KOSOVO POWER COMPANY ANNOUNCES FRESH SERB BLACKOUTS
BBC Monitoring International Reports - January 22, 2005

Text of report by Serbian independent news agency FoNet

Kosovska Mitrovica, 22 January: According to announcements by the Kosovo Energy Corporation (KEK), another 200 Serb households in enclaves throughout Kosovo will be disconnected from the electricity network this weekend.

FoNet has learned from the KEK that the policy of cutting off irregular payees is backed by the international administration and that customers will be able to resolve these humanitarian problems exclusively by signing a contract promising to pay their bills regularly and pay retroactively for bills owed from previous years.

KEK is not happy with UNMIK (UN Interim Administration Mission in Kosovo) chief Soeren Jessen-Petersen's statement yesterday in which ambiguously said that workers of the Elektrokosmet power company would be reading electricity metres and receiving payments for bills for used electricity, because, as KEK says, this is a parallel institution or corporation.

Source: FoNet news agency, Belgrade, in Serbian 1300 gmt 22 Jan 05

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