Archbishop Paul requests second reading of Rudd Government
11. March 2008 - 10:11ANTIOCHIAN ARCHBISHOP PAUL OF AUSTRALIA AND NEW ZEALAND REQUESTS SECOND READING OF RUDD GOVERNMENT
Sydney,
10 March 2008, His Eminence Metropolitan
Archbishop Paul of the Antiochian Orthodox Archdiocese of Australia and New Zealand in his letters to Australian
Prime Minister Kevin Rudd and Minister for Foreign Affairs Stephen Smith,
requested a second reading of their decision of 19
February 2008 to recognise Kosovo's unilateral
secession from the Republic of Serbia. "The determination of
final status can neither be seen as a reward for systematic violence and
organized terror", stated the Archbishop, "nor undertaken without the
continued, full involvement of the Serbian government and the United Nations."
For these reasons, the head of the Antiochian Orthodox Church in Australia urged Prime Minister Rudd
and his government to revoke their decision to recognise Kosovo independence, while using Australia's good standing as an
international citizen to respect the rule of law by fostering negotiation and
constructive dialogue among the interested parties.
Source: http://www.antiochian.org.au
Kosovo: A Point of Transit for Drug Traffic
6. March 2008 - 13:03WASHINGTON - Kosovo represents one of the transit countries over which mainly heroin produced in Turkey and Afghanistan is being transferred to Western European countries. But it is also a „promising market for drugs'', according to the 2008 U.S. State Department's International Narcotis Control Stategy Report.
New Masters in Kosovo
3. March 2008 - 10:39An International Steering Group composed of the representatives of 15 states has been formed in Vienna. It has orderd the implementation of Martii Ahtisaari’s plan in the Southern Serbian Province
Беч Vienna –An International Steering Group for Kosovo (ISG) was formed yesterday. It is composed of 15 states. It was decided at their first meeting that Pieter Feith be the International Civil Representative in Kosovo (ICR). Veit said during a press conference at the Austrian Ministry of Foreign Affairs that the ISG was “the significant coalition of states, friends of the independent state of Kosovo’’ and that it was made up of five members of the Contact group – the U.S.A, Great Britain, France, Germany and Italy, as well as Austria, the Czech Republic, Sweden, Turkey, Finland, Belgium, Denmark, Hungary, Slovenia, and Switzerland.
State Support for the Clergy and the Monastic Communities in Kosovo and Metohija
3. March 2008 - 10:37
The Serbian Government’s support for the clergy and monastic communities in Kosovo and Metohija represented the central issue during talks held at the Gracanica Monastery between the Minister for Religion Radomir Naumov and the Bishop of Raska and Prizren, Artemije.
