Šešelj’s release “attempt to destabilize country” (B92)
BELGRADE — Serbian Labor Minister Aleksandar Vulin has said that it was Prime Minister Aleksandar Vučić who enabled for Vojislav Šešelj to return to Serbia. Vulin told TV Pink on Friday that while every citizen of Serbia has the right to medical treatment and care, there were also “attempts to use the arrival of Šešelj […]
Read More →Jacobson: Silly to say that monks have sprayed the graffiti (RTK2)
At a debate organized by the NGO Fol (Speak) the United States Ambassador to Kosovo Tracey Jacobson reflected on the latest incidents at Visoki Decani Monastery and said that she is glad that everyone has condemned spraying of the graffiti, and that Islamic Community of Kosovo has paid a visit to the monastery and showed […]
Read More →D-Day today (Gazeta Blic)
Today is the deadline which internationals in general and Americans in particular have given to political leaders in Kosovo to resolve the five-month long stalemate. Yesterday, leaders of political parties – Thaci on one hand, and Mustafa, Kurti, Haradinaj, and Limaj on the other – got caught off-guard by the sharp statement of the US […]
Read More →Pressure Grows to end Kosovo’s Political Stalemate (Balkan Insight)
07 Nov 14 Five months on from the elections, as Kosovo’s leaders come under increasing pressure to form a new government, an exit strategy from the current impasse has yet to appear. Nektar Zogjani BIRN Pristina The US ambassador to Kosovo, Tracey Jacobson, delivered a colourful message to Kosovo leaders on Thursday, using an expletive […]
Read More →“Bllaca 4” case opens, Azem Syla suspected (kohaonline)
Publishing of EULEX scandal has given results. Nazim Bllaca’s family has left Kosovo on Wednesday, for security reasons, reports Koha Ditore. It was sheltered at a safe place. EULEX has initiated investigations against a group, where deputy Azem Syla is involved. EULEX investigators interviewed the key witness of this process. The case was activated after […]
Read More →Arifi: The Bloc is not giving up on the Assembly speaker post (Kosovapress)
Advisor to Ramush Haradinaj, Avni Arifi, said that the post-election coalition bloc has not taken any decision to give up the post of Assembly speaker, as some media reported today. Arifi also said that the Bloc was supposed to meet this afternoon but the meeting is not yet confirmed as one of the Bloc’s members […]
Read More →On the likelihood (Koha Ditore)
Lumir Abdixhiku writes in his weekly column that the institutional stalemate seems to have taken on a wrong turn so much so that the patience of international partners is drawing to an end. This is not because everyone is at fault but everyone is part of the deadlocked situation and therefore everyone is getting the […]
Read More →Three Serbs acquitted of war crimes charges (Kim Radio, Tanjug, B92)
The mixed trial chamber of the Priština Basic Court acquitted on Thursday three Serbs of charges that they committed a war crime during the Kosovo war in 1999. Brothers Slobodan and Srecko Martinović and Svetlana Stojanović were acquitted of charges due to lack of evidence, Srecko Martinovićc’s lawyer Dejan Vasić told Tanjug. The Priština Basic […]
Read More →Representatives of Kosovo municipalities visiting Vojvodina (Kossev)
A multi-ethnic delegation of three Kosovo municipalities Dragaš/Dragash, Lipljan/Lipjan and South Mitrovica is visiting Vojvodina on Thursday and Friday. They will be accompanied by representatives of the Ministry of Local Administration and Self-Governance in the Kosovo government and Consultative Committee for Communities from the cabinet of the Kosovo President. This visit is organized in the […]
Read More →UNMIK Headlines 7 November
• Jahjaga calls for a solution (Kosova Sot, Koha Ditore)
• Bloc expected to give up claims on Speaker post (Koha Ditore)
• President not interested in elections (Kosova Sot)
• Serbian List fears protests (Tribuna)
• Hoxhaj calls for peace treaty with Serbia (dailies)
• Meucci pledges zero tolerance towards corruption (dailies)
• Court acquits three Serbs accused of war crimes (Kosova Sot)
OSCE Broadcast 6 November
• US Ambassador urges Kosovo leaders to reach an agreement (All monitored broadcasters, TV21, KTV)
• Mustafa: We will act in line with Constitutional Court’s verdict (Most monitored broadcasters, TV21)
• Vetëvendosje and AAK against extraordinary elections (Klan Kosova, TV21)
• Srpska List requests protection of minority communities (TV21)
• War crime charges dropped against three Serbs (TV21)
MEPs ask tough questions on EU mission in Kosovo (EUobserver)
06.11.14 @ 11:38 By Andrew Rettman BRUSSELS – Two senior MEPs have, in a letter to the EU foreign service, asked tough questions on corruption allegations against Eulex, the European rule of law mission in Kosovo. The letter – sent to foreign service chief Federica Mogherini on Wednesday (5 November) – says the European Parliament […]
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