Contact Point for Roma and Sinti Issues Vera Kurtic, one of the ODIHR’s local contacts on Roma issues in Serbia, at a meeting in SARAH CROZIER Skopje in June. In 2006, the ODIHR continued a number of projects in this regard from previous years. For example, the Office lent support to the Roma and Ashkali Documentation Centre in Pristina and its Mitrovica Office. The Centre helps Roma IDPs in camps in Northern Mitrovica and returnees present their interests and requests to the authorities that are responsible for addressing their problems. The Pristina Centre also facilitates communication between the representatives of IDP camps and the UNMIK personnel in charge of the implementation of the Return to Roma Mahalla Project. The ODIHR also supported the organization of several meetings of Roma IDPs from Kosovo and asylum-seekers in South-Eastern Europe and the European Union in order to share information and debate different perspectives on the reconstruction of the Roma Mahalla and prospects for return and integration into Kosovar society. The goal of the meetings was for Roma representatives in Kosovo and Roma from Kosovo who are currently living in EU countries to reach a common position regarding the above-mentioned issues. Participants drafted a common declaration with requests and recom- mendations that was sent to the authorities in Kosovo. The ODIHR also provided support to the Kosovo Roma and Ashkali Forum, a network comprising most of the Roma and Ashkali organizations in Kosovo, to organize a series of meetings to develop a political position and to make a contribution to international talks on the status of Kosovo and to the initiative to elaborate a comprehensive strategy for the integration of the Roma, Ashkali, and Egyptian communities into Kosovar society. Annual Report  81