Two Kosovo Serb villages celebrate Christmas without electricity
BBC Worldwide Monitoring - January 8, 2005, Saturday

Text of report by Serbia-Montenegrin radio Kontakt Plus on 7 January

Announcer Over 120 households in Lipljan and some 80 in Batus in Kosovo-Metohija are celebrating Orthodox Christmas without electricity. The Lipljan Serbs have spent 14 days without electricity and those in Batus as many as 20 days.

The deputy mayor of the multiethnic municipality of Lipljan, Borivoje Vignjevic, has said that talks between a delegation of Serbs and representatives of the Kosovo Energy Corporation have failed, so that these households will remain without electricity till further notice.

SOURCE: Kontakt Plus, Kosovska Mitrovica, in Serbian 1500 gmt 7 Jan 05

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