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UNMIK Headlines 22 May
• Thaçi and Dacic close to agreement on implementation plan (Koha)
• Members of European Parliament want implementation of agreement (Koha)
• Jahjaga and Schlumberger discuss elections in north (Koha)
• Conclusion of election reforms requires international pressure (Koha)
• Trepça in the north under Kosovo’s jurisdiction only on paper (Koha)
• Northern Serbs: Kosovo’s wealth is Serbia’s property! (Zëri)
• Serbian police arrest two men for murder of 65 Albanians in Lubenic (Koha)
UNMIK Headlines 21 May
• Westerwelle wants concrete actions in implementation of agreement (dailies)
• Implementation plan of the Brussels agreement (Tribuna)
• Hoxhaj: We are not only against Greater Serbia projects, but against Greater Albania, too (Koha)
• Mustafa: Implementation of the Agreement, as soon as possible (dailies)
• Government confused, U.S. rejects Serbia’s jurisdiction over Trepça (Koha)
• Kurti: Country’s future will suffer from dialogue and privatization (Koha)
• Ozan: Pristina-Belgrade agreement to be implemented ASAP (Koha)
• Serbs burn EU and Kosovo flag (Koha)
UNMIK Headlines 20 May
• Germany conditions Serbia: Implementation of agreement first (Epoka)
• Blomeyer believes implementation of Agreement will start tomorrow (Koha)
• Pristina denies new compromises for the Agreement (Koha)
• Fuele: Serbia to implement agreement with Kosovo (dailies)
• Haradinaj confident in implementation of agreement (Tribuna)
• Serbia wants return of Serbs to Kosovo (Tribuna)
• Kadri Veseli may become prime minister (Zëri)
UNMIK Headlines 18 May
• Serbian Government allows Americans to invest in “Trepca” (Koha Ditore)
• Kuci: Power of PMs required for implementation plan (Tribuna)
• Closer positions but no agreement in Brussels (Koha Ditore)
• Mustafa: Reciprocal rights for Presevo Valley (dailies)
• Kosovo is not invited at Ohrid Summit (dailies)
• Kosovo organizes “Morning Prayers” (Epoka e Re)
UNMIK Headlines 17 May
• Ashton: Implementation plan to be discussed (Zëri)
• Westerwelle to visit Belgrade and Pristina (Tribuna)
• Margallo: Spain will recognize Kosovo after Serbia (Tribuna)
• AAK does not like a coalition between PDK and LDK (Epoka e Re)
• Bosniaks request three municipalities (Zëri)
• Lambsdorff: Kosovo to fight corruption and organized crime (Koha)
• Minister Rexhepi and defendant Limaj side by side against crime (Koha)
• LISBA threatens protests if history is not written as Turkey wishes (dailies)
UNMIK Headlines 16 May
• Illegals in preparatory group for association of Serb municipalities (Koha)
• Thaçi: Five EU countries will recognize Kosovo (dailies)
• Zbogar requests creation of conditions for sustainable return (dailies)
• AKR to call on Parliament to dismiss KPA Board (dailies)
• Rexha does not resign, requests dismissal (Tribuna)
• Date of local elections after Thaçi – Dacic meeting (Koha Ditore)
• KFOR does not recognize Serb Civilian Defense as partner (dailies)
• Veseli: Malisheva is sacred to me, Thaçi, Limaj and PDK (Koha Ditore)
• Fine with PDK too (Zëri)
UNMIK Headlines 15 May
• Ashton wants immediate implementation of agreement (Tribuna)
• Thaçi: Agreement on timelines of implementation plan on May 21 (Koha)
• Serbia and Kosovo to exchange liaison officers in June (Epoka e Re)
• Mustafa: LDK will win, perhaps a coalition even with PDK (Koha)
• Apology by former Serbian officials is not enough (Tribuna)
• KDI calls on Parliament to intervene in KPA (Koha)
• Buzhala advises Pacolli to abandon Thaçi (Koha)
• Selimi: Five EU countries have started to recognize the reality (Epoka e Re)
• Vetëvendosje calls on President Jahjaga to announce elections (dailies)
• Jahjaga attends anniversary of administrative office in the north (dailies)
• Gashi: Thaçi is terrified by free elections (Tribuna)
UNMIK Headlines 14 May
• Krasniqi: The north listens to Belgrade, not Pristina (Koha Ditore)
• President Jahjaga to announce election date before August 15 (Tribuna)
• Marty Task Force admits it has no court (Tribuna)
• Return of displaced in the north, competency of the ministry (Epoka e Re)
• Americans abandon KPA (Zëri)
• Selimi: No to Islamic Union in politics (Koha Ditore)
• Ambassador “Sultan” to face justice (Bota Sot)
• Four years in prison for Elvis Kelmendi (Koha Ditore)
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Political marketing with Trepça (Kosova Sot)
The front-page editorial of this daily says the agreement between “New Generation Power” and the Government of Serbia produced more political issues than economic. This is not all, but every agreement that concerns mineral resources can only remain on paper, if it doesn’t have the license of Kosovo authorities. All activities and exploitations at the mines, including [...]
