New Kosova Report

Russian aid: Serbs get expired food

Wednesday, 23 April 2008

Kosovo public broadcaster RTK reported yesterday that the food aid sent to the Kosovo Serbs by Russia is potentially expired. The food, which is mostly cans of fish and other meets show origin markings of the Russian emergency food supplies while the printed production dates show March 2005 with an expiration time of two years.

The expiration period however has been extended to five years with pencil markings.

Nevertheless, the Kosovo Customs, which is still controlled by UNMIK, has allowed the food to enter Kosovo with the destination ethnically Serb communities in Gracanica and Strpce. The aid became a political issue in Kosovo when Russia’s top leaders announced initially that they would try to bypass Kosovo authorities in bringing the food in Kosovo.

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Party time said:

	And what if they hide parts of or entire armament in their "aid", didi we pass all the merchandise through a scanner?
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Tringa said:

Russia should get its big nose out of Europe in which it tried and still tries so hard to be a part off. Russia should adress its own suffering population which it cannot provide food for as the gap between the extremley rich and the extremely poor is widening, with no "middle-class" in existence.

Maybe the 2-year expired food should go to the poor population of Russians, instead of to Kosovo which can at least provide proper food for their people.

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E Verteta said:

	This is pure propaganda from RTK. Putin and Russia are evil but they are no fools. This just shows how poor RTK and Thacis gov. are when it comes to using Propaganda. "Expired food" hahaha. This is what happenes when we pick PM Thaci a man with no schooling to run our new country. verteta.blogspot.com
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