61st ANNIVERSARY OF SERBIAN DAILY FROM KOSOVSKA MITROVICA

Belgrade, December 19, 2005 – HRH Crown Prince Alexander II today extended his congratulations to the weekly “Jedinstvo”, the only print media in Serbian in Kosovo and Methoija, on the occasion of its 61st anniversary.

The newspaper, once a main daily published in Pristina the capital of the Serbia and Montenegro’s southern province of Kosovo and Metohija, is now a weekly published in the northern part of Kosovska Mitrovica, a Serb enclave in the province.

“It is my honour to congratulate you personally, to the management, editors, journalists and all the employees of the newspaper “Jedinstvo”, your 61st anniversary,” Crown Prince Alexander II said in a letter to Mr Svetozar Vlahovic, Director of the “Panorama” company, the publisher of “Jedinstvo”.

“Your coverage helped the news from the province became known to a wider audience, despite the grave circumstances you work under,” Crown Prince added, wishing the newspaper a successful future work on protection of human rights, freedom of speech and press and, above all, of the truth.