Kosovo NGO says poverty greater problem than ethnic divisions in Mitrovica

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    BBC Monitoring Selected Reports: Kosovo (Kosovo), December 19, 2009 Europe, 2pp
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    • Abstract:
      Text of report by public Radio-Television Kosovo TV on 17 December [Presenter] The Kosovo Stability Initiative [IKS] published a research paper called "Mitrovica - one city, two realities" which concludes that the most significant problem is not ethnic division but poverty, unemployment, lack of financial perspective and poor public services. [Reporter] The common interests of citizens in both parts [of the town] are easily forgotten when priority is given to higher politics between Belgrade and Pristina over who governs the northern part...