OSCE Broadcast 10 April
• RAE communities need greater support for integration in society (RTK1)
• Assembly is deliberately postponing Ombudsperson’s election (KTV)
• Petrovic: We were promised the reserved seats (Klan Kosova)
• EULEX Police searched house of a Serb in Zubin Potok (All monitored broadcasters, RTK1)
• 285 former MUP members integrated in Kosovo Police (Most monitored broadcasters, RTK1)
• CEC chairperson annuls contract for expensive cell phones (KTV)
Vulin: New gov’t will not change policy on Kosovo-Metohija (Tanjug)
KOSOVSKA MITROVICA – Aleksandar Vulin, Serbia’s minister in charge of Kosovo-Metohija (KiM), has said on Thursday that a new Serbian government, which should be formed by the end of the month, will not change its policy on the southern province. “That will be the policy of non-recognition of the unilaterally proclaimed independence of Kosovo, and […]
Read More →We’re talking about 1,090 children! (Koha)
KTV editor-in-chief Adriatik Kelmendi argues in his opinion piece that all war crimes suspects need to appear in court regardless of their ethnicity, religion, gender or age. “All individuals who are found guilty of crimes need to receive the merited punishment. The same should apply for all countries of the former Yugoslavia. Justicia, the Roman […]
Read More →OSCE: Cultural heritage must be protected (KIM radio)
OSCE Mission in Kosovo calls for better protection of cultural and religious heritage in Kosovo and better cooperation between local and central authorities. The OSCE report labeled ‘Challenges in Protection of the Immovable Material Cultural Heritage in Kosovo’ brings that number of incidents against the religious objects had increased in the last year, when 87 […]
Read More →Progress in harmonizing statutes of northern municipalities (lajmi.net)
Besnik Osmani, secretary general in the Ministry for Local Government, told the news agency that there has been progress in harmonizing the statutes of the four northern municipalities. He said he believes these municipal assemblies will respect the deadline and that there will be no need to repeat elections there. The four northern municipalities had […]
Read More →Krasniqi: Nikolic was part of Milosevic’s politics (Telegrafi)
Kosovo Parliament Speaker, Jakup Krasniqi, wrote a reaction for Die Presse following remarks made by Serbian President Tomislav Nikolic in an interview for the paper. “In 1998, the United Nations Security Council, adopted several resolutions expressing concern over the risk of a humanitarian catastrophe in Kosovo as a result of violence carried out by Yugoslav […]
Read More →In Rudnica started demolishing of the building located over the mass grave (Radio Kosova)
Representatives of Government Commission for missing persons and Department of Forensics are staying in Rudnica, municipality of Rashka, to follow up demolishing of the building, which is located over the mass grave with Albanians in Rudnica. According to Kushtrim Gara from the Government Commission for Missing Persons, the demolishing works of the building will last […]
Read More →New protest over the law on general elections (RTK2)
Employees of the municipality of Gracanica ended their work, this morning for 15 minutes, protesting over the announcement on the adoption of the draft law in connection to general elections in the Assembly. Employees of the municipality of Gracanica in this way once more sent a warning to the public that the adoption of such […]
Read More →Kosovo Constitution Still Challenged in North (Balkan Insight)
Six years after Kosovo’s independence constitution came into force, authorities in Pristina are still struggling to implement it in the Serb-run north of the country. Edona Peci BIRN Pristina Kosovo President Atifete Jahjaga said the country’s “constitutionality and legality encompasses the whole of its territory, a country with functional and democratic institutions, based on all-inclusiveness. […]
Read More →Žbogar: Persons convicted by the tribunal will serve sentences out of Kosovo (Blic)
Last night Žbogar said to Television Kohavision’s program ‘Interactive’ that persons convicted by the special tribunal would serve prison sentences out of Kosovo. He voiced the expectation that Kosovo will sign the necessary agreement with Netherlands, in order to make this possible. He went on to say that eventual refusal of the Kosovo parliament to […]
Read More →Vekarić: The suspected EULEX prosecutor never worked with us (Blic)
Deputy war crimes prosecutor Bruno Vekaric denied today that the former EULEX Prosecutor Maurizio Salustro was adviser to Serbian prosecutor’s office, as the Kosovo media reported. Radio Television of Kosovo (RTK) conveyed today that Salustro and Judge Francesco Fiori are under investigation for corruption, taking bribes and abuse of power. Vekaric denied the Kosovo media […]
Read More →Both, Serbs and Albanians, waiting for the solution over missing (RTK2)
While the demolition of the building erected on the mass grave with buried Albanian victims in Raška is pending, Serbs are awaiting justice for Serbian victims, too. Preparations are ongoing for the excavation at location Rudnica near Raška, suspected of being the mass grave of Kosovo Albanians who went missing in 1998 and 1999. Head […]
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