Read More →Above the agreement (Tribuna)
Aida Dërguti considers that the entire situation including the deadline for implementation of the agreement between Kosovo and Serbia have been planned in detail to leave the impression that there is some progress that will be reached by June, when Serbia is to receive the date for the negotiation on EU membership. During this period, [...]
Read More →Agreement on the agreement (Kosova Sot)
The front page editorial of this daily says that the historical character of the EU mediation would fade away if the agreement is not implemented in the field. Belgrade should once and for all separate from illegal structures of the government in northern Kosovo. Berlin’s insistence on this point is important for the stability of [...]
Read More →German pressure for peace (Zëri)
Milaim Shefkiu says in Zëri that the German Foreign Minister came to Serbia and Kosovo to convey the message to the parties that without respecting the agreement reached on 19 April in Brussels, there is no EU integration. This was not a visit to encourage the parties, he says, but to convey the message that [...]
Read More →Elections in September (Kosova Sot)
The front page editorial of this daily says that the President of Kosovo, Atifete Jahjaga, has the mandate and she should proclaim the date of local elections within the month. Clarifying the date that would have been also valid for the municipalities in the north, the President would have removed the fogginess that is being [...]
Read More →EU is not in the mood for speedy integration of Balkans countries in EU (Koha Ditore)
Koha Ditore’s Brussels based correspondent says that the EU countries do not have the appetite for further enlargement of the Union, after Croatia’s membership. If it was acted according to the current mood of the rich member states, EU would perhaps rather expel some of the Balkans countries from membership than accept new members from this [...]
Read More →Spahiu: President don’t wait, announce the date for local elections (Zëri)
Mitrovica-based political analyst Nexhmedin Spahiu argues in an opinion piece that the key points of the Kosovo – Serbia agreement clearly show that Belgrade has imposed the topics, while Pristina has been on the defensive. “The fact that Kosovar leadership has not suggested topics in dialogue with Serbia, puts it in an inferior position. If [...]
Read More →Three resignations (Kosova Sot)
The paper’s front-page editorial notes that “the post of KPA board chairman seems to be cursed after former chairman Dino Asanaj committed suicide. Without adjusting well to his new job, Blerim Rexha was forced to resign as board chairman. The Vienna doctor, the name used in reference to the resigned chairman, did not manage to [...]
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Government should not accept association of municipalities before local elections (Radio Kosova)
The Kosovo Government should not accept the creation of the association of municipalities with a Serb majority before holding local elections and the creation of legitimate institutions in the municipalities in the north of Kosovo, said one of the drafters of the Kosovo Constitution, professor Arsim Bajrami. According to him, the implementation of the agreement [...]
Read More →Thaçi – Dacic meeting in Brussels continues, parties optimistic about results (Radio Kosova)
Kosovo Prime Minister Hashim Thaçi and Serbian Prime Minister Ivica Dacic are meeting in Brussels under the facilitation of the EU High Representative for Foreign Policy and Security, Catherine Ashton, to bring together the stances on the implementation plan of the agreement signed on 19 April. Yesterday’s meeting did not render any results, although Prime [...]
