks with his counterpart from Sanski Most, Marko Pavic, the Mayor of Prijedor said that these two cities can approach the development funds in B&H and the EU easier if the two municipalities cooperate better.

30.01.2006 The largest party in Kosovo, LDK, has decided that Fatmir Sejdiu who is the current General Secretary of the part and the head of its parliamentary caucus, will replace Ibrahim Rugova as the President of Kosovo. Kosovo news agency QIK, who was close to the late president, reports that there was a complete consensus in the meeting held today by the LDK.

30.01.2006 Jovo Djogo, retired colonel in the Army of the Republic of Srpska and former chief of security of the Hague fugitive Ratko Mladic, was arrested on charges of assisting Mladic’s escape and hiding.

30.01.2006 The Ekolevizja Group will organise its annual meeting on 31 January, and will discuss its role as an active force in the environmental protection and the sustainable development. The meeting will take place at the ONUFRI Room of the Tirana International Hotel.

30.01.2006 On Tuesday, 31 January, 2006, Acting Ombudsperson of Kosovo, Hilmi Jashari, will attend the first open day applicant session at the Ombudsperson Institution field office in the Serbian enclave of Gracanica.

30.01.2006 The Association of Independent Electronic Media (ANEM) estimates that the high compensations for broadcasting licences may lead to elimination of private broadcasters and restricted freedom of expression in Serbia.

27.01.2006 The Albanian Children's Alliance (Tirana Region) and CRCA Children's Club Against Child Labour, under the framework of the Convention on the Rights of the Child and the plan of activities of both NGO's, organised a football match with children and pupils of School 'Dhora Leka' in Tirana.

27.01.2006 The Media Development Center published part of the results of the research “Technical Conditions and Potentials of the Broadcasting Activity in Macedonia”. The research was conducted by the research agency SMMRI (Strategic Marketing and Media Research Institute) and was financed by FOSIM together with OSCE.

27.01.2006 Ever since the first news arrived on the horrible tragedy that fell on Montenegro at the beginning of this week, enterprises, institutions, political parties, individual citizens made unselfish contributions to assist the families of the killed and injured.

27.01.2006 The recording of the firts radio programme in Romani language intended for broadcasting on the B&H Public Radio Service, was completed at the Media Plan Institute in Sarajevo. The Amaro Drom Project (Our Way) was prepared by ten young Roma men and women who completed the three-month training at the Institute.

27.01.2006 Hundreds of thousands Kosovo Albanians and a great number of international representatives have flown Kosovo’s capitol, Prishtina to bid farewell to President, Ibrahim Rugova, who has died at age of 61 on Saturday, January 21 this year after a prolonged lung cancer.

26.01.2006 Two in ten 16-year olds in Serbia tried some type of narcotic, almost all of them have tried alcohol, and three in ten are active smokers, show the results of the survey conducted in Belgrade, Nis and Novi Sad in October 2005. The survey was implemented under the Drug-Abuse Prevention in Serbia project.

26.01.2006 International development and rights activist Walden Bello explains how military interventions for 'humanitarian reasons' can cause further human rights violations, be corrupted by political goals, and set a dangerous precedent for the disregard of national sovereignty.

26.01.2006 The project for Danube River Protection (DRP), i.e. Capacity building for implementation of projects designed to reduce release of organic and toxic substances and cross-border cooperation of the Danube countries was started in 2001, on the initiative of the Global Environment Facility and UNDP, with the aim to improve the quality of the environment in the Danube Basin.

26.01.2006 The Association of Disabled Persons of the B&H Federation warned the Government and the Parliament of the catastrophic situation of this population, and demanded from the institutions to finally start to fulfil their obligations to secure the conditions in which the disabled could start the realization of their rights in accordance with the Law.