Department of Non-Resident Affairs
Working report for period January 2002 August 2003
Short background
Department of Non-Resident Affairs is established with the decision of SRSG on the 19 October 2000; Regulation 2000/58.
Important tasks of this department according the Regulation 1.2 is: ”to deal with the education activities, social, culture, humanitarian, sport, youth, media and assisting in the information to the investing businessmens, civil and voting registration, travel documents for kosovar non-residents, which temporary are living outside their country”. This department is connected with the issues of kosovar diaspora.
Establishment of Kosova Government respectively the Ministry of Culture, Youth, Sport and Non-Resident Affairs, this department continued the same work being active and successfully for our immigrant (compatriots), but from the Legal Office in the Permanent Secretary office is taken the name from the ministry title.
We are considering that the name of this department should be in the title of the Ministry.
Program policies realized during the 2002
DONRA her activities for the 2002 have realized these program policies in these fields:
Mendia line
Education and culture
Kosova Investment Conference (KICO)
Contacts with communities
Culture education program
Is organized a movement culture camp in Kosova with 35 pupils from Germany and Switzerland, which are following the Albanian supplementary education.
Media and information program
Are published 12 monthly magazine in 10 thousand copies “Ura”, “Most” and “Kopry”, Albanian, Serbian and Turkish these publication are dedicated for the diaspora and for displaced personas from Kosova, these magazine we send in individual, clubs, organization addresses.
KICO program
Motivation for supporting the investment by non-residents in Kosova, are organized three KICO with Albanian and non-Albanian businessmen’s in diaspora.
First KICO was held in the Olten-Switzerland, second in Frankfurt-Germany and the third in New York.
Contacts with communities
During this year are done a lot of meetings with our compatriots in different countries where we discuss about their problems especially regarding the civil and voting registration and to find the way how to vote from diaspora to the Kosova election in, reorganization of diaspora etc.
Also we had contacts with displaced Serbs in Serbia and Montenegro and with displaced roma.
For 2003 are proposed these program policies
1. Education-culture-social affairs-investigations
2. Media information program
3. KICO program
4. Visits to the displaced minorities from Kosova
Education-culture-social affairs-investigations are included:
- Culture camp with students from Germany / 20.000- Culture camp with students / 20.000
- Culture camp with students from Austria / 20.000
- Culture camp with students from France / 20.000
- Youth Nights with youth from diaspora / 15.000
- -Seminar for diaspora teaches / 20.000
- School books and books for libraries / 12.000
- Scientist investigation for diaspora / 30.000
- Meeting with diaspora creators / 20.000
- First Albanian Diaspora meeting / 50.000
- Exhibition of our culture in Diaspora / 30.000
- Culture-artistic society from Kosova in diaspora / 30.000
- Kosova theater in diaspora / 20.000
- Civil Registration / 250.000
- Social problem of kosovar prisoners abroad / 15.000
- Visits and meetings in diaspora / 45.000
- 617.000
Media information program
Magazine publication “Ura”, “Most” “Kopry” and distribution / 300.000Internet website / 12.000
Monthly brochures for economy and business / 50.000
Broadcast in TV for youth and children in diaspora / 60.000
Fist media diaspora meeting / 20.000
450.000
KICO program in Kosova
- Fourth KICO in Olten
- Fifth KICO in Frankfurt
- Sixth KICO in New York
- Seventh KICO Istanbul
- ……………………………………………………………………250.000
Program for opening of center culture-education-informative-economic (CCEIE)
- Opening the center for CCEIE in Switzerland / 100.000- Opening the center for CCEIE in Germany / 100.000
- Opening the center for CCEIE in America / 150.000
- / 350.000
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Visits to the displaced minorities from Kosova
- Visit in Serbia / 10.000- Visit in Montenegro / 10.000
- / 20.000
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Total pllanification for 2003…………………………………………………..1.687.000
For 2003 are approved these program policies:
1. Program of culture, education and public affairs
Culture camp for pupils from Switzerland / 20.000Culture camp for pupils from Austria / 20.000
Books for the existing libraries in different countries / 11.000
Seminar for diaspora teachers / 3.000
Youth nights for the diaspora youth / 3.000
Kosovar culture days from diaspora in Berlin / 10.000
Kosovar Prisoners in abroad reconsilisation / 2.000
Meetings with compatriots in the new year eve / 1.000
70.000
2. Media information program
- Publication of magazines “Ura”, “Most” and “Kopry” ………….120.000
3. KICO program
- Conference in Olten
- Conference in Frankfurt
- Conference in New York
- Conference in Istanbul
- ……………………………………………………………………..250.000
4. Program with displaced minorities outside Kosova
-Visiting camps displaced in Serbia………………………………………………6.000
-Visiting camps displaced in Monte Negro………………………………………4.000
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Total Amount:……………………………………………………………………..450.000€
Requested amount 1.687.000 for the activities during the 2003 are allocated 450.000 is just the 25% of plan.
Meriman Braha, Director
Department of Non-Resident Affairs