Read More →Kuçi: Serbia to reflect on implementation of agreement (epokaere.com)
Kosovo’s Deputy Prime Minister Hajredin Kuçi told Epoka e Re that Pristina has expressed readiness to reach the implementation plan for the agreement and that it expects Belgrade to do the same. Kuçi said the meeting between Kosovo and Serbia prime ministers and Baroness Ashton will continue today focusing on the implementation plan for the [...]
Read More →Trepça contract put friendship with Americans to the test (telegrafi.com)
Economic analysts and experts have different assessments about the agreement that the Government of Serbia signed with the American consortium “New Generation Power” to extract minerals from the Trepça mining complex and the northern part of Kosovo. Muhamet Mustafa, member of the Kosovo Parliament, said by signing the agreement Serbia is trying to leave the [...]
Read More →Serbian police arrest two men for murder of 65 Albanians in Lubenic (Koha)
The Serbian War Crimes Prosecution reported yesterday that Serbian Police arrested an active member of Serbian gendarmerie and another person as suspects for war crimes against Albanian civilians in the village of Lubenic in April-May 1999. The two suspects, along with another three suspects, are accused of committing war crimes against 65 Albanian civilians and [...]
Read More →Northern Serbs: Kosovo’s wealth is Serbia’s property! (Zëri)
Northern Kosovo Serbs have reacted against statements by Kosovo institutions rejecting the agreement signed between the Government of Serbia and New Generation Power for an investment feasibility study in the Trepça mining complex. Serbia’s former minister for Kosovo, Goran Bogdanovic, said the socially-owned and public property in Kosovo is the property of Serbia. Northern Kosovo [...]
Read More →Trepça in the north under Kosovo’s jurisdiction only on paper (Koha)
The paper reports on page seven that assets of the Trepça mining complex located in the northern part of Kosovo are managed by people that don’t answer to the Kosovo Privatization Agency. In fact they consider the Government of Serbia as owner of Trepça assets. This part of the mining complex is currently managed by [...]
Read More →Conclusion of election reforms requires international pressure (Koha)
Election reforms, launched two years ago, cannot be concluded even if the process is sent back to the Parliament of Kosovo, because political leaders are not showing readiness and this requires pressure from the international factor. This was the conclusion of a debate on election reforms organized by Pristina-based think tank Forum 2015. Kosovo Parliament [...]
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Bačević: No one will change the contract on Trepca (Press)
Despite the press release of U.S. Embassy in Pristina, which reveals that the State Department has advised U.S. investors to address the Kosovo government because they recognise its independence, Minister of Spatial Planning and Mining Milan Bačević said that the Kosovo government cannot change the signed agreement. According to him, the signing of a cooperation [...]
Read More →Drecun: Thaci trying politically to deceive Serbia (NoviMagazin)
President of the Parliamentary Committee for Kosovo and Metohija Milovan Drecun said today that Kosovo Prime Minister Hashim Thaci wants Belgrade to have more political concessions, because Serbia is keen to get a date to start accession negotiations with the EU. Drecun told reporters in the Parliament that Thaci is trying to deceive Serbia politically [...]
Read More →Simic: Time for political decisions (RTS)
Belgrade and Pristina are not expected to apply the agreement by 27 June, said Professor of Faculty of Political Sciences in Belgrade Predrag Simic. The talks in Brussels are the most complicated so far, said Simic, and stressed that it is the time for political decisions, not experts. “The Brussels agreement is a set of principles [...]
Read More →Agreement in Brussels – today already (DW)
European Union believes in the Serbian and Kosovo prime ministers’ dedication in implementing what was agreed in April. Meeting over the implementation of the Brussels agreement continues today. Even though the Office of the EU High Commissioner Catherine Ashton carried that she has a busy schedule on Wednesday, as she participates at the Summit of the [...]
Read More →Dacic: Pristina should have responsibilities (Novi Magazin)
Prime Ministers of Serbia and Kosovo, Ivica Dacic and Hashim Thaci continue talks today about the plan for the implementation of the agreement initialed on 19 April. The plan, which should be signed as soon as possible, has set deadlines and tasks to be carried out for the implementation, said Prime Minister Dacic. “The implementation [...]
