UNMIK/PR/1023
Friday, 15 August 2003

PDSRSG Charles Brayshaw attends funerals in Gorazdevac

PRISTINA - PDSRSG Charles Brayshaw today attended the funerals of the two Kosovo Serbian teenagers who were killed in an ambush two days ago near Gorazdevac.

Mr. Brayshaw conveyed the “condolences to the families on behalf of SRSG Harri Holkeri, who regretted that it was not possible for him to attend the funerals.”

Mr. Brayshaw said that “everyone in Kosovo should mourn this tragedy for their society.”

“The majority population of Kosovo knows in its own hearts that terrible pain has been inflicted on the families of the two boys in Gorazdevac and the Serbian community in Kosovo and we must all work to heal that pain,” Mr. Brayshaw said.