Kosovo customs seize medication for Serb pupils
The Kosovo Customs Office seized on Monday, at the administrative border crossing of Merdare, medicines meant for the pupils of the Braca Aksic primary school in Lipljan, central Kosovo.
(KosovoCompromise Staff) Tuesday, May 20, 2008
Deputy school director Slavoljub Miric said the Jugoremedija pharmaceutical company from Zrenjanin, in northern Serbia, had donated the medicine to the children during their visit to the region.
Although the Kosovo Customs Office was presented complete documentation, which proves this is a donation and that no customs should be paid, customs officials seized the medicine packages, claiming that they did not have an entry permission issued by the Kosovo Medicines Agency.
The delivery comprises 1,150 boxes of vitamin C, a large amount of children's syrup, as well as other medicines.
Miric said that the customs officers kept the bus on the border crossing for more than an hour and a half, and that they did not let the children, who were also in the bus, get out of it.