Read More →Trajkovic: Issue of Kosovo’s division ends with Brussels’ agreement (KIM Radio)
“The issue of Kosovo’s division ends with the Brussels agreement. Serbs from the north see this agreement as strengthening Kosovo’s independence, while the international community’s goal is to create a peaceful coexistence between Kosovo and the rest of Serbia,” said Rada Trajkovic. A MP from the ranks of the United Serbian List in the Kosovo [...]
Read More →Vulin to remain Office for Kosovo director (B92)
BELGRADE — Aleksandar Vulin will continue to run the government’s Office for Kosovo at northern Kosovo Serbs’ request, the Office for Kosovo has confirmed. Vulin resigned as Office for Kosovo director a month ago, after an agreement on normalization of relations between Belgrade and Priština was initialed because he did not agree with the document. [...]
Read More →Talks in Brussels paused until afternoon (Tanjug)
BRUSSELS – The talks between Belgrade and Pristina facilitated by EU High Representative Cathrine Ashton were paused at around 1 p.m. CET and are expected to continue at around 5 p.m. CET, sources close to the Serbian delegation have told Tanjug. The trilateral meeting was interrupted on Tuesday and the dialogue resumed at around 11:30 [...]
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Serbia, Kosovo Discuss Implementation Of Normalization Deal (RFE/RL)
The prime ministers of Serbia and Kosovo are holding a new round of talks in Brussels on implementing a deal to normalize relations. A first session on May 21 ended without agreement. The talks on May 22 are being attended by Serbia’s Ivica Dacic and Kosovo’s Hashim Thaci under the mediation of the European Union [...]
Read More →Peace stone from Hiroshima presented to Kosovo (Global Post/ Kyodo)
A Hiroshima-based civic group on Monday presented the former Yugoslav autonomous region of Kosovo with a stone from the 1945 atomic bombing of the Japanese city, engraved with an image of a Buddhist goddess of mercy. A ceremony to mark the donation of the “Stone for Peace,” one of the paving stones for Hiroshima streetcar [...]
Read More →Germany to Back EU Progress for Serbia, Kosovo If Accord Enacted (Bloomberg)
Germany will support Serbia’s bid to secure a start date to begin European Union membership talks and back pre-accession talks for Kosovo if the nations show progress in implementing their April 19 political agreement. It’s important “that an implementation agreement is found and that the first achievable implementation steps are made,” German Foreign Minister Guido [...]
Read More →Kosovo and Serbia Optimistic on EU Deal Progress (BIRN)
Despite two failed meetings about the implementation of the EU-brokered deal between Kosovo and Serbia, officials hope that prime ministerial talks next week will see progress. Edona Peci BIRN Pristina “I’m optimistic things will move positively and there will be an agreement in the upcoming meeting for the implementation of the agreement of April,” Kosovo [...]
Read More →The deal between Serbia and Kosovo that changed history… or did it? (The Independent)
When Serbia agreed to recognise the Kosovan government last month, the EU hailed it as a landmark moment for two nations. But on the ground, the old enmities remain In a grim suburb outside Pristina, two schools exist in the same building. They are only one floor apart, yet the pupils speak different languages, learn [...]
Read More →Kosovo Local Elections Could Be Delayed Until 2014 (Focus News, BIRN)
Kosovo wants to hold local elections in October, but if conditions are not right in the Serb-run north of Kosovo they could be postponed until spring 2014, sources told BIRN. As the Kosovo president Atifete Jahjaga is due to continue consultations with political parties on the upcoming local elections, BIRN discovered they might be delayed [...]
Read More →Feeling betrayed in north Kosovo (BBC)
“I’d kill him if I could,” shouts the shopkeeper, cheerfully, in the main town of northern Kosovo. He is watching police dogs snuffling about the drab municipal building on the Serbian, northern side of the divided town of Mitrovica, preparing for the visit of Aleksandar Vucic. Serbia’s first deputy prime minister is the most popular [...]
Read More →Aleksandar Vucic: Kosovo Serbs ‘should accept deal’ (BBC News)
One of Serbia’s most senior officials has visited northern Kosovo to try to persuade ethnic Serbs there to accept an EU-brokered agreement. Deputy PM Aleksandar Vucic admitted that the amount of autonomy given to them under the accord was not ideal. Kosovo proclaimed its independence from Serbia in 2008 but Kosovan Serbs have refused to [...]